Workplace Learning in the Digital Age
Dr. Donna Murdoch
Up until now, I thought throttling bandwidth was an urban legend. Looks like that might not be so. From GigaOm. “Peering disagreements aren’t fun or consumer-friendly, but they might be the reason consumers’ video streams are suffering. New data purports to show much an effect these fights are having on your broadband.”
This are amazing. Business cards that can be easily scanned into any smartphone. “The TouchBase cards—which feel exactly like any other business card—are embedded with a distinct pattern of conductive ink that mimics a multi-touch gesture on a smartphone’s display.” From Gizmodo.
via Your Smartphone’s Touchscreen Can Read These Magical Business Cards.
This is from the NYT this morning about Facial Recognition. We’ve been reading about how its application will be location-oriented, in aisles where we are standing to push us specials etc. This is new for me. People most likely to spend money. “Facial recognition technology, already employed by some retail stores to spot and thwart shoplifters, may soon be used to identify and track the freest spenders in the aisles.”
This article from The Next Web talks about using “tactics” vs “strategies.” But when it boils down to it, they are only bandaids. Relationships are the only way to build a business. “The only way to ensure what you’ve made has the traction it needs to take off is to bring your own people to the party.
That way, if the party needs to change location, everyone’s game to move it elsewhere with you. You can’t stand by the punchbowl and cross your fingers, hoping people show up. You have to invite others.
But before even that, you have to actually make friends and foster relationships. Really, you have to build a following of people that like what you do. People that would benefit from what you’ve made and maybe, just maybe, like it enough to tell other people they know.”
via Strategies vs. tactics: Which is best for growing your audience? – The Next Web.
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 