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Thomas Van Der Wal. Social Tools Need to Embrace Granularity What we have is partial likes in others and their interests and offerings. Our social tools have yet to grasp this and the few that do have only taken small steps to get there (I am rather impressed with Jaiku and their granular listening capability for their feed aggregation, which should be the starting point for all feed aggregators). Part of grasping the problem is a lack of quickly understanding the complexity, which leads to deconstructing and getting to two variables: 1) people (their identities online and their personas on various services) and 2) interests. These two elements and their combinations can (hopefully) be seen in the quick annotated video of one of my slides I have been using in presentations and workshops lately.

Effective listening. Pattern recognition. TED video.

An archetype for 21C Cloud. Interview video with full text transcript.

"What I'm here to tell you is that if it's like school, it doesn't work." Great, highly entertaining message from a guy who has taught at Yale, Stanford, and Northwestern. ****

Peer-to-peer networking, 2:41 video

4:01 video

Jimmy Wales, video 3:51

Warren Bennis, video 4:18

Aart de Geus, video 5:07

50 well made short videos of business leaders giving advice

Tiffany Schlain's film, Connected. Trailer, video, 2.31

The BrainYard Lots of presentations

Weird to have BMW pushing walking. Megacities as efficient ways of living.

Amazon as great organizational architecture. Push the decisions to the base. The intelligence is out on the periphery. Empowerment through data.

Ignite is a rapid-fire form of presentation. The presenter must present 20 slides in 5 minutes. Every 15 seconds a new slide advances automatically. It is amazing how much information one can cover in 5 minutes if you boil the message down to essence. It takes me longer to prepare a 5-minute Ignite session than a one-hour presentation. And I suspect people retain more information when I've finished, too. Talk about making meetings efficient. Watch some of these and give it a try.

Terrence Garguilo on telling stories as a leadership competency.