Workplace Learning in the Digital Age
Dr. Donna Murdoch
I’ve looked for these apps more than once. “If you want to manage them all through your iPhone or iPad, there are a number of podcast apps to consider. We tackled the problem back in 2011, but a lot has changed in the last three years – so here’s our updated shortlist.”
via 9 of the best podcast apps for the iPhone and iPad – The Next Web.
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 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.
From Wired Business – “According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is developing checkout systems based on its Kindle tablet, and these devices could appear in brick-and-mortar stores as early as this summer. Apparently, the project is a result of Amazon’s recent acquisition of engineers and technology from GoPago, a point-of-sale startup that struggled to escape the shadow of rival Square.”
via Kindle Cash Registers Could Let Amazon Track You in the Real World | Wired Business | Wired.com.
Apple is preparing to expand its presence in the mobile-payment space, according to a new report.
Makes good sense – so many iPhones, so many iTunes accounts already in place.
Choosing the right mobile devices for salespeople is not so much of an issue now that HTML5 has matured to a point where it is perfectly acceptable for most business apps. It\’s the app that matters, not the device. From ReadWrite.
via How To Manage A Sales Team In The Era Of Bring Your Own Everything – ReadWrite.
“Much like television is experiencing a diversity of new and niche content thanks to the change in distribution wrought by broadband, the enterprise is experiencing a similar explosion of software.”
Software and collaboration in the workplace, and new versions of well legacy software products via SaaS, for organizations. The network effect in the enterprise, explained by Gigaom.
From The Verge.
The wrong words.
That was the overwhelming message delivered to the FCC by the DC Circuit yesterday when it ruled to vacate the agency’s net neutrality rules. The FCC had tried to impose so-called “common carrier” regulations on broadband providers without officially classifying them as utilities subject to those types of rules, and the court rejected that sleight of hand. Most observers saw the decision coming months, if not years, ago; Cardozo Law School’s Susan Crawford called the FCC’s position a “house of cards.”
via The wrong words: how the FCC lost net neutrality and could kill the internet | The Verge.
“Instead of running a big booth on the show floor or unloading a bombastic keynote speech, Amazon made its presence known at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with decidedly more subtlety. It wedged a vending machine in between a Wells Fargo ATM and a scuffed-up door at the Las Vegas airport.”
via Kindle Vending Machine Shows How Amazon Could Take Over the World | Wired Business | Wired.com.
One of the nice things about CES is that it’s not just about the big, flashy booths from the major consumer electronics brands. There is also plenty of room for smaller startups to show off their goods. And while a lot of these things are either banal (yet another iPhone case) or odd (a connected barbeque?), you inevitably also stumble across neat little gadgets that are worth a second look. Here are three of them:
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