Workplace Learning in the Digital Age
Dr. Donna Murdoch
Glad to see others doing this! Good app to add to home screen.
“Despite Dropbox, Photostream, Reminders, and all other manner of cross-platform sharing options, I still find myself emailing important links, images, and documents to myself on a regular basis. Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it’s a hard habit to break.”
via Use This iOS Shortcut to Quickly Email Yourself Notes | WIRED.
As part of its big mobile push, Adobe opened up its SDK to allow third-party apps to tap into Creative Cloud, and Moleskine’s latest effort takes full advantage. Similar to its collaborative offering with Evernote, the Moleskine Smart Notebook uses your iPhone’s camera to capture sketches.
via New Moleskine sketchbooks beam your scribbles to Adobe’s Creative Cloud.
Conceptually, the goal has always been to make technology invisible. To many of us it is, though when we use the phrase “invisible” it means we just don’t notice it. If we are speaking with somebody on a cell phone, we don’t notice the phone. We think about the content, what we are saying, and the person we are speaking to. The phone is still in our hand, unnoticed, but visible (unless the phone isn’t working properly!)
In the new IoT era, the technology will be more embedded, more functional – yet truly invisible. This story from Wired is very accurate.
“How does one create an environment of “invisible technology”? Start by gaining a more complete understanding of all the facets that enable a product or service to operate. Break down any complexity by mapping each conversation that needs to take place between people and machines for the service to work well.”
via Rejoice: Tomorrow’s Tech Will Probably Stop Nagging Us | WIRED.
An incredible story about Pinterest and its huge user base, where 80% of the users are women. It’s huge, and the potential for revenue dwarfs that of many other popular social networks. This is from Forbes. “A visual social network where people create and share image collections of recipes, hairstyles, baby furniture and just about anything else on their phones or computers, Pinterest isn’t yet five years old, but among women, who make up over 80% of its users, it’s already more popular than Twitter, which has a market capitalization of more than $30 billion.”
via Inside Pinterest: The Coming Ad Colossus That Could Dwarf Twitter And Facebook.
Adobe has really turned around – super impressive line up of apps that support creativity. Apple shut them out of iPads with Flash, but their presence will be even greater with even more new tools that synch with Creative Suite. “Adobe’s new lineup includes apps in the Photoshop and Lightroom family, a new collection of Illustrator mobile software, a brand new Premiere app for using on the iPhone or iPad, and a new family of three apps that work across many of its CC apps to “capture” images, colors and design elements from the real world.”
via Adobe Debuts A Slew Of New Mobile Apps, Including Brush, Shape And Draw | TechCrunch.
From MIT Technology Review – the Internet’s influence on the Production and Consumption of Culture. There hasn’t been a change in basic business models, however culture can now be downloaded and enjoyed in private. This happened very quickly. “The Internet has been a disruptive technology for the arts and media, reshaping industries while introducing new ways to organize production and distribution. The Internet’s influence in the cultural industries depends, first, on the extent to which digital substitutes for analog experience are likely to satisfy consumers. Second, on the extent to which producers must maintain competitive profits. And, third, on the ability of incumbent firms to exploit changes inherent in digital production and distribution.”
via The Internet and the Cultural Industries | MIT Technology Review.
What would it be like to be a social media manager? What if it was your job? Interesting article on TNW shares a typical day.
“Would it help to know that you’re not alone with keeping such a varied schedule? That your time on social media is shared by others?”
I’m always in awe when I use Uber. Though many think of it as a service that disrupts cabs, I think the majority of people use it instead of alternatives – not cabs. When I speak to Uber drivers they tell me stories of picking up teens to take them from school, making deliveries, being the “designated driver” so nobody else has to, and of course driving people from here to there. People USE Uber, not as a default (oh, I’ll take a cab) but as an integrated part of their life. The CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, recently spoke at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference, told the audience that “Driver jobs” are an Uber-created metric used to quantify new drivers on its platforms. These jobs are global — Uber is available in 45 countries — and while they aren’t jobs in the traditional sense, they do signify opportunities for people to make money by picking up passengers through the app.”
via Uber Adding 50,000 New “Driver Jobs” a Month, Up From 20,000 in May | Re/code.
Fantastic article about applications for IoT with the aging population. GigaOm really gets it right.
“Aging in place is a killer application area for the internet of things. If you or your grandmother can control her lights and coffee maker from a smartphone or easy to use tablet, that’s great. It’s even better if you can be discreetly apprised of her level of activity and alerted if she doesn’t take her pills on time.”
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 