Multilingual Commentary System For GPS Tour Entertainment

The Multilingual Commentary System features our fun and entertaining audio narratives delivered in several languages simultaneously. The commentary for each Point of Interest (POI) on the tour route is triggered by the GPS position of the tour vehicle in respect to the POI. Once our system is set to your tour route, you can count on it to run automatically, and consistently on each trip without the need for ongoing adjustment or maintenance.

Read more here.

The evolving models of engagement and support for national membership organizations

If you work at an advocacy organization, or support them, have you encountered new challenges in attracting members, keeping them engaged, and attracting their donations? Many people we’ve spoken to have had that experience, and as a result we’ve recently completed a national study of member-based advocacy organizations called “DISRUPTION: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support.”

Read more at Working Wikily

Apple iCloud/iOS: Killing SMS Softly? - STL Partners / Telco 2.0 Research

Extract from this 32 page Telco 2.0 Executive Briefing that can be downloaded in full in PDF format by members of the Telco 2.0 Executive Briefing service here.

12 Content Curation Platform Must Haves

Guidelines for content curation here.

The Power of Story

In quick summation, a great story is…

1.) Irresistible - Drama and conflict draw us deeper into the story.

2.) Believable - Cultural relevance and empathy. You can’t change minds until you see how the audience sees the world.

3.) Unforgettable - Feelings, thoughts and desires of the unconscious mind drive decisions. Emotions lead to action more than reason. Stories drive behavior.



YouTube - TEDxVancouver - Greg Power - The Power of Story

How Social Ventures Can Produce Profits

Edelman cites declining trust that the government can solve our social issues as one explanation for this call to businesses and individuals to step up. In its March/April brief, TrendWatching suggests that practicing Random Acts of Kindness is a winning strategy for businesses. While this may seem like the kind of thing only big corporations can afford, there are many small businesses taking advantage of this cultural shift to differentiate their businesses and make a difference in their communities. (We just published a small-business guide to starting your own social venture.)

Read more at NYTimes.com

Monetizing Your Knowledge

One of the great strengths of the intangible capital (IC) perspective is the lessons it gives around business model and organizational sustainability. The IC Value Drivers Report for this services company provides a great example of this. By way of background, IC Value Drivers include ten categories of the intangibles that are create the unique competitive advantage of companies today.

Read more here.

Connecting arts audiences online

The digital era has brought exciting changes to our lives, and certainly to the arts. Our previous research, More than bums on seats: Australian participation in the arts, found that one in three Australians is using the internet to engage with the arts in some way, confirming it as a key opportunity for our sector.

Read more here

The Adaptive Social Business Framework

Linear approaches to enterprise collaboration and/or social CRM aren't pragmatic or realistic. Organizations looking to implement either customer-facing or employee-facing social initiatives (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0 and social CRM) need an adaptive social business framework.

Months of interviews with clients and organizations, case study research, and observations has led to the development of the following social business framework

Where good ideas come from...

Tapping new revenue opportunities with IP management software

By 2014, two-thirds of Fortune 500 enterprises will design open innovation networks to engage employees, customers, business partners and Web communities, according to a February 2011 study by Gartner Inc. titled Use Innovation Network Design to Unleash Open Innovation. Cross-enterprise teams will require that their respective companies’ intellectual property (IP) is readily accessible on an as-needed, confidential basis. As a consequence, access to royalty and licensing structures and forecast models will be needed to make sound financial decisions.

Read more here.

The Innovation Matrix Reloaded

This is a bit of a distillation of observations over time. I thought of it because I think that a lot of people that are trying to improve innovation within an organisation think that they can go from the bottom left (No Innovation Capability) to the top right (World Class Innovator) in one jump, simply by introducing some sort of innovation program. I think that this is impossible – that you actually have to make the trip in a number of steps, and that there are many different paths that you can take.

