• Article: How Steelcase is designing now for the future of work – What is the impact of coworking on larger corporations? How are they responding?

  Mark Greiner: Businesses are recognizing the importance of choice to their employees. By providing options in how and where their employees work, they’re noticing increases in workplace productivity and morale. Corporations can’t ignore employees and their individual choices anymore. If they do, it will be at their expense.

• Article: Activity Streams: Information Highway of the Future? | Marie’s Ramblings & Ruminations – This model not only helps me understand the content, but also helps me decide what to do with the information. Do I just file away any new facts to my socio-semantic graph for later retrieval? Does it fill a gap in my mental model, hence provoking me to make a decision, ask a question, kick off a business process, send an e-mail, write a blog post?
• Article: The 3 Biggest Barriers To Innovation, And How To Smash Them –
• Dumb Design… a Flaw of Smart People? « Between IT, Media and the Litterbox – But most of all, don’t try to make things too simple. It will always come back to haunt you. If you have a difficult production, don’t force yourself to make it too simple.

• Usability-Studie: Ist Google+ nicht benutzerfreundlich und intuitiv genug? – guter Kommentar:

  "Als ich mich zum ersten Mal mit G+ beschäftigte, bin ich mit dem Vorsatz daran gegangen, das es sich hier nicht um Facebook handelt, also hab ich auch erwartet, dass einiges anders ist als bei FB. Als problematisch hatte ich das jedoch niemals empfunden, es hat auch nicht lange gedauert, bis ich kapiert habe, wie's läuft. Allerdings kann ich mir recht gut vorstellen, dass ein Großteil der FB-Klientel Probleme damit hat, mal etwas anders zu machen als "wie ich das schon immer gemacht habe". Vielleicht gar nicht mal so schlecht, wenn dieser Teil der FB-User bleibt, wo er ist, sonst haben wir hier auch möglicherweise bald dieses "Du, ich sitz gerade auffem Klo, was machst Du denn jetzt?" – Niveau."

• Google+ Tipps und Tricks – Google Text & Tabellen – Ein gemeinschaftliches Dokument
  (oder wie 120+ Menschen ein Buch gleichzeitig schrieben)
• ReaderSharer Brings Sharing Options Back to Google Reader in Firefox and Chrome – I bet this works via tagging and not really through a database– similar to what ridllr.com is doing.

  Glad to see people working to fix google's massive massive mistake. However, this is only like a 40% solution since it just brings back sharing and not commenting. I'm holding out for hivemind.org

• What Motivates Us To Post On Google Plus | Media Tapper – Taken from the point of view of these 3 motivators for intellectual activity, Google+ is a platform that allows you to use all of them in the most complete and holistic way.  I have read about many people that were not actively blogging or creating content before G+, and for which this platform has opened the doors of collective creation.

  What has been your experience when creating content for G+? Do you consider that the factors delineated above are in-line with your motivations for posting?

• Creating a ebook with LibreOffice Writer – Something else you should do is validate your EPUB. Validation is the process of making sure that your EPUB books contain all the elements that ebook readers expect. Like what? Here’s a partial list:

  Complete metadata
  The proper directory structure in the EPUB file
  Valid XHTML
  Working links and references to files in the EPUB file
  A table of contents

  All of that should be fine, but it’s best to check. To do that in Sigil, select Tools > Validate Epub. Validation only takes a few seconds but it’s a useful step

• Amazon AWS: So nutzt man den Cloud-Dienst EC2 | Storage & Server | Galerien | ZDNet.de – EC2 ist das Herzstück der Amazon Web Services und stellt dem Nutzer stundenweise virtuelle Server zur Verfügung. ZDNet gibt eine Anleitung für Einsteiger und zeigt Schritt für Schritt, wie man Instanzen unter Linux und Windows anlegt.

  Amazons Elastic-Compute-Cloud-Dienste (EC2) bilden das Herzstück der Amazon Web Services (AWS). Im Prinzip ist EC2 ein Service, der Anwendern virtuelle Server zur Verfügung stellt, die er nach Belieben nutzen kann. Sie können wahlweise mit Linux oder Windows betrieben werden.

