Today your strongest asset is your network. Your social network of informed, intelligent peers, is going to be the most valuable resource you have against the increasing landslide of information coming at you. It is in the wisdom of crowds, in word of mouth marketing, and socially built trust and reputation that a great part of your future success will need to find its key allies.
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Being "
in the know", aware and informed about what is happening, is increasingly more important for anyone dealing with communication, media, technology today. This is why, every Saturday, guest contributor George Siemens, reports in this space relevant news and issues about technology, media, and their relevance to your every day life. In his digest this week:
a)
A look at connective and collective intelligence brings to light how groups think and come to decidedly profound conclusions.
b)
Employers prefer candidates who are well-connected in their industry, as opposed to experts in the field, because access to a well-informed network lends to productivity and profitability.
c)
The topic of obsolete skills set one blogger's comments on fire, and inspired an entirely new community creation.
d)
Attention has its own circuits, as one blogger points out, and money follows attention in a digitized economy, where copies flow freely.
e)
Learn a new language through total immersion without leaving your computer, thanks to today's social media technologies.
f)
Citizen journalism gets a shot at the mainstream, as CNN launches iReport.
g)
Artificial intelligence is predicted to match human intelligence in 20 years, even with electronic chip augmentation in humans.
h)
Continued experiments in Seesmic, as George himself becomes inexorably drawn to his new found "
life sucking tool."
Here the details:
