Timeline of the New American Healthcare Bill (Graphic)

"A Timeline of the New Healthcare Bill (Graphic)"
Don't understand what is going to change or when? Here is a snapshot of key changes over the next decade to give you an idea of what is going to impact you and how soon it will take effect.

Discovered this charted timeline on Digg http://digg.com/d31Mcz1

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Social Media in the Workplace

A few years ago nobody had ever heard of Social Media - and yet now - its part of the workplace, just as much as the coffee machine

http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20100326/twitter-to-facebook-social-media-in-the-workplace/ 

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Abandoned sites & silence dangerous in social media mix

Social networks for brands play such an important role in customer relationships. What happens when those attempts to connect are no longer populated or silent? Impact?

http://brand-e.biz/silence-spells-danger-with-social-media_6400.html

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21st century about redistribution of work

People living longer & healthier - now what?

"The 20th century was a century of the redistribution of wealth; the 21st century will probably be a century of the redistribution of work," Vaupel 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100324142121.htm?

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Untitled

Is your company organised to optimise social media benefits in an enterprising way? http://ping.fm/C7oCM

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Google's new Visual & Social search engines

Google becomes more visual and personal as it develops ways to search using images instead of words - plus new ways to search your communities for what they're doing.

Go to BBC to read the original article.

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Employees Disregard Company Policy on Social Media in Order to 'Get the Job Done'

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0599411.htm

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UK Elections Debate2010 Largest Online Polling Forum

Salesforce.com and Telegraph Media Group Launch Debate2010 just ahead of next elections in the UK. 

Will this engagement in crowdsourcing social issues reflect true public opinion - or just that "slice of life" profile of eager participants?Will be interesting to compare the sourced predictions to the actual results. Looking forward to observing what issues rise from Debate2010.  

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/salesforcecom-and-telegraph-media-group-launch-debate2010-88891447.html

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18 Use Cases Social CRM - New Rules Framework

Altimeter Report: 18 Use Cases Social CRM, The New Rules of
Relationship Management It is all about engagement and profiling.

From Jeremy Owyang at Altimeter Group "Don't know how to approach Social CRM? Start with this framework. This key framework is from the report "Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management" From the Altimeter Group, in March 2010."

Read the full report and develop a strategy around Social CRM.

Stepped out of TallyFox....

I stepped out of TallyFox & into the sunshine - back to purposeful collaboration & appreciation - a great start to Spring

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Apple patents new mobile social networking technology called iGroup

http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Apple-patents-new-mobile-social-networ...

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Survey shows extent of social networking addiction

http://www.bartlesvillelive.com/content/weirdnews/story/Survey-shows-extent-o...

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Mozilla Labs builds add-on to bring address book to Firefox

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/mozilla-labs-builds-add-on-to...

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BBC iPlayer to link with social networks

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a209612/bbc-iplayer-to-link-with-s...

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Business networking sites coming of age

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7482116/Have-business-networking-sites-...

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Now you see it: scientists create invisibility cloak in 3-D

Scientists create the first cloaking device to render an object invisible in three dimensions.

Go to BBC to read the original article.

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Street Art "Moo"

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Portugal

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Cactus blooming in Albuquerque

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Posting from iPhone

This is an experiment to check blogging software.

Only problem is no way to include images.

Posterous - post everywhere

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Dead simple posting through site, by email or iPhone app.
Tried it yet?

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Global Travel Sites for Taxi's & Hotels

Two new travel tools are now part of my travel toolkit. I recommend them for everyone who has to travel to many different cities in different countries.

First, the International Taxi Fare Calculator. Taxi costs vary from city to city. Even though this site is still in Beta, it can calculate your fare from airport to accommodation in major cities listed in their drop down menu. I've used it a few times already, and it has been pretty close to what I've had to pay.


The second recommendation is Wotif.com to find amazing accommodation deals at GREAT RATES for a broad range of hotels, motels, apartments, resorts and bed & breakfasts around the world. You can even book last-minute for rates you would never expect - at 5 star hotels as well. They are taking the empty rooms and managing "room sales".


Would like to know how you've experienced these.

Start-ups - the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Everyone is looking for the next big thing. Business organizations use their experience on all levels to take advantage of trends, indicators, brand behaviour and assessments to identify the perfect gap to fill.

What do start-ups do?

No start-up is the same, except in their naiveté.

My experience in helping start-ups or participating in them is that it should be all about the people and how to mobilise their expertise. A start-up is a joint venture at its most basic level. What is the inventory of each person's assets in four arenas - personal, relationships. creativity and knowledge, and material? How have they applied those assets in the past? What is the potential for applying those assets in the future? What assets do they have that are not yet valued? Look for the demonstrated and forensic evidence that each person can contribute something necessary to actually build a business around a great idea.

After that, it's all about how well they work together and learn how to handle situations together. Are they solo players or team players? Have they identified the essence of their brand and its unique behaviour? Do they understand basic business practices and how to work as an organization to deliver that unique brand - including managing the relationships that will help build their business? Have they got evaluation criteria in place for making decisions together - and how much value those decisions generate?

Finally, who is going to ground the pie-in-the-sky big idea into a working framework with blueprints to actually build and grow a business around that idea? Who is going to position that idea with the right communication so that everyone who needs to know about the idea will be drawn into the business of that idea? Who is going to lead the people and the business in the direction it needs to go?

What do start-ups do? What's your experience - the the good, the bad and the ugly?

Periodic Table of Typefaces

I really enjoy people turning their ideas into Periodic Tables. Here's a new one thanks to Download Squad: Periodic Table of Typefaces

Awhile back I also posted the Periodic Table Printmaking Project and a Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.