• Hack an Ikea Solar Lamp to Charge an iPad – In the past we've covered how to turn the inexpensive Ikea Sunnan solar lamp into a solar display case and today we have a hack from electronics manufacturer Voltaic Systems to turn the same lamp into a solar charging station for an iPad or other power-hungry phone or tablet.
  This hack is actually three mini-hacks rolled into one—Voltaic shows how to replace the low-capacity rechargeable batteries in the lamp's battery pack with larger batteries, mod the lamp to accept additional external solar panels, and adding a modified Minty Boost charging circuit to allow devices to pull up to 1 Amp of electricity.
• Louis Gray – Google+ – How To Make the New Google Reader Social With Google+ #rss… – It's sort of sad to see Google engaging in this type of behavior, it's what we are used to from other companies, and what made Google different. The behavior I refer to is purposely destroying the RSS sharing platform for no other reason than forcing people to put that activity onto G+. It's especially a shame because you could have had your cake and eaten it too. What you could have done is added a button at the top just like you did for games called "RSS shares", that is where users could have gone to look at the ton of RSS content their fellow Reader users share. And you could have also allowed sharing to G+. Instead you destroyed a great sharing platform just so you could force people to share to G+. And now everyone will cut down what they share one hundred fold because they won't want to spam their G+ streams.

• Networked Society ‘On the Brink’ – I favorited a YouTube video: In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud. Each of the interview…
• Don’t Give Your Users Shit Work – This is why I was never fascinated by Google+ and its concept of Circles. You have to go through entire sub-communities of your friends and drop them into arbitrary groupings. That sounds like shit work to me. What happens if I get really hammered with a Business Acquaintance and he becomes a Close Drinking Partner? Do I move his circles around? What happens if we hire him? Is he a Coworker and a Close Drinking Partner? The last thing I want to have to worry about is continually micromanaging another facet of life. This is important, since Google+ Circles is allegedly about privacy, and if you don’t continually cultivate your circles, you could inadvertently send out the wrong update to the wrong subset of contacts.
• tools that lubricate human communication – omenti- All of these tools are windows into something much deeper –  us and our desire to communicate. I would bet a lot that we are much closer to the beginning than the end of a period of great change.  The Industrial Revolution took about one hundred and fifty years and we’re only about fifty years into the current revolution.
  From my vantage point I don’t see the younger generation as being more adroit simply because they grew up in a new world.  They were surrounded by different tools and defaulted to them making them their own, but these tools will change.  The term digital native is popular, but I don’t see the process of change as abrupt with people on one side or the other of a divide — a rich continuum of tools has been emerging.  Some will replace old modes of communications entirely and some will serve niche groups differently.  And there are surprises when very old tools prove to be much more robust than imagined.
• Don’t Send That Email. Pick up the Phone! – Anthony Tjan – Harvard Business Review – Email is one of the greatest productivity contributors of the past two decades, and social communication platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have fundamentally changed and positively enriched the means and reach with which we are able to interact. Yet we have to recognize when such digital channels cannot substitute for a live conversation. Email and social networking modes of communications have created a generation of casually convenient new connections, and even helped us deepen existing relationships, but they can rarely replace the real world
• Information dis-intermediaries are new hackers – discourse and notes – Broadly speaking, there is nothing new under the sun. Broadly speaking, the original curation technology was the very telephone switch with which the hackers tinkered. And here we are now, decades later, tearing down old filters to build new ones. Broadly speaking, however, there is still a difference between Morse code and the Internet, and innovation that happens in little steps, with little perfections and improvements, before too long reaches a point where evolution is seen as revolution with hindsight. The hacking that is happening in information and disintermediation, the themes in transactional efficiency described herein, and the three enterprising symbols at the forefront of these movements, will merit revisiting at some point in the future. The work these three have undertaken is much bigger than we may now realize.

• Change Management is the Foundation of a Social Organization | Social Business News – The foundation for social organization transformation is culture and leadership. Process and technology initiatives are certainly important and play a vital role; but without a change in organizational behavior it will prove meaningless. Change starts from the top and it’s the leaders that are responsible for facilitating this change.
• aptgetupdateDE » Mein neues Zu-Hause-NAS: Synology DS411 – In der engeren Auswahl hatte ich Lösungen von Q-NAP und eben Synology. Entscheidend am Ende war für mich der Preis. Ich wollte für mein NAS ohne Festplatten nicht mehr als 400€ zahlen. Die DS411 (DS steht übrigens für DiskStation und die 4 für max. 4 Festplatten und 11 für das Jahr der Herstellung) passte mit ca. 380€ preislich sehr gut in den Rahmen. Die Hardware-technisch vergleichbare Lösung von Qnap – die Qnap TS-419P+ lag mit ca. 425€ leider ein wenig drüber. Vorteil bei der Qnap wäre auf jeden Fall das Gehäuse mit Display und die Möglichkeit, die Festplatten per Hot-Swap einzubauen bzw. zu wechseln. Da ich aber nicht vorhabe, so schnell meine Festplatten-Konfiguration zu ändern und es auch bei der DS411 nicht wirklich unpraktisch ist, habe ich mich neben anderen Gründen gegen die Qnap- und für die Synology Lösung entschieden.
• Why Microsoft’s Vision Of The Future Is Dead On Arrival | Co. Design – I have a problem with the Microsoft video because of its content. What they aspire to be is Apple, as usual. This video is like a chart where you take the current Apple product lineup and project out 10 years with a ruler, assuming the products stay the same but gain even richer features.
• Nanode – a low cost, internet connected Arduino board | Ian Chilton – Back in August 2010, an Electronics Engineer from the UK called Ken Boak wrote that he had built a web connected Arduino for £12 and later shared the schematic.

