Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The Global Mobility Network, a learning network I co-facilitate, discusses a range of topics around global workplace trends. Our most recent session Workplace To Zero? explored why we still need the expensive overhead of offices. Dr Frank Duffy, founder of DEGW, set the scene for the conversation.
Taylorist Buildings
He made the fascinating observation that Taylorist offices [...]

What This Post Is About
(1) Literature, art and history tell us that humans have always been connected.
(2) Social media give us new and evolving ways to connect, discover and inspire.

Evidence From The Middle Ages
I am currently reading Roads To Santiago: detours & riddles in the lands and history of Spain by Cees Noteboom. He describes [...]

I am grateful to Janet Clarey, industry analyst at Brandon Hall, for distributing a link to this Fast Company article, How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education.
If you are in any doubt about the business value of Twitter, this is an example of how it can be used to share business intelligence and keep [...]