Jeff Hester
web 2.0, design & community
The Beauty of Data Visualization
David McCandless is a journalist who has developed a passion for making sense of data, beautifully. It's a fascinating talk on finding patterns and truth through visualization, when data alone won't suffice. … [Read More...]
Measuring What Makes Life Matter
Great talk from hotelier Chip Conley at TED on building a business model based on happiness, and channeling Abe Maslov. … [Read More...]
Communities Behind the Firewall
Last July, I spoke at the inaugural Ignite/LA on the use of virtual communities to enable strategic knowledge sharing across the enterprise. It took a while, but the video is now online. The Ignite format uses 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds making the presentation length a total of five minutes. The next Ignite/LA will be held on Monday, June 7th in Santa Monica. You can now register … [Read More...]
Extra-Enterprise Knowledge Management
Knowledge management is commonly understood as an enterprise initiative, usually with the objectives of collecting, capturing and reusing knowledge and expertise within the enterprise. The rise of cloud computing, social media and free collaboration tools has made it possible for communities of like-minded people to form outside the context of the enterprise -- a form of ad-hoc knowledge sharing and … [Read More...]
What is… Flavors.me?
Anyone who's been paying attention has seen the dearth of writing going on here lately. I've been experimenting with lifestream focused themes that let me feed the beast that is this blog in an automated, sound bite fashion using feeds from the various services I use on a regular basis; Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Netflix, YouTube, etc.. And the lifestream is precisely where Flavors.me … [Read More...]
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