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Weekend Reading: Rework, by Fried and Hansson
Other useful and easily digestible analogies for their unique business ideas include comparing your company to a hot dog stand. This week we've got a book hot off the presses for your weekly dose of entrepreneurial reading as 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are back with their second book. Released earlier this month, Rework , a no-nonsense rethinking of how to successfully start and run a business, is the second book from Fried and Heinemeier who earlier authored Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application .
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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The Man Corporations Love and Xenophobes Hate
Murthy’s idea was so successful that it quickly became controversial—not only within the United States where some Americans feel Indians are “stealing jobs,” but also in India where many are concerned about a tech economy that doesn’t make anything. If you can’t, you don’t have a good idea. During my recent trip to India, I flew down to Bangalore for one reason: To meet N.R. Narayana Murthy.
TechCrunch - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Nation's Jews Abandon Facebook and Twitter, One Day Per Week, Starting...Now
It's a fun twist on the traditional ban on electronics, and it's a good idea for anybody, anyway: taking one day to remember what life is like apart from Twitter , Facebook , email, and all the rest can only be good for our perspective and mental stability (let alone our social lives here in the real world). It hasn't officially been rebranded, of course; God is notoriously conservative about updating that Bible of His. But, as reported by the New York Times , Reboot, a nonprofit Jewish think tank, has come up with a new version of Shabbat that is not only restive but sort of cheekily
Fast Company - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • Twitter Conference Ideas
    Twitter has become a pretty great tool to help with socializing at conferences. Here are a few of the things we've been doing Twitter as Social Chat At both DevLearn and TechKnowledge , we created a hashtag and created a specific Twitter account that was the hub. Using TweetLater and GroupTweet anyone who sent a direct message to the hub account then broadcast to everyone following that account.
    eLearning Technology - Friday, January 30, 2009
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  • The Decade in Management Ideas
    A few of us HBR editors (Gardiner Morse and Steve Prokesch helped especially) took the opportunity to look back on the past ten years of management thinking and are ready to declare our choices for the — well, why not say it — most influential management ideas of the millennium (so far). By 2009, even the man most known for focusing on value was saying it was a dumb idea . "Shareholder Tis the season for "year's best" lists — and even, this year, for "decade's best" lists — and who are we to resist the urge? Shareholder Value as a Strategy.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, January 1, 2010
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  • What is the unique idea in Connectivism?
    Gary then asked a critical question: what is the unique idea in connectivism? First, a new idea is often an old idea in today's context . For example, what is the new idea in constructivism? The ideas have existed in various forms over 2000 years ago. Late last week, I threw out a question to Gary Stager on Twitter: "when a constructivist constructs knowledge, where does it reside physically/biologically?". Gary replied with something along the lines of "we don't know and I don't care.
    Connectivism Blog - Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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  • Having Ideas Versus Having a Vision
    In the past decade, firms have been praised for ideas. Experts have celebrated the power of brainstorming and idea-generation techniques . One consequence of a decade focused on idea generation is ideas are now more easily accessible, which has also made idea generation less of a differentiator in competition than it has traditionally been. When more than 30% of the Eureka light bulbs have populated the covers of many books. Businessmen have been asked to improve their creative attitudes .
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 1, 2010
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  • Connecting ideas with communities
    It wasn’t tested, it was just an idea. One of the core ideas was the law of the few , or the notion that a few key types of people help to speed social communication. They are the people who dedicate a great deal of their lives to selling people on their ideas. I’ve noticed that this is what has happened with some of the ideas that I’ve I use the chasm model to explain my professional work of 1) seeing what is ready to cross the chasm by 2) staying connected to the innovators & being an early adopter so that 3) I can help mainstream organizations.
    Learning and Working on the Web - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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  • Request for ideas: Crowdsourcing the Evolution of Congressional Websites
    To solicit ideas for the new website, I sent my Online Communications Director While I may not be able to implement every idea that is suggested, I do plan on providing providing a list of the most innovative ideas to my fellow Members of Congress. idea Guest blogger Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, serves in the U.S.
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, March 19, 2009
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  • Brief Obama With Salesforce.com’s Idea Generator
    Do you have a good idea for President-Elect Barack Obama, a concrete policy proposal? Friday is the last day it will be accepting ideas, so submit yours now. The Citizen’s Briefing Book is powered by Salesforce.com’s CRM Ideas product , which runs on Salesforce.com and is used by Starbucks and Dell to solicit ideas from customers. All week long, Obama’s transition site Change.gov has been soliciting policy proposals from people across the country through an app called the Citizen’s Briefing Book . The Citizen’s Briefing Book is
    TechCrunch - Thursday, January 15, 2009
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  • Wikimedia Strategy: Ideas for Strengthening Online Communities
    Our hunting and gathering of ideas for improving community health got a booster shot last month when Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner, deputy director Erik Moeller and I had the opportunity to spend the day with Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales as well as with Clay Shirky, adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program and author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations. The subject of the day was the state of the Wikipedia community, and its objective was to generate ideas. For those of you who have been following Wikimedia's open strategy initiative on this blog , you'll know that one of the goals of the work has been to strengthen the health of the Wikipedia community of contributors who create and use its online encyclopedias.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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  • Tips For Better Ideas
    A pop-up book guide to (un)structuring your thinking to have better ideas . Tags: Constructivism Creativity Design Film & Animation creativity execute later productivity think first tips for better idea The one I have to think about more: think first, execute later. You? ...Tags:
    edublogs - Sunday, January 31, 2010
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  • Religious Ideas Burrow Into Brains
    Another important body of work in the “cognitive science of religion” concerns how religious ideas are transmitted between generations. Last week I described some recent cognitive research on the (rather unfortunate) naturalness of creationist reasoning. And the name Pascal Boyer, an anthropologist from Washington University of Saint Louis, is rightfully synonymous with this well-known research. [More] ...Tags:
    Scientific American - Thursday, March 26, 2009
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