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"What does it mean to socialize the enterprise? Often, the primary focus of this term is the outward-facing social media strategy of the company and/or the social collaboration infrastructure it uses. But in reality, these two aspects are just the tip of the iceberg. A socialized enterprise incorporates the entire stakeholder landscape and platforms for bridging these connections: the consumer-facing social media strategy of the company, collaboration within the organization and the way the company interacts with clients and, no less important, its external partners."

Tacit Knowledge speech by Dave Snowden "Keynote Speech at State of the Net 2012 (Trieste, June 22nd)"

""Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.""

As corporate leaders around the world seek to build sustainable businesses, there is no doubt that innovation lies at the heart of the solution. But there is a nagging question that's been cropping up in the debate: Does experience kill innovation? While there is no questioning the value of experience in many respects, there is a school of thought that looks at experience as an ever-expanding rear-view mirror that constantly draws attention to the path traveled, rather than the unknown and limitless possibilities on the way forward.

One of the liveliest debates raging in innovation circles today is: who really does the innovation? Does innovation come from extraordinary individuals following a personal vision, like Ahab searching for Moby Dick? Or does it come from exceptional teams working together with great synergy, like the Boston Celtics destroying the L.A. Lakers in 2008? The winner is…neither side, because there aren't only two answers to this question. There are actually five: solo innovation, duo innovation, posse innovation, organization innovation, and open innovation. Any of these can lead us to the Holy Grail of Innovation that we all seek.

Behavior is the unknowable variable in every innovation, and it is the variable that most determines the opportunity a new business model has to evolve and take advantage of the new behavior.

Games are fun-well, unless you're playing with your super-competitive friend. And we all have one, don't we? Still, for the most part, games are entertaining-and that's why gamification has taken off as a technique to entice people to adopt various applications and processes. Gamification is defined as the use of game design techniques, game thinking, and game mechanics to enhance non-game contexts. In other words, gamification gets people interested in something they otherwise wouldn't notice while also encouraging them to compete in game-like activities.

Before get ting started let's ask the question: What is Critical Thinking? It is the ability to make and carry out informed decisions by efficiently utilizing your lifetime education, knowledge, experience, common sense, reasoning, intuition, feelings, and confidence.

There is a big danger in judging things we don't really understand by how they appear. Unless you are really "in the loop," be wary of things that you see or things others tell you. Remember the old adage "Believe half of what you say, a third of what you see, and none of what you hear."

Education Secretary Arne Duncan declared August Connected Educator Month. For those educators who are interested in using game-based learning might like to join a community and connect with others already are endeavoring in the journey. Especially in the same subject, the exchange of experience will be very valuable for specific targets. This post is focused on online communities(part of the information is from ConnectedEducators.org)

An overview of Systems Thinking, and how to apply the ideas of Complexity Theory to management of systems, with the results being called "Complexity Thinking"

"Co-Creation allows companies to take the innovation process and turn it on its head. This methodology allows brands to take advantage of the growth of participatory culture and consumer influencers to navigate new market landscapes"

"RDFa (or Resource Description Framework - in - attributes) is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based document types for embedding rich metadata within Web documents. What does that mean? It means that RDFa give your content more meaning… it allows content to make sense to the search engines. Right now, when a bot crawls your site, it only picks up content and spits it back out - it has no idea what that content really means. With RDFa, the bots can now identify specific information through implementation of RDFa code and appropriate snippets. "

"This is a two-minute tutorial on Purpose in critical thinking. Purpose is one of the Elements of Thought. The information in the video is based on the work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder."

"The ability to distribute real-time information through social networks like Twitter is a powerful thing, but a new study points out that one of the downsides of this phenomenon is the fact that much of the content that gets linked to eventually disappears."

"Knowledge Sharing is the Learning, Learning is the Knowledge Sharing"

"Smart people are quick to call "all things social" hype because sometimes smart people filter everything through what they know rather than what they don't know."

"Welcome to the 21st century-where views on technology, work ethic and cultural diversity are strikingly different from generation to generation.  The complex dynamics of social interaction, standards for performance and long-understood patterns of behavior are under direct assault-if not washed away by the cross-generational tide. Each generation is leaving its own mark on its own terms, and disconnects between intention, action, and understanding can cause negative consequences"

"Virtually everywhere one looks we are in the midst of a transition for how we organize and manage information, indeed even relationships. Social networks and online communities are changing how we live and interact. NoSQL and graph databases - married to their near cousin Big Data - are changing how we organize and store information and data. Semantic technologies, backed by their ontologies and RDF data model, are showing the way for how we can connect and interoperate disparate information in ways only dreamed about a decade ago. And all of this, of course, is being built upon the infrastructure of the Internet and the Web, a global, distributed network of devices and information that is undoubtedly one of the most important technological developments in human history. There is a shared structure across all of these developments - the graph. Graphs are proving to be the new universal paradigm for how we organize and manage information. Graphs have an inherently expandable nature, and one which can also capture any existing structure. So, as we see all of the networks, connections, relationships and links - both physical and informational - grow around us, it is useful to step back a bit and contemplate the universal graph structure at the core of these developments. Understanding that we now live in the Age of the Graph means we can begin studying and using the concept of the graph itself to better analyze and manage our interconnected world. Whether we are trying to understand the physical networks of supply chains and infrastructure or the information relationships within ontologies or knowledge graphs, the various concepts underlying graphs and graph theory, themselves expressed through a rich vocabulary of terms, provide the keys for unlocking still further treasures hidden in the structure of graphs."