Friday, June 4, 2010 TED officially came to Utah. TEDx, a new program that brings TED-quality talks to local communities launched it’s first event in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah. The first presenter was Tom Vander Ark, former executive director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who is working on a new idea …
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How Connected Is Your Brand Community?
Imagine the scene. You’re a woman who has heard great things about a new boutique targeted to women just like you. You steal away some time from work to go there. The minute you enter the boutique, you’re in heaven! You hear kind & loving voices on the boutique stereo speakers. Video from the CEO is playing …
Neurons with legs — How wideband social media is changing the world’s cognitive structure
Note: This is a guest blog written by Alistair Cockburn 2009.07.25. How wideband social media is changing the world’s cognitive structure People working together is like a large brain performing a computation, but in which each neuron has legs and tends to wander off at random moments. Hutchins coined the phrase distributed cognition for when people work together …
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