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A useful common-sense guide to effective posting on social media 

Staying ahead in the accelerating artificial-intelligence race requires executives to make nimble, informed decisions about where and how to employ AI in their business. One way to prepare to act quickly: know the AI essentials presented in this guide.

"I don't quite recall how it happened anymore, but in September 2008, I wrote a post for the Enterprise 2.0 blog titled Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War.  The post - probably the purest piece of deliberate flamebait I've ever written - went viral. Many of you found ribbonfarm via that post."

The implications of advancing technology to a point where its applications can mimic, assume or replace the role of people, to a point where humankind is no longer needed to guide such developments, leads to a multitude of questions about what this means for the future of society.

Many of ReadWriteWeb's readers are old hands at Twitter, but the service gets thousands of new users every day. That includes a lot of folks who suddenly need to use Twitter as part of their job. If you're just being introduced to the joys of Twitter (or introducing it to another user), here's a short and friendly primer on what you need to know about using the site.

"The problem is that too many 'lessons learned' programmes fail. Without falling into the trap of sweeping generalisations, I would suggest that more often than not the story itself is the problem; they just aren't interesting enough; they are shallow; they lack the richness that is needed to engage the intended audience; and they lack a structure that reflects the way adults learn. And that is the bottom line, all too often they just don't work in relation to the ways in which adults learn - I would argue in the vast majority of practice that there is actually little or no consideration for the the target audience of a lesson learned (the adult as a learner)."

"Thinking is hard - yet barely a waking moment passes when we're not labouring away at it. A few of us may be natural geniuses, able to work through the toughest tangles in an instant; others, blessed with reserves of willpower, stay the course in the dogged pursuit of truth. Then there's the rest of us. Not prodigies and a little bit lazy, but still aspiring to understand the world and our place in it. What can we do? In Intuition Pumps, Daniel Dennett, one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers, takes us on a profound, illuminating and highly entertaining philosophical journey. He reveals a collection of his favourite thinking tools, or 'intuition pumps', that he and others have developed for addressing life's most fundamental questions. Along with new discussions of familiar moves - Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum - Dennett offers cognitive tools built for the most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will. In his genial style, Dennett guides readers around the pitfalls in arguments, and reveals easier ways to better understand the world around us and our place in it. An enlightening and practical store of knowledge, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking will teach you to think truly independently and creatively."

You can start getting familiar with Watson Analytics by using the sample datasets provided in this community. These datasets have all been tested with Watson Analytics, and are the basis for many of the Watson Analytics demonstrations and videos. A description of each is below. To use the datasets, download them from the links below. Then, access Watson Analytics and from the Welcome Page, tap Add and add your data.

Book sgared by presenter Clive Shepherd at VT Masterclass

This technique is a way of gathering lessons learnt by encouraging project teams to talk about their experiences through stories. It builds and makes full use of this natural way in which we learn from each other and gain understanding about everyday life situations through storytelling

The After Action Review (AAR) is a simple tool pioneered by the US army which is now widely used in organisations to capture lessons learned. It is a structured review after an activity or stage in a project, including handover or close, that analyses what happened, why it happened, and how it can be done better. The key to successful AAR's is that it helps you turn mistakes and poor performance into learning opportunities.

The baton passing technique is a fast method for sharing, identifying high-impact lessons and gaining personal commitment to action. Baton passing can either be 'fast' - when based on clear lesson-themes - or 'slow' and more detailed when connected to a specific business process involving complex issues

Visualisation tutorials, guides and examples.

"The "big data, little brain" phenomenon is defined as managers who rely excessively on data to guide their decisions, abdicating their knowledge and experience."