  These posts became the basis of a whole new product he would create which is known as the “Nanode”. Nanode is short for “Network Application Node” and is an open source, low cost Arduino board with built in Ethernet courtesy of the Microchip ENC28J60 chip. Over 1000 Nanode’s have been sold in the past few months.

• The Impermanence of Knowledge | Energy Bulletin – Abstract

  Knowledge is essential to our existence. Without knowledge life is almost impossible. So we need to care about what we know. In the recent past mankind has managed to collect enormous amounts of knowledge. This era is now nearing its end. For knowledge is, perhaps surprisingly, intimately connected with energy. We are at present in for a severe energy crisis, which translates into a knowledge crisis. In other words: the science boom is over. But not only will it be next to impossible to continue increasing our knowledge, even keeping the knowledge we already have will become a great challenge.

• The Science of Change – The key is that we need to change ourselves. We need to transform, not them. We don’t need to occupy Wall Street, we simply need to occupy Main Street because that is where they occupy us. It is not enough to marvel at our numbers, civil disobedience, and cardboard signs. We need a Science of change so that we can do so.
• steve jobs and the no @$$hole rule – Bottom line: I still believe in Sutton’s rule, but Jobs was exceptional. Almost no one had his deep knowledge of the high tech business or such an acute sense of style and design. Few can build an organization tailored to their personality. Most @$$holes will never be in Jobs’ league and will merely make our lives miserable. Long live the no @$$hole rule!
• live.hackr : Reader- – die gesamte dontdoevil-narration ist natürlich so viel wert wie klopapier, wenn sie sich mit facebook – und also das erste mal mit einem echten herausforderer – konfrontiert in einen moron verwandeln, der seine infomonopolistischen marktmacht ohne rücksicht auf verluste (auf seiten der user, wohin sollen sie den gehen, muhaha) ausnützt, um dem eigenen hoffnungsträger g+ ein gewisses momentum zu verleihen; wobei sie das alleine natürlich nicht evil macht, aber – wie diplix schön sagt – billig, schlampig und doof.
• Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? – >* – Fantastic post that articulates all my views on the matter better than I could ahve. I was looking forward to G+ integration and was appalled to find they just ripped my friends' shares out completely.
  The red subscribe button is hilarious in comparison to the rest of the monochrome scheme.
  I just hope they're soaking up feedback and prepared to move quickly on it
• Warum Sharing nun schlechter ist und wie man Vieles besser machen könnte | Google Reader schlanker und plussiger | News-Foren – Das für mich dominanteste Beispiel: Ich konnte bislang sehr bequem
  einigen Leuten *im Reader* folgen, ohne deren sonstige (für mich
  größtenteil irrelevanten) G+ Posts lesen zu müssen.

  Nun muss ich mir die für mich interessanten Teile aus deren weitaus
  umfangreicheren G+ Streams herausfiltern. Das ist mir persönlich zu
  zeitraubend und blöd.

  Ich verzichte nun komplett auf das Sharing und das Konsumieren von
  gesharten Inhalten.

• Unklartext – Das Schmidt-Steinbrück-Buch hält nicht, was der Hype verspricht. Anja Höfer im Gespräch mit Reinhard Hübsch. SWR2 Journal am Morgen vom 27.10.2011
• Kuchen für Alle! – Wir sind die 90%
• More Than Facebook: The Time Is Right For Social Business – Forbes – What’s keeping other companies from following their lead? Many executives recognize that social media is powerful, even if they still wonder in the back of their minds whether it’s just a time sink. Yet, even when they decide that there is potential, these execs get hung up on trying to figure how to apply social technologies to their companies, how to engage and empower their employees to participate.

  Here’s the trick with social business: Focus on people and culture.

• The Connected Company: Environment and Organization Come First « Dachis Group Collaboratory – Technology solutions will be applied to management challenges in time. Market forces make it nearly inevitable.  It remains to be seen if they’ll be effective without management interventions that consider the culture and human side of the equation.  It’s important to allow for new roles and ways of thinking to grow organically within an organization as a foundation for this transition.

  Our collaborative discovery sessions with clients reveal patterns to the environmental needs of major organizations. We’ve found that is helpful to share with clients a list of socially calibrated attributes that may prompt internal evaluation and change.

