Words of wisdom from Bill Fenwick

In a meeting today, Bill Fenwick articulated a key point that was also deliberated at Campus 2010 retreat in Trinidad, “Participation in society in the future requires computer literacy. Almost all aspects of your life will be limited if you cannot access a computer. This could cause an explosion in the gap between the able [...]

Excerpts from “Developing an Effective Online Course”

“There are five rules that make up good writing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” —William K. Zinsser, author of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction “I am not a teacher but an awakener.” – Robert Frost, American poet Goal: Choose the best way to communicate information The goal of instruction [...]

Innovation requires respect- Top 10 ingredients for innovative teams

and 2 Rules for innovation management To feel good most humans need: – to be considered – to be recognized for their contribution – to be rewarded in often – to feel like members of the community What people hate: – to be disrespected – to have less qualified/deserving people rewarded – to be told [...]

Program for the Future Notes from the Lunatic Fringe

Ten Top Take-a-ways from The Program for the Future The Program for the Future met March 3, 2010 for a CoLABoration. Note: The tables at CoLAB had various affinity groups — education, government, health care, communications, business, technology — I asked to label a table “lunatic fringe.” Eileen Clegg describes it “as a popular if [...]

Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck?

Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck? Facebook Fan Page This facebook campaign really caught my attention, (and the attention of another 197,773 people) but I wonder, how we harness this mass frustration against Glenn Beck and convert it into a social/political movement towards change? Or is knowing we [...]

Program for the Future

Don’t miss the Program for the Future event on March 3

It’s about the journey

The best thing we could possibly do is not think that somebody is going to tell you what “the answer” is but somebody that says, “Here is a process that will help facilitate optimally that evolution.”

New paradigm for the new year

My goal is to help Web 2.0 move away from tiny tweets to slow dialog. May we use our collective intelligence to engage in meaningful dialog about the complex issues we face. May we use collective IQ to: improve our capability to portray accurate pictures of our current paradigm to produce a result that is [...]

Engelbart quote of the week

As a result of issues of scale, it is imperative that human and tool systems must co-evolve.

New Book by Douglas C. Engelbart, Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg

“Evolving Collective Intelligence” is now in print. http://www.engelbartbook.com After five years of dialog, writing and rewriting….we did it! Our book is out.