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Via Daniel Huf
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
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Cradle to Cradle Design (sometimes abbreviated to C2C or in some circles referred to as regenerative) is a biomimetic approach to the design of systems. It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. It suggests that industry must protect and enrich ecosystems and nature's biological metabolism while also maintaining safe, productive technical metabolism for the high-quality use and circulation of organic and synthetic materials. Put simply, it is a holistic economic, industrial and social framework that seeks to create systems that are not just efficient but essentially waste free. The model in its broadest sense is not limited to industrial design and manufacturing; it can be applied to many different aspects of human civilization such as urban environments, buildings, economics and social systems. Via "Hot, Flat and Crowded", by Thomas L. Friedman
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Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter. Via Jérôme Bailly
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Psychologists understand that people may not say what's on their minds either because they are unwilling or because they are unable to do so. For example, if asked "How much do you smoke?" a smoker who smokes 4 packs a day may purposely report smoking only 2 packs a day because they are embarrassed to admit the correct number. Or, the smoker may simply not answer the question, regarding it as a private matter. (These are examples of being unwilling to report a known answer.) But it is also possible that a smoker who smokes 4 packs a day may report smoking only 2 packs because they honestly believe they only smoke about 2 packs a day. (Unknowingly giving an incorrect answer is sometimes called self-deception; this illustrates being unable to give the desired answer).
The unwilling-unable distinction is like the difference between purposely hiding something from others and unconsciously hiding something from yourself.
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Intranet 2.0 (social media on the corporate intranet) has not only become a collection of mainstream technologies, it has become a necessity for organizations that want to be an employer of choice.
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Here are some social media numbers, not in the Intranet 2.0 Global study, to consider:
* About 90% of adults under the age of 40 are on Facebook (higher in Canada & Northern Europe, a little lower in the US)
* 39% of employees under the age of 25 would consider leaving their job if their company banned tools such as Facebook -
The latest subscriber figures (see table below) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it’s time for newspapers to turn off their RSS feeds « and hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to their Twitter accounts. Via ChouingMedia
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Prioriser les tà¢ches selon 4 critères:
1: Plus un défaut est proche du point de transformation de votre site (la commande), plus son impact est grand.
2: Classez donc les défauts en fonction de leur coût de production.
3. Il y a des défauts plus ou moins graves : bloquant (tirez la sonnette d’alarme), trompeurs (ils font faire de fausses manipulations à vos visiteurs), bénin, etc.
4. Fréquence : plus un défaut arrive souvent à vos utilisateurs, plus vous avez intérêt à le corriger. -
Do you like to find hidden meanings in your dreams? Do you ever wonder why do people dream? Would you like to control your dreams? We spend one-third of our lives sleeping and most of it dreaming.
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Body language or nonverbal communication is a strong and often neglected form of communication. Although we instinctively use gestures to signal emotions, we are barely aware of it. Yet, we subconsciously react to these signals when we see them in others.
Understanding body language and using that knowledge can give you a huge advantage over people who don’t pay attention. What must be said though is that everyone is different, meaning not all signs typically associated with a certain emotion are true for every individual out there. The art is to be able to tell based on close observation. It’s a skill, it requires training, here are the clues.
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Take a Nap! Change Your Life :
Mednick has produced scientific proof that people ought to take afternoon naps. Her latest study, published in the technical journal "Behavioral Brain Research," is in my opinion irrefutable. Naps, she found, improve cognitive performance better than caffeine and better than placebos — and … for even the most expensive medical intervention, to exceed the effectiveness of a placebo is quite impressive. Mednick is now campaigning for naps and even engaged in corporate nap consulting — there's a 21st century field! She believes companies that allow employees to nap will realize improved productivity in the same number of work hours, a proposition that makes intuitive sense to me. Modern globalized life grows ever more stressful; the only sane response may be to take a nap.
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Janet Radcliffe Richards (1944- ) is a British feminist philosopher and bioethicist. She reads bioethics and is Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine at University College London, is the author of several books, papers and articles, and has sat on a variety of advisory and working committees in areas of philosophy and bioethics. She is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and posts regularly at the University of Oxford’s Practical Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on the News website. At present, her name often arises in articles and discussions on organ transplantation, in particular the idea of a legitimate organ trade. Her identification with feminism and her focus on bioethics both occurred [by accident] during the writing of her first book, The Sceptical Feminist: A philosophical enquiry (Routledge, 1980; Penguin, 1982) – bioethics being central to the abortion debate.
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An organization without a 2.0 strategy risks being left behind, or outright failure (though death may be slow). Employees want to work for progressive and innovative organizations, and expect 2.0 environments from employers of choice.
*47% have intranet wikis (17% enterprise deployment); 10% have no plans or interest
*45% have intranet blogs (13% enterprise deployment); 11% have no plans or interest
*46% have intranet discussion forums (19% enterprise use); 9% have no plans or interest
*46% have intranet instant messaging (29% enterprise use); 21% have no plans or interest
*19% have intranet social networking (6% enterprise use); 20% have no plans or interest
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Web 2.0 + World = W^2