  How does your organization compare with this list? Are you ready to make a transition to managing a socially calibrated organization?

• Moving the Economy: The Future of the Maker Movement – Forbes – I’m motivated and moved by the idea, the belief – that the people who invent and build and make things have the power to change the world. People who “remix” something or hack a better way.
• Mobile Proliferation Killed Linux Hopes For World Domination | Forrester Blogs – _Analyst_ writes about things he doesn't understand. Sigh.
• SparkleShare: Webinterface für das Repository… und ein Fazit – Nachdem ich mich nun im Zuge meiner Blog-Artikel eine Zeit lang mit SparkleShare beschäftigt habe, möchte ich nun zum Schluss der Serie ein kleines Fazit dazu ziehen
• „Halloween – Warum verkleiden, wenn im Büro genug Horrortypen lauern?" – eine Typologie aus dem Gruselkabinett der schlimmsten Großraumvampire, Bürozombies und Schreibtischplagegeister
• Lokaltermin: Was darf es sein, Ernst Greten?: Management – impulse – Das Erstlingswerk des weltberühmten Architekten und Bauhaus-Gründers Walter Gropius. Dessen Glasfassade mit den durchsichtigen Gebäudeecken das sachliche, internationale Bauen vorwegnahm. Ein Schlüsselbau der Moderne.
• The cure for corporate inertia | opensource.com – Why are management processes the last bastion of resistance when a company is trying to change? I think there are three linked reasons.

  Management processes are a long way from the action. They support primary value-adding activities, but are often two or three steps removed from the marketplace, so feedback from customers about the need to work differently or more quickly is filtered and lost.
  There are strong vested interests at play. Board members like to offer advice and make decisions, lawyers like writing contracts. Turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving. Enough said.
  Management processes are usually dependent on each other, and together they create a tightly-woven matrix that cannot easily be pulled apart. If you try to change one process, you upset a further two or three others, and pretty soon you are taking on the entire system.

• 10 ways to craft a career that will stand the test of time | opensource.com – five forces that will shape work and careers:

  ever greater globalization of innovation and talent;
  the development of ever more sophisticated connective technologies;
  profound changes in demography and longevity which will see many live until they are 100 and others live in regions where 40% of the population are over 50;
  broad societal forces that will see trust in institutions decrease and families become ever more re-arranged; and finally,
  the impact that carbon use and Co2 will have on how we think about our own consumption patterns.
  Taking this rich cocktail of forces into consideration here are my 10 tips about skills, networks and choices.

• Post-Privacy-Buch: “Fesselt die Datenschützer!” | ctrl+verlust – Hellers Buch ist ein kompletter Gegenentwurf zum Privatsphären- und Datenschutzdenken in Deutschland. Seine Argumente treffen das Grundverständnis vieler unserer Werte und Erzählungen ins Mark. Erfreulicher Weise wird Heller bei aller Radikalität nie eifernd, sondern bleibt immer nüchtern und sachlich.
• ETH Zurich Multimedia Portal: video, audio, podcast, webcast, live-streaming – Richard Stallman – Richard Stallman, A free digital society … über 2h Vortrag an der ETH Zürich

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• Papierloses Büro – 10 Virtuelle Faxdienste im Überblick –
• http://www.relationship-economy.com/?p=14566 –
• Transforming into a social business – questions the technocentric way that many organizations have approached social business (or rather social software) this far and suggests a business-oriented approach to socializing business operations, focusing on how to use social technologies to support prioritized business operations and on supporting the transformation with the right change management approach.
• Social business tools are a strategic investment; driven by the business not IT – It’s business leaders, not their IT colleagues, who are driving purchasing decisions. Which makes sense: business leaders are tasked with deploying technologies for strategic advantage. They must move fast to gain a competitive edge.
• Hacking the IKEA Lack: One Table, Ten Different Ways –
• Fehlersuche: Shellskripten gesprächiger machen – Shellskripting ist ein Prozess, bei dem nicht immer alles so laufen muss, wie man sich das vorstellt. Gerade bei komplexeren Skripten bricht das Skript mal gerne im Probelauf ab. Doch wo steckt der Fehler? Mit einem einfachen Trick kann man das Skript dazu bringen, mehr Informationen auszuspucken. Dazu fügt man im Skript ein: set -x
• Daniel Treadwell – Google+ – Google+Blog for WordPress UPDATE 1.0.4 Google+Blog for… – Google+Blog for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to import your Google+ Public posts (and their comments) as blog posts into your WordPress setup

For more information on electric zero-emission cars (business model innovation issues, yes – design issues, no) see the live-blogged notes in this embedded wave at frogpond:

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