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		<title>What motivates you? Dan Pink knows and this video will blow your mind!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Pink, author of such awesome books as A Whole New Mind and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, released his latest book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us in which he lays out research about how the modern knowledge worker is motivated. Countering traditional models that emphasize compensation and bonus structures, Pink argues [...]


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		<title>The best systems are simple [TED video]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simplicity is something we desperately yearn for in areas from data visualization to technology. Yet these very areas often stray into more complex waters, becoming less usable the further they go. George Whitesides, who has a background in chemistry and various other sciences, seems uniquely qualified to help us find a definition of &#8220;simplicity&#8221; in [...]


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		<title>Improve Firefox&#8217;s spell check feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite features in Firefox is the built-in spell checker. Two recent tips I learned are worth noting to improve the power of this feature.
Change the way misspelled words appear.
The default red squiggly underline for misspelled words is often too subtle for me. So I really like this tip, courtesy of downloadsquad. To [...]


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		<title>Lost &amp; found: silver screen gems rediscovered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two recent NPR stories caught my attention for how they speak to a pervasive problem plaguing organizations like mine: loss of organizational history.
One story is about &#8220;Bruce,&#8221; the name given to the three giant fake sharks used in the movie  Jaws. After the filming concluded, all three models were lost and most likely destroyed. [...]


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		<title>An introduction to the &#8220;21st Century Web&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I asked for help identifying what web sites would be ideal for someone who had missed key advances on the Internet for the past several years. As a social software trainer, I teach a class designed to encapsulate the &#8220;latest and greatest&#8221; on the web in order to lay the groundwork for [...]


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		<title>Being the &#8220;hands on the keyboard&#8221; for your mentor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an enlightening conversation I had yesterday, a senior leader where I work said that as we continue to face the likelihood of losing a large percentage of our workforce to retirement in the next few years, the organization has essentially three options to prevent hemorrhaging knowledge:

Capture their knowledge (in a usable format) before they [...]


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		<title>A warning label for gadgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a post by Don Miller the other day that humorously petitioned for warning labels on gadgets. I have reposted the image he included on his blog because I found most of the &#8220;warning labels&#8221; funny and incredibly useful. What warnings would you want to see on your technology?



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		<title>Cool visualizations [data display done right]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share a couple of powerful infographics I came across a while back. These images are not only visually appealing, they convey a large amount of data that would otherwise would be fairly boring (and therefore ineffective). In fact, I won&#8217;t add complexity by including unnecessary commentary or explanation.
Enjoy! Click the images to [...]


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		<title>Cell phone commercials&#8230;from 20 years ago!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across these two classic commercials from the early days of the cell phone via Read/Write Web. I look over at my Android phone and marvel at the computing power contained within a device that size. Then I wonder what &#8220;mobile technology&#8221; will look like in another 20 years (my prediction is that [...]


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		<title>A stirring talk from a 12-year-old [TED video]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re anything like me, this 8-minute talk by 12-year-old Adora Svitak will have you smiling for a while. Her talk is insightful and strikingly articulate as well as humorous and down-to-earth. I hesitate to use other adjectives like &#8220;precocious&#8221; for fear I&#8217;ll belittle this child prodigy&#8217;s poise and intelligence, but Adora&#8217;s effervescent personality and [...]


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		<title>Going offline&#8230;or not [Chuck &amp; Beans comic]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gotta admit&#8230;this is what would happen if I ever even contemplated going off-line&#8230;  




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		<title>Life before Google&#8230; [hilarious comic]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine posted this Chuck &#38; Beans comic in the office this morning and I literally laughed out loud. As a constant and (insatiable) learner (just ask my wife), this nicely sums up my life prior to 1996 when I first discovered the web.



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		<title>A brilliant marketing scheme by Heineken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mashable reported this week about a marketing campaign executed by Heineken that involved a soccer (&#8220;football&#8221;) match and thousands of duped victims. Watch the video below and tell me if you don&#8217;t agree that this was an imaginative and perfectly executed practical joke.


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		<title>The Reality of Social Networking [make sure your kids see this video]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m one of the last people to raise the paranoia flag, but as a  social networking enthusiast and social software trainer, I have  a certain obligation to investigate the privacy issues around such web  sites. Recently, I&#8217;ve been talking with folks, reading, and thinking a  lot about privacy.According to a colleague [...]


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		<title>Get Yourself Schooled in Economic Theory [hilarious yet educational video]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine recently admitted she enjoyed (geeked out on) this YouTube video. Somewhat skeptical, I allowed myself to click through and&#8230; wow, these geniuses actually schooled me a bit in the &#8220;Dismal Science.&#8221; If you&#8217;re like me, the principles of macro economics (e.g., how our country continues to run in the &#8220;knowledge age&#8221;) [...]


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