Read more at Innovation Leadership Network

Handbook of Collective Intelligence

Handbook of Collective Intelligence - MIT - Tanagram Posterous

Select Resources on the Commons and Commoning

Select Resources on the Commons and Commoning - School of Commoning Events (London, England) - Meetup

Online course on Commoning

the 5 commons

Open design communities, entrepreneurial coalitions, and the partner state

The new institutional reality could be described as follows... Read more atOpen Knowledge Foundation Blog

7 Tips for Finding Stories in Your Organization

1. Ask about moments of emotion.
2. Ask for the stories behind the words.
3. Plot stories on a timeline.
4. Ask for superlatives.
5. Play with objects.
6. Use visuals.
7. Create a Living Circle.

Get the full explanation at PhilanTopic

Using Gowalla to Create a Historical Narrative

Heritage attractions take note of > this project

Justifying public libraries...

Good resource at Public Libraries News

How To Start Your Business On The Cheap

Good advice at Business Insider

Microsoft+HTML: The antidote to iOS and Android

The mobile app development world is changing rapidly. Yesterday, it was Apple's market and today it is Google's. Tomorrow, it could be the mobile web's market to lose, but a great deal of work would need to be done to enable the web to displace native platforms like Android and iOS. Microsoft might be able to help, but first it needs to figure out its on-again, off-again love affair with the web.

Read more at The Register

Tell your story in 7 steps

Lots of prompts to get you thinking, with a step by step process... StoryStarter is worth a look!

15 sites web developers and designers should know

Awesome list at CatsWhoCode.com

Create & launch mobile/web applications easily without knowing the programming

Check out ListenVoice
Free app development until November 2011

Collective Curation

10 Principles of Inspiration

1. Inspiration is our natural state but we are usually unaware of it

2. Lies kill inspiration, Truth ignites it.

3. Inspiration originates from neither the body nor the mind. It arises from a deeper dimension than perception.

4. A message's authencity and perceived relevance are the two critical factors that determine its inspirational potency

5. Inspiration cannot be forced. The best one can do is create proper conditions by being authentic and by strategically removing barriers to its emergence.

6. Inspiration actions are intrinsically enjoyable, breeding repetition and a sense of ownership. All sustainable behaviours derive from inspiration ( rather than force or persuasion.)

7. Inspiration must ultimately lead to measurable real world- results or it will backfire, over time, creating a deepened sense of cynicism and resignation.

8. A sender's own intentions infuse the message with a quality that calls for a similar matching frequency in the receiver. This is the law of resonance.

9. When the guiding intention behind message stems from the sender's identification with self as source, rather than effect, the receiver will generally perceive the message as authentic.

10. Sustained inspiration adds constant creative energy to a person's mental system which ultimately produces a wholesale transformation of their world-view. This process is ongoing basis for mankind's mental and spiritual evolution on both a micro ( personal) and macro( global) level

"Ten Universal Principles of Inspiration" by John Marshall Roberts - Edward Harran

25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time - Smashing Magazine

Designing For The Future Web

We are increasingly orienting our online experience around services rather than search engines. Services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are becoming the hub for our online life, and we are blending them to create our own unique Web of content: Facebook for our social life, LinkedIn for our professional life, Spotify for music, Netflix for television and film. We’re seeing a very different form of information consumption here, one in which we expect information to be pushed to us through our social circle, the people whom we trust. We’re moving away from the old paradigm of information retrieval, in which we are expected to seek information using search engines and links.

Read more at Smashing Magazine

Examining Corporate Social Media Policies

Advice, with links to 14 different corporate social media policies at The FASTForward Blog

Enterprise 2.0 : From Tools To Platforms To Ecosystems

In 2006, Andrew McAfee’s article on Enterprise 2.0, along with subsequent works, helped organizations think about how people use social software to more effectively share information and connect with one another. With an initial focus on tools (e.g., blogs, wikis), organizations undertaking “E2.0” initiatives began a long journey to improve the way employees build communities and collaborate on business activities. In parallel, early success stories highlighted the need for organizations to address cultural dynamics that often hinder these transformative efforts. While business objectives driving E2.0 projects were often “soft” (lacking measurable ROI), the intent generally could be aligned to overall needs to improve productivity, growth, and innovation. Today, the challenges of culture and metrics remain persistent issues for the industry, but there have also been two significant technology-oriented transitions that are worth noting:

