The Film Collaborative

I love a good list. The better the list, the more the love. I love this list of resources by the Film Collaborative very much.

What is Pervasive Entertainment?

Pervasive entertainment is entertainment untethered and unencumbered by time, location and reality. For those who like equations, here’s one:

• pervasive entertainment = ubiquitous media + participatory experience + real world + good storytelling

Pervasive entertainment becomes a living, breathing entertainment experience that continues without you – evolving, morphing, refining, improving, growing – even when you’re not watching. But the story has you hooked. The evolution of the experience has you hooked.

You know that if you turn on your mobile device they’ll be another piece of content to grip you further; to drive you deeper. Soon you’ll become addicted; crazy for another fix: a tweet, an email, a video, a puzzle, a PDF, a link, a blog comment…

…and when the content doesn’t arrive you’ll create it yourself. You’ll feed someone else’s addiction.

Read more at Transmedia Storyteller

How To Build An iPad Teleprompter For Under $5

Cool video at WebVideoUniversity.com

Teaching Online Journalism

This is the sixth post in a series titled “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.” In the fifth post, I explained why you should seek out and listen to online audio. Today I will show you how to post audio on your blog....


RGMP 6: Post an interview (or podcast) on your blog « Teaching Online Journalism

Avoiding half-assed knowledge management flops « ResonanceBlog

Knowledge management is part of most social business initiatives. Equipping employees, partners, suppliers and customers with knowledge to smooth operations makes complete sense – from building FAQs and content for use by customer service agents, to crowdsourcing ‘how tos’ from customers. We all know intuitively that the gathering, sharing and distribution of knowledge is important.

The trouble is, we tend to stop there; hence a bunch of failed knowledge management initiatives throughout the 90s to today.

The fact is, an estimated 70% of workplace learning is informal. Just because you post something somewhere on a technology platform doesn’t mean anything is going to change – not when the knowledge isn’t used and supported by people telling stories, by trial and error, by inexperienced people watching more experienced people, by constant coaching, by developing new products and practices off the back of it.

When looking at the capture and dissemination of enterprise knowledge as part of a social business strategy, an intranet revamp, or an HR initiative, considering the unbudgeted, unplanned, uncaptured tacit knowledge is the missing piece of the puzzle that will mean the difference between success and failure. This typically means stretching out the responsibility of whoever is contributing a piece of knowledge – to ensure they’re also responsible for embedding it in the organisation beyond uploading a file.

The final missing piece is philosophy, vision and values – i.e. not just what you know, but the way you see the world. So many organisations try to take knowledge and working practices from other successful companies and emulate them. Look at how many have attempted to copy the Toyota Production System (TPS); yet somehow, it doesn’t work. Why? Because TPS is a philosophy. It’s a perspective, a way of seeing the world, a way of thinking about quality, processes and people; not just a set of techniques.

Avoiding half-assed knowledge management flops « ResonanceBlog

Libraries as Knowledge Management Centres

This book focuses on the role of special libraries as knowledge management centres in their organisations. It describes the work of a special library and the special library draws on the characteristics that make the nucleus of collecting and organising knowledge which is used for the benefit of the institution. By acquiring and sharing knowledge, staff will enhance the intellectual capital of the institution. Traditionally libraries are the information centres that organise and classify information. Further on they are the proper places to create human networks and to organise the knowledge hidden in the minds of the staff. This book also examines methods to prove the value of a special library for the parent organisation when it becomes the centre to gather knowledge.

Key Features:

- Draws on the characteristics that make a special library necessary for an organisation

- Shows the importance of knowledge management in an organisational environment

- Provides ways to persuade the management of an organisation that the special library is the proper centre for knowledge management

- Describes the special skills and competencies required for a special librarian to put a knowledge management into practice project

- Presents the benefits for an organisation when it implements a knowledge management project

Read more at Yahoo! Finance

The transformative power of the arts in education

Confirming what we already know: The transformative power of the arts in education