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Near Field Communication (NFC): What is it and why should you care?

Near Field Communication (NFC): What is it and why should you care?

So not only will you be able to make payments from your phone – throwing your wallet out the window and creating extra space in your pockets for your hands – the same device will also contain your ID, railcard and all those frustratingly addictive membership and loyalty cards that you can never find when you actually need them.

Learning 2.0: How digital networks are changing the rules

Learning 2.0: How digital networks are changing the rules

To date, educators and policymakers have been considering how to integrate new media into education, but with the speed of innovation and the rapid adoption of the newer generation, the population may be better served if they were reflecting on how to prepare people to live with new media in purposeful way. In other words, simply learning how you can use the Internet to learn about the Renaissance is not enough, we must learn to paint a Sistine Chapel of our own.

Business Week: The Most Important People in Your Network

Business Week: The Most Important People in Your Network

Employees that were rated as more innovative didn’t have bigger networks; rather, they had more bridging ties—ties that connected them to other employees who were themselves not connected.

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If we are circulating too much with people we have known forever or people who themselves are all spending time in the same meetings and interactions, then we are not getting the performance impact we can from social-media tools. Bigger is not better. The magic lies in the new ideas and perspectives that can come from connections into different networks.

AIIM: Governance: Don’t Use it Loosely

AIIM: Governance: Don’t Use it Loosely

Sure, a committee of business leaders should be formed to vet ideas, opportunities, challenges, but ultimately a decision must be made. Groups of individual with competing interests have trouble making decisions. Thus, designating a single individual who ultimately can make the “final” decision is critical from our experience. Too many organizations soft-pedal this factor, which leads to drawn-out debates and inaction.

Iron Mountain: Obtaining an Information Advantage through Unified Records Management

Iron Mountain: Obtaining an Information Advantage through Unified Records Management

Records management is about organizing and classifying information for retrieval. This is part of the challenge with digital information because technology has made it possible for us to ignore indexing and classification since the digital format allows for sophisticated searching. Auto-classification is really an extension of this expectation, but has actually served as more of an excuse to allow for poor electronic records practices, hoping that auto-classification will one day be able to clean up the mess.

Reading: The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill

Reading: The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill

The story of a young Winston Churchill in 1897 fighting fanatical tribal warriors in modern day Pakistan–see his chilling description of what we hear all too often in today’s news:

Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence. The strong aboriginal propensity to kill, inherent in all human beings, has in these valleys been preserved in unexampled strength and vigour. That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword–the tenets and principles of which are instinct with incentives to slaughter and which in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men–stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism.
Wikipedia 

I haven’t read this book yet, but came across of a reference to it in my current team read at the office (The Mission, The Men and Me, more about that in a future post) and was delighted to find the free Kindle edition of the eBook on Project Gutenberg. I believe this is the hardcover edition depicted by the cover image above.