• A shift from tools to platform
• An expansion from platforms to ecosystems

Around 2009, organizations began shifting their deployment tactics away from separate best of breed tools and towards platforms. While specialized tools offered individual value, their collective use resulted in a more complicated infrastructure with redundant functionality over time as vendors added features already existing in other tools. Relying on a potpourri of tools also resulted in an inconsistent user experience and perpetuated the information silos organizations sought to reduce. Adoption of a “platform approach” consolidated tools into a common set of services and infrastructure. It’s important to note that a “platform approach” does not mean a single vendor – the approach pre-supposes an architected framework that unifies tools and applications into a cohesive, modular, standards-based environment that provides for extensibility and interoperability with other systems. Consolidation helps deliver a consistent user experience, aggregate information into an assessable environment, and streamlines operational management while reducing functional overlaps and infrastructure complexity. A platform approach also helps centralize people, content, and data administratively so that policy can be applied consistently.

In 2011, we are witnessing the next market shift – the expansion of vendor and platform capabilities to support a broader array of services important to developers, partners, professional services, system integrators, and ISV’s – as well as new distribution channels (e.g., app stores). Platform ecosystems represent a new level of market maturity. It means that collections of interlocked business models are taking shape around a vendor’s platform to provide greater (and deeper) levels of lifecycle support for solutions enabled by the underlying technology. The shift towards ecosystem means that buyers will assess a vendor’s capability to sustain a thriving ecosystem in addition to the resources necessary to sustain technology advancements. While this trend presents enormous opportunities, it also challenges the original scoping of Enterprise 2.0. E2.0-related solutions were originally envisioned as being better situated towards community and social networking scenarios than more traditional business activities. That’s no longer the case. Ecosystems surround a platform blend into other solutions that may only be tangentially associated with Enterprise 2.0. We now see the result of “social” becoming more generalized in the market through use of hybrid terms to describe transformed business models (e.g., Social CRM, Social BPM, Social Business). This situation reflects the inevitable blending of different ecosystems as Enterprise 2.0 platforms become integrated into more complex, multifaceted solutions.

Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Enterprise 2.0 Five Years Later: From Tools To Platforms To Ecosystems

How to Use LinkedIn Today to Find Popular Content

A resource for putting your daily news in the context of your professional social network. Read more at ocial Media Examiner

Remix: making art & commerce thrive in hybrid economy

Remix

The state of free culture: Towards Institutions for the Cultural Commons

This loose global network of artists, cultural producers, political activists and scholars is spearheading a movement to enable culture to be free for all to express and enjoy and to prevent it from being enclosed through copyright and other regulations that are preventing access to what should be a cultural commons.

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive

Configuration

re: Online Community Management.... behold choconancy's configuration Bookmarks on Delicious

What is Web 3.0?

A good - if slightly over-simplified - introduction to the semantic web here.

Intertwingularity & the Noosphere

"Intertwingularity" is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge.

He wrote: "Everything is deeply interwingled. In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly..."

And on that note, here are a bunch of “cross connections among a myriad of topics” that are very much not divided up neatly.... The Noosphere: the 'thinking' layer of reality, sitting above the biosphere.

Read more at Hybrid Reality | Big Think

Digital Habitats

Stewarding technology for communities. Great site here.

The word of the minute is configuration: just spent an hour in a LinkedIn forum reading through 'configuration' issues amongst online community managers... then this front page of Digital Habitats includes “By configuration we mean the overall set of technologies that serve as a substrate for a community’s habitat at a given point in time — whether tools belong to a single platform, to multiple platforms, or are free-standing.”

Serendipity on the web.

