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There is so much unverified 'noise' on the web that it is difficult to know what to trust. Storyful attempts to provide some veracity to video stories.

Article relevant for the Winter Workshop  on 3rd December organisational change - making it stick'. S

Dr Garcia is one of our KIN speakers at the Winter Workshop  on 3rd December organisational change - making it stick'. She will take a look at taken-for-granted assumptions underpinning current organisational and managerial practices and behaviour

Gamification still seen as 5-10 years out from its plateau, but also dangerously close to the Trough of Disillusionment.

We seem to be on the Slope of Enlightenment, which is a good thing? Phil - one for your Quarterly Workshop?

"Despite the sobering economic shocks of recent years, the Fun at Work movement seems irrepressible. Major companies boast of employing Chief Fun Officers or Happiness Engineers; corporations call upon a burgeoning industry of happiness consultants, who'll construct a Gross Happiness Index for your workplace, then advise you on ways to boost it."

"Gamification, as research firm Forrester defines it, is "the insertion of game dynamics and mechanics into non-game activities to drive a desired behavior." To be successful, businesses need to engage their communities in ways that match business goals, whether that's by increasing communication with employees and customers, reducing support costs, or promoting a greater sense of community and recognition."

"Gamification can turn otherwise unpleasant tasks like data analysis, setting through data, paying attention to specific code and other intense activities that can be quite tedious and boring and turn them into something fun. This is why Gamification is such a hot trend in technology because it can truly reinvent work."

"A little more than a year ago, Gartner said gamification was being "driven by novelty and hype" and that by 2014, 80 percent of current gamified applications will "fail to meet business objectives primarily because of poor design.""

Collaboration is a mindset and set of skills. It is also a messy and occasionally frustrating activity, and in the short term can even take longer than not collaborating. But long term, effective collaboration provides far stronger results. But to get there, we must first take a look at ourselves.

As Yammer integrates more with Office 365 there seems little point, and little desire from Microsoft, to keep it as a separate product. This isn't to put Yammer down - it's a good tool, has many thankful customers and fulfills a real need for many. But it's clear that Microsoft sees Yammer features (or features inspired and powered by Yammer technology) as parts of Office 365.

"How easy is it to deceive people with visualization?"

Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at WBS looks at how mental manipulation can be backed by good intentions - but when used with stealth, it is deceitful and wrong. Nudge theory will be one of the talks at the KIN Winter Workshop

the Diigo team aims to evolve Diigo into the best personal knowledge management system (PKM) on the market, providing unsurpassed capabilities for the collection, compilation, organization, digestion, presentation and collaboration of knowledge and information.

Most intranets are an absolute and utter joke. Enterprise search is pathetic. Why? Because today's management culture has no interest in making the work lives of -particularly its knowledge workers - easier and more productive. In fact, management practice often heaps more complexity and awful, unusable systems on top of frustrated, overwhelmed employees.

Humans are biased, and the biases we encode into machines are then scaled and automated. This is not inherently bad (or good), but it raises the question: how do we operate in a world increasingly consumed with "personal analytics" that can predict race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, health status and much more.

BM's Watson Artificial Intelligence System is capable of searching across vast repositories of unstructured data and returning answers to natural language queries, but it won't replace humans. Instead, the system will augment humans and help us to make better decisions.

You've probably encountered the usual issues of group decision making… People who dominate the conversation, quiet people whose ideas never get heard and all those post-it notes you have to write up. GroupMap solves this by capturing individual thinking first, then reveal the group perspective, all in real-time. Now that's true collaborative decision making.

Many companies are seeing that the future of deep learning is here, and that it doesn't require a lot of money or resources to take advantage of this new industrial science. IBM's Watson Analytics offers a freemium service that allows you to upload up to 500MB, and enables you to explore your own real-life applications for deep learning. Inputting Google Adwords or other sales metrics into this tool can help even startup companies find relational and predictive information in their data.

"Here we present four specific approaches to the creation of what we call digital "hives"-electronic hubs bristling with collective activity and designed to solve a particular problem or set of problems, to drive new habits, and to encourage organizational change (exhibit). Digital tools to facilitate networking and collaboration propel these "horizontal" cascades, which at their best can weave new patterns of engagement across geographic and other organizational boundaries. In this way, they make it possible to have new conversations around problem solving, unlock previously tacit knowledge, and speed up execution. "

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