danah spells her name in lower case, but everything else about her is upper case: Master’s in Sociable Media with Judith Donath at the MIT Media Lab , PhD at UC Berkeley School of Information advised by Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito , fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication , fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard, work at Yahoo, Intel, Google, and now Microsoft. Instead of coding, programmers built apps by mashing up shared packages of code. If a mashup produced a Frankenmonster, you threw it away and tried something else. Organizations. Teenagers. agree. MORE >>

The key piece is to establish, up front, a cross-functional Enterprise 2.0 core team made up of at least one member from HR, IT, Corporate Communications, Customer Facing Business Unit(s), Learning/Corporate University, Social Media (if you have one) and ideally an Executive Sponsor. According to the technology adoption life-cycle, that’s up to 13.5% At this point, we are up to 50% of the organization adopting the plan, past the so-called Tipping Point, and aligned with the technology adoption life-cycle too. I’m lucky to be a member of the 2.0 see figure two).  . MORE >>

One of the new evolutions in the digital content area is the mashup. A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience … via a public interface or API” (Mashup, 2006). Mash-up (web application hybrid). Not only is e-mail where knowledge goes to die (according to Luis Suarez ) but PDF’s are where entire articles go to die. This is a re-publication of an article I wrote that was originally published in April 2006 for ADETA , but is no longer available on their website. 2005). MORE >>

Tagging content and the Twitter/Pinterest/Facebook/Google+/Quora follower mechanism is also prevalent. It is attempting to mash up the user experience of current Web 2.0 You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: There are those who can’t avoid the temptation of beer, salt and sugary snacks at night and there are people like me who treat new learning and collaboration platforms infectiously. wish I could turn my eyes away from these calorie-induced sites or applications, but I just can’t. sites like Pinterest, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook. MORE >>

And let’s not forget other great ideas like 3D GameLabs  at Boise State University or of course Khan Academy and the recently launched  TED-Ed  or Google’s Search Education. Or possibly the online free courses can add up to an official credential at some point, but the student would have to purchase the actual articulation. This approach might even allow for the mash-up of a degree. You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: The higher education online learning gloves are now officially off. December 19  - MITx is announced . MORE >>