Okay … it’s Sunday night in Minnesota. One must ponder heavy questions such as …
If issues like this have been bothering you for some time, then link (and subscribe) to a delightful podcast from the University of Virginia: Technology in World History. The series is at its halfway point; who knows what you might learn?!
For the second time in less than two weeks I decided my blog needed a redesign. You will now find a new category in the right hand margin, Web / Corporate 2.0. I recategorized many postings and republished the entire blog.
When I first started this blog over on MSN in early January of 2004, I used the category "pushing the frontier". The term Web 2.0 was unknown. Upon a recent review of my "frontier" category posts, I found most had a Web / Corporate 2.0 focus; thus the change. I’ve also included the word corporate in my category name because … if I don’t see a potential business application, it won’t be in my blog!
Via my friend, Rafael Sidi, I learned about a new McKinsey Quarterly study on corporate use of Web 2.0 tools. Maximize the thumbnail image of a chart from the McKinsey article to view a survey on Corporate adoption rates. I was surprised to learn that only 33% of the companies either have Web 2.0 applications installed, or even under consideration. An even higher number had no plans at all in this arena! The only area in which I have no plans yet are Mash-ups.
Finally, it is possible to get free access to the McKinsey Quarterly. It does require a free registration, but it is worth the effort. Not only is McKinsey doing research in the area of Web 2.0 tools, but they are practicing what they preach (or report). Last August, when I attended Wikimania (my thoughts), I was amazed to learn from the McKinsey attendee that they don’t lock down any pages on their internal wiki! I though I was open minded by only locking down four top level pages, which would insure consistent top level navigation scenarios. I need to be more open minded!
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Harvard’s IdeaCast has some competition from the other side of the Atlantic. The Times (London) has a new weekly series where top professors from Cambridge, Oxford and other leading schools from throughout the world podcast on management topics.
The information and ideas are great, but the implementation leaves something to be desired. Maybe I’m too much the American (i.e a fan of talk shows and interview formats), but a well constructed question and answer podcast format between an intelligent commentator and each professor would greatly improve the end result.
Oh well, it isn’t every day that you get the opportunity to listen to such renowned faculty, thus I decided the Times MBA Podcasts deserved a posting.
A bunch of friends who are librarians told me to watch this YouTube video. It’s subtle, but hilarious. Having said that, I admire a group of professionals who laugh at themselves. Without my corporate librarians, I would be sunk: