... developed by IBM Research and ask for adding an improved alternative text to describe the image." ...

Reality Growing in Virtual World is the title of an article in the Startribune from Minnesota. The learning community's Mark Oehlert (aka ChuckNorris Mission) is quoted and the article highlights some of the big work being done in Secondlife by the likes of IBM and others. "We're really at the very, very bleeding edge of companies doing this," said Mark Oehlert," an associate at the Booz Allen Hamilton technology consulting firm in Herndon, Va. "For one thing ... doing them?' " IBM's interest is significant, he believes, because it brings instant credibility to this frontier.

Recently, I got my hands on IBM's Global Innovation Outlook 2.0 report. You want to do the same. In fact, you may want to check out a number of reports and ideas flowing at the IBM Innovation Web site. But getting back to the Global Innovation Outlook 2.0 report. The report is well written and is fun and easy to read, it is written in the style and format of my favorite Tom Peters book Re-Imagine . So it is filled with images, quotes and statistics from a variety ... number of people who work at IBM. 724,000+ is the number of Americans for whom eBay is their primary or secondary ...

Late last week I posted that I was intrigued with a new IBM social networking application, Many Eyes. The field of data visualization is interesting, and the idea that one may share and visualize data sets via a social network appealed to me ... so I created a tutorial. Now you may share my curiosity, and visualizations (or create your own). Northstar Nerd Tutorial: Data Visualization via IBM's Many Eyes Tutorial Examples: DataSet | Visualization | Create Your Own ... and more Many Eyes Links: IBM "Many Eyes" Tool - IBM AlphaWorks Web ...

... out a deal with IBM to move Second Life behind the IBM corporate firewall. If this can be a standard business practice ... intranet as opposed to the Internet. IBM announced today that it was changing that. In a pilot program, IBM will host ... and public spaces at will. You can see other IBM efforts in Second Life such as the Healthcare island. Read about it in IBM Opens New 3D Virtual Healthcare Island on Second Life __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and ...

The web may be smart, but it's also rather dumb! Like most bloggers I enjoy checking my stats. This blog is quite popular, and I am intrigued to learn whom is linking to eContent (this blog). Within the last several days these two blog posts have been picked up and linked by Google Trends and IBM ManyEyes : Mea Culpa: Indian Institute of Technology Courses (and) Data Visualization Tutorial: IBM Many Eyes In the instance of the IBM Link , a real IBM employee saw my Northstar Nerd Tutorial on data visualization and thought it was well done (thank you). In the case of ...

Training as a competitive advantage .... "IBM, which expects to unveil better-than-expected quarterly figures, has announced it will spend some of its cash on incentives to encourage some of its largest partners to invest more in training and other areas . On Wednesday, the company introduced a scheme to help its business partners who are cooperating on its New Enterprise Data Center strategy. The scheme involves incentives for IBM partners to improve their knowledge in three specific areas: virtualization and consolidation; energy efficiency; and business ...

On ComputerWorld, ran into an article IBM: Tapping Employee Brain Power you may find the print version easier to read (and on one page). The article mentions something that I had heard about from Tony O'Driscoll at IBM, but had not seen in print: IBM's new values, which include putting client needs first and fostering innovation, may seem obvious, but Truskowski says the participatory, grass-roots means by which they were developed gives them credibility with ... employees, and IBM later implemented the top 35 suggestions as determined by an employee vote. More recently they've ...

... story link ) **As an aside, I love the new editing UI in Typepad...good job guys! So IBM is releasing something called OpusUna (which means something like "work as one"); "OpusUna enables participants to collaborate and communicate from within the same browser space, incorporating widgets, audio, and video cameras to display themselves on the screen. IBM envisions, for example, collaboration on patient care via sharing of medical images. Financial traders also could collaborate from around the world." Right now I guess its only working in Safari...?? Anybody know any ...

I've been reading Luis Suarez's blog for a while, and he just had an interesting post that pointed me to IBM's BlogRoll . While lots of the blogs listed there have interesting technical topics, I don't have the time to examine them each ... but I'm not worried. I've found that if they are blogging about topics that I'm interested in, the natural network effect of blogs will eventually get me there. (Or maybe I'm deluding myself.) ...

