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Microsoft’s Future Grounded in the Here and Now

Oct

2011

Microsoft have unveiled their vision of the future in a slick tube imaginatively titled Productivity Future Vision (2011). While the video showcases Microsoft “innovations” [rather than an actual vision of the future] some of the comments are timeless, ensuring this glitzy promo will be talked about for all the wrong reasons…

The Future of the Social Web: A New Hype-O-Thetical

Jul

2011

Is the social web a thing of the past? Like a good book you can’t put down, here is a tube in the same category: Elevation Partners Director and Co-Founder Roger McNamee presenting at The Paley Center For Media. Roger McNamee shares a number of compelling arguments that invite us to think about the social ...

Visions of the Future for the Social Web

Jun

2011

The Future of the Social Web Jeremiah Owyang posits on the development for the future of the social web…

How Executives Are Using Social Media by Mark Horton | The Future of Work

Mar

2011

MARK HORTON > THE FUTURE OF WORK | The time constraints on today’s executives are more numerous than ever before. Between the economic downturn, ever-changing industry regulations, fast-moving information and simple day-to-day management tasks, corporate executives are trapped in the virtual jail cell that is today’s business climate. The unintended result of executive “information-imprisonment” is ...

Curating Social Media Policies in the Workplace

Mar

2011

Ever since I started using WebCite a couple of years ago I have been interested in the idea of online curation. It seems that there has been a proliferation of curator services of late and a heightened sense of the potential benefits that come with the extraction and aggregation of content from tweets, Facebook, blog ...

Top Remote Work Trends to Watch for in 2011

Mar

2011

GIGAOM | Driven by improvements in technology — and particularly by an explosion in the availability of mobile technology and increased access to broadband — the world of work is changing rapidly. From solving employer-employee trust issues through better communication to cultivating an increasingly mobile, cloud-based workforce, here are the top trends and key issues ...

The Brain Series

Feb

2011

CHARLIE ROSE | The Charlie Rose Brain Series explores one of sciences final frontiers, the study of the human brain. We will also look at scientific discovery and advances in technology, in the hope that someday terrible illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s will be history.