Building a 21st Century Economy

Umair Haque > Eudaimonics

TourSphere

TourSphere™ is the most elegant and flexible way to build your tour application. Our web-based Content Management System allows you to create, publish and manage your apps on all smartphones and tablet devices.

TourSphere | Home

20 Effective Examples of Web and Mobile Wireframe Sketches

via SpeckyBoy

CDU Video production course starts soon

CDU Video Production course invitation from r1v1era on Vimeo.

Information/introduction night:
Monday 6th June 6-9pm

Course starts: Monday 20th June 6-9pm
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings 6 - 9 pm
COST: $283.5

CUFPPM404A Create storyboards
CUSSOU04A Record sound
CUFCAM301A Shoot material for screen production

Post production unit to follow: dates yet to be set.

*There are limited places available for this course.
Please contact CDU Multimedia Lecturer Ben Ward if you would like to enroll in this course.
email: ben.ward@cdu.edu.au
phone: admin 8959 5458

Useful Links: Dvize

Awesome colllection of links for managing the website development process via dvize melbourne

Tools for Facilitating Feedback on Prototypes and Wireframes

Cool tools at UX Booth

Create Online Surveys: Guide To The Best Free Services

Are you looking for a web-based service that allows you to create and publish a professional online survey? Do you need to create an online survey but are not too sure about what service to use? In this MasterNewMedia guide you can find the best available online survey services and some information to help you choose your ideal one.

The ROI of Curating Content on Twitter

The ROI of curating content on twitter is the influence gained from incrementally staying in sync with the tools and the culture while still listening to the mainstream point of view. Those bits and articles that we take in from Twitter bring the latest from the self-sorted group. Those we seek out from traditional media bring the outside view. On the edges of each and in between them is where the new thoughts come through.

Curating content gets us to listen too. The more we listen, the more we know. The more we know, the more we notice. The more we notice the more we can use to figure out what we need to know next.

Read more by Liz Strauss here.

Best Online Collaboration Tools 2011

Awesome list here.

The Newsmaster Toolkit: Content Curation Tools to Aggregate, Filter, Edit, Curate and Distribute Any Type of Content

Awesome collection of tools here.

Unleash your curation creativity: 4 cool storytelling tools

These are curation tools for publishing – in other words, not just curation as in filtering information for yourself, but curation in order to blog about some particular “story” or present content in a visually interesting way for other people to look at. For all of these tools, you pull content from your social streams and arrange them in a particular way, like…

Read more at SocialFish

Search Is Google’s Castle, Everything Else Is A Moat

Warren Buffet famously describes the best businesses as “economic castles protected by unbreachable ‘moats.’” Search is Google’s economic castle (perhaps with other forms of online advertising such as display thrown in there), and everything else is a moat trying to protect that castle. Android is a moat. The Chrome browser is a moat. The Chrome OS is a moat. Google Apps is a moat. These are all free products, subsidized by search profits, that are intended to protect the economic castle that is search. Gurley goes further and says not only does Google build moats around itself, but then it scorches the earth surrounding the moat...

Read more here.

Coalition Of The Willing

Coalition Of The Willing from coalitionfilm on Vimeo.

The Community Is The Organization

Communities exist because the individuals that participate get more out then they put in, scaling from very little value to significant value. In addition the value into and out of communities can be quite varied, some individuals contribute time, some money, some awareness and the value they get back out is often a mix of emotional satisfaction, money, recognition, wisdom, assistance, and relationships.

Hierarchies, because of their structure, always disproportionately reward those at the top levels of the hierarchy and disproportionately take from those at the bottom levels. It turns out that this does not result in producing good incentives for either those at the top (who will get rewarded because of their position alone) or those at the bottom (who will loose regardless of their effort).

My hypothesis is that those organization that can operate as communities will not only be more productive, achieving higher revenue with lower costs, but that they will also produce more of what Umair Haque calls thick value - that which accounts for externalities like pollution, employee burnout, etc.

More by Rachel Happe here.