I've been reading Luis Suarez's blog for a while, and he just had an interesting post that pointed me to IBM's BlogRoll . While lots of the blogs listed there have interesting technical topics, I don't have the time to examine them each ... but I'm not worried. I've found that if they are blogging about topics that I'm interested in, the natural network effect of blogs will eventually get me there. (Or maybe I'm deluding myself.) One thing that it does say is that corporate blogging is slowly taking off!

IBM has released a 3D game to teach engineering concepts to kids. It comes complete with lesson plans for teachers including one called windturbine design and build challenge. They are working through a group they helped form called TryScience . Read more about IBM and TryScience here . You can read about their other partner, New York Hall of Science as well. The game is called PowerUp . Players journey to planet Helios and deal with ecological problems. Once there the learners race to save the plant as they build solutions that are ecologically friendly. Playing the game, ...

Last Month I had the opportunity to participate in this wonderful symposium organized by University of Utrecht and IBM. Here is the conference agenda . Great line up of speakers. It was a mixed reality event. There were participants physically co-located in Amsterdam and The Eduverse Foundation hosted a simultaneous event in SL. To do this show I was in my office in Durham on Skype with another machine open to the SL venue. It was a lot of fun but definitely ... can check out videos of all the symposium talks here . Chuck Hamilton from IBM also spoke and I would also like to ...

... the soup that is Web 2.0. I was participating in IBM’s most recent Innovation Jam focused on the Enterprise ...

Clark Quinn from Learnlets welcomes Tony O'Driscoll to the learning bloggosphere. And so do I...in a BIG way!!! I'll have to agree with Clark on the long post concern, but what the heck...we're just glad your hear Tony! I actually like the long thoughtful posts...its inspiring to read what I'm thinking, clearly. His blog titled Learning Matters! at wadatripp.wordpress.com Tony's answer to the February BIG QUESTION is right on the money. You gotta read this one. A lot of us are echoing these thoughts but Tony has genius, and clarity in his writing style that is quite enviable. It's ...

One of your new year's resolutions better include learning to use Second Life. Why? Well for one thing, IBM has just ... , IBM's vice president of technical strategy and innovation talking to C/NET News about the opening of an IBM business unit focusing on Second Life. Check out other pictures of the interview. To quote the article IBM will launch an ... . ..According to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's vice president of technical strategy and innovation, IBM employees have a ... now active, and perhaps several thousand more that have avatars that are not that active,Â…IBM Chief Executive ...

... of Communicaitons at IBM who leads the GIO project among other key innovation initiatives. Furthermore, beyond ...

Virtual Worlds III is in full swing up in New York and around the blogosphere. The big news is that IBM announces a development deal with Second Life to bring their platform to the enterprise. This is yet one more piece of the puzzle that falls into place for a vision for what I am calling the i-web singularity: A technological black hole at the apex of four technological vectors that is moving forward at an exponential pace and integrating across vectors at the same time. I have noodled on this topic before , but this time I think the focus is getting sharper. Vector ...

Some companies encourage their employees to blog, post on discussion boards. Other companies take a more guarded approach. IBM and Sun Computers are two companies which openly encourage their employees to participate, and even discuss their own work projects. Link and be enlightened! IBM: Shel Israel interviews IBM's George Faulkner Sun: Employee Guidelines for Web 2.0 ...

Last week in Boston I sat at a roundle table with Tony O'Driscoll of IBM. He explained that IBM has hit the wall in terms of using competance models and skills gap anaysis. The reason? "IBM has concluded that everyone has a skills gap all the time " Why? Because knowledge gaps are getting wider due to the accelerate pace of change and the speed of ... skills gaps I would say that is a truly significant statement. If this is true for a huge organization like IBM, then ... models, skills inventories, and such? Tony says that IBM conducted assessments in the sales organization and asked ...

My alma mater, the University of Arizona to teach students to implement BitTorrent and Web2.0 in business .  "Apparently, the interest in information technology among students has significantly decreased. The Association for Computer Machinery has reported that the number of students choosing to study computer science has dropped by an average of 32 percent over the last 4 years. IBM's aim is to encourage more of today's students to pursue a degree in information ... manager" is on the rise. IBM wants to prepare students to fill this position." This is very cool.  Huge thanks ...

... forms the basis of DOS for the IBM PC. 1981: First IBM PC hits the shelves, with 16K memory and mono display ... . 1984: Apple launches the Macintosh. IBM announces the PC AT with 286 processor and 20MB hard drive. 1985 ... price tag. Compaq launches first 386 PC. 1987: Apple launches Mac II, with colour. IBM launches PS/2 range ... SoundBlaster card. 1992: IBM reports $4.87 billion loss. M/S launches Windows for Workgroups. Philips CDi ... modem. Apple, IBM and Motorola announce PowerPC. 1995: IBM buys Lotus. Windows 95 ships, requiring 16MB ...

IBM has made content without including learners in the production process of courses!! (see below at Bert De Coutere). Paul Westeneng Wiki Welten: Dutch wiki working on the media wiki engine. usage went down, below expectation, mostly senior contributors that were adding content. most users expect handson information, which gives a problem if it is not ... Coutere learning at IBM they use tagcrowd.com talks about the ibm knowledge factory here he puts out a question to the room: 'how can you involve the learner without loosing the quality?' Something strange here, apparently IBM has ...

Back in May 2006, I was fortunate to take part in a UK government mission to the USA to explore what lay "Beyond eLearning" (click the link for the final report). Travelling to both coasts (Boston and Silicon Valley) we met a great mix of academic (MIT Medialab, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning) and corporate organisations (Cisco, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, IBM to name a few).

IBM's KM strategy - KM World With a knowledge management history that dates to 1994, IBM certainly qualifies as an early adopter. Although its focus has shifted through the years, IBM's success with knowledge management continues to thrive through its enterprisewide knowledge exchange and collaboration. Gadgets get the feel of the tactile world - New Scientist When it comes to interacting with computers, our sense of touch has been all but ignored. It's the first sense we develop in the womb, yet for most of us rumbling games controllers or vibrating cellphones are just ...

Circuit City just announced that they are opening a store in Second Life in an article titled Circuit City Enters Second Life. The process was facilitated by IBM as discussed earlier in my post IBM Opens a Business Unit in Second Life . In my upcoming book' Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning , I make the following prediction Entire shopping malls will be online and populated with avatars. The avatars will have the same measurements, skin tone, and hair color as ... the idea of Circuit City entering Second Life, IBM being involved and a third piece which I have used for years--a ...

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to particpate with colleagues from IBM and Duke CE in a plenary session at the HRPS Conference Our session was entitled “ Second Life: What's the Business Case for HR in the Virtual World?” My buddy Steve Mahaley (Ace Carson in SL) did an awesome job of producing this plenary. And boy was it ... script and had to manage timing with Chuck Hamilton from IBM who was dialled in on SL from Vancouver. We kicked it ... Industry Applications at IBM that dealth with HR (Recruiting, Call Centers, Intern Training, Onboarding, Alumni etc, ...

Corporate eLearning Blog posts related to Corporate eLearning: eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More in Corporate eLearning New Debate on Value of Blogs and Wikis in the Enterprise Open Source Business Model Knowledge Management Core Issues Use of iPods and other Mobile Learning IBM Taps Employees for Innovation Using Blog Like Tools Corporate Learning Laggards? Why Wikis Are Conquering the Enterprise Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning?

I was just asked on twitter about use social bookmarking tools that work behind the firewall. I thought I had blogged about this before, but I'm not finding the post. Here are the social bookmarking tools that I commonly cite in presentations: BEA Pathways Cogenz Connectbeam del.irio.us - perl based, very similar to del.icio.us IBM Lotus Connections Scuttle - Open Source WSSsearch - SharePoint add-on Any others? Good comparisons of these? I originally included: Jive Software - because I thought they had it, but it appears they don't.

Unlocking the DNA of the Adaptable Workforce - IBM (executive summary) Click to enlarge Developing the workforce is the prime ingredient for an organization's success. "As any firm that has attempted to transform its workforce to meet changing conditions will attest, the journey is difficult and littered with obstacles. Understanding key workforce performance challenges and identifying the leading practices companies are using to overcome them have become central focus areas." - IBM download the complete paper Back to Basics - Metropolis In our rush ...