Aha! Twitter Is Personal

When I first decided to make the plunge and start Twittering (actually pushed by some serious users), I thought I would do that as @quantumbrands. Branding, technology, and social media are woven together by people and their communities. It became very quickly obvious that I needed a business Twitter and a personal Twitter.



We see the world through such a different perspective in our roles in business than through our human being roles of just being ourselves. I have contact with different groups of people in business - and follow them for different reasons. With Twitter @colbystuart, I reach more lofty ideals and more conscious choice about my personal interests and fascinations.

Are you Twittering in different identities? Why?

EnlightenNext - Magazine for Evolutionaries

"EnlightenNext - The Magazine for Evolutionaries" is sharing a digital version of its December 2008-February 2009 edition. Definitely worth a read for inspiration and to provoke some new thinking on evolutionary processes.



Their own description of the magazine: "Through in-depth interviews and insightful cultural analysis, EnlightenNext offers new ways of thinking about ourselves, our world, and the future we are here to create."

After you read it, ask yourself "What did it awaken in me?"

A Deep Breath, A Fresh Beginning

I'm sitting here enjoying a cup of tea. The installer has just moved the telephone line from the old studio to my flat - a temporary solution until I find a new work studio. It's quiet, and I feel relaxed and reflective.

What a change from this upheaval of 2 months of moving out of our work space. We've unloaded so much "stuff" that no longer served a purpose in our lives or our way of working. It creates more space - to think, to do, to create.

Creative Awareness

I want to do for myself and my business partner what we've been doing for clients for years - re-purpose and re-launch our brand. When you've been in the creative industry of communication, advertising and media for 30+ years, you need a fresh look at the world and your role in it. We want Quantum Brands BV to have real meaning for our clients - and to create more virtual work and learning environments. We want to build on the values that have meaning for us: creativity, adventure, wisdom, joy, passion.


poster www.MarkAndrewWebber.com

Today, I am making a list of things I really enjoy doing. ( I already have that list of things I never want to do again.)

I am also reading through the blogs I've aggregated in Bloglines with pleasure - seeing what catches my eye and my interest. What's hot? What's not?

Though I will continue to dedicate much of my time to Kids 2020 Foundation, I need to discover the kind of work that gratifies the soul of my creativity. Without that, how I can expect myself to inspire others?


What are you doing that really awakens your creativity and brings you to life? Take a deep breath...and...

Trend Map for 2009

Ross Dawson posted a fascinating explanation of a multi-tenacle hydra trend-map for 2009. He identifies the vital trends, risks and danger zones for 2009. Ross is Chairman of the Future Exploration Network, whose Chief Futurist - Richard Watson of What'sNext - created this Trend Map for 2009.

Ross Dawson has identified the following themes :
"SOCIETY: Search for control, enoughism
TECHNOLOGY: Simplicity, Telepresence, Gesture based computing
ECONOMY: De-leveraging, 2-speed economies, Shorter product lifecycles
ENVIRONMENT: Bio fuel backlash, Negawatts, Nuclear power
POLITICS: Virtual protests, Globalisation in retreat, Immigration backlash
BUSINESS: Networked risk, Transparency, Asset price uncertainty
FAMILY: Debt stress, Allowable luxuries, Middle class unrest
MEDIA: Flight to quality, Facebook fatigue, Skimming, Micro boredom"

You can find a larger version of the Trend Map posted on Cambodia4kids.org's photos on Flickr.

Grab a cup of tea and take the time to really explore the Trend Map and Ross Dawson's explanation.

Anthropological introduction to YouTube

A message about communication and media - an expression of the times.

This is the story of the impact of social media and what creates meaning for people - and how people choose to express that.

Book on High Speed Networks & Social Computing

The Tower & The Cloud - Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing is an e-book that addresses high speed networks and social computing, two powerful forces that have been shaping our economy and our lives. This is extremely relevant in the context of not only learning, but also in the scope and implications of the global financial debacle we are facing.

This industrial scale computing - consider the global financial networks - has implications that are far-reaching in their impact. Human beings have limits in their levels of competency in their standards and practices when dealing with computational environments. They do not meet the oversight practices required for such highly advanced networked technology. We tend to compartmentalize how we deal with these standards and practices.

This leads us to ask very weighted questions.
"Who is actually responsible for the oversight of this?"
"Do they really comprehend the complete dynamic of what humans are capable of understanding and what realistic compliance practices they can put into place to evaluate the implications of such a global financial network?"
Perhaps, more importantly, "Who is teaching our children the evolutionary practices they need to cope with advanced computational networks?"



The Tower & The Cloud - Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing awakens insight into these issues. It is available for download as an e-book - according to Common Cause agreements - or purchase of the hardback

Kids 2020 Beta Website Live!

I've been back and forth the USA quite a bit this year. We've been trying to get a prototype for the Kids 2020 Learning Programme in place. In the meantime, we've also been hard at work trying to get the website ready to open to the public.

In my role as Chairperson for the Kids 2020 Foundation, I proudly announce that today, parts of the Beta 1.0 version of the Kids 2020 website are now live.



We appreciate any feedback you would like to share with us. Of course, the site is very limited at this time. We are only a small group of volunteers making small steps forward.

Many, many thanks to Hans, Marcel, Gwyn, Sierd, and Rob. They have shared their expertise and shown their dedication to bringing Kids 2020 alive online.

Firefox Download Day is Today!

Spread the word to everyone! Firefox would like to break the Guinness world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. Mozilla's Firefox Download Day 17 June 2008 is harnessing the power of social networking for this viral campaign.

The launch download begins at 10 am PST, which is 19:00 this evening in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

NOTE: Mozilla broke the Guinness Book of World Records record - 8 MILLION people downloaded Firefox3 within 24 hours