Our esteemed Principal and Chief Curriculum Officer Howard Rheingold will be presenting Net Smart: How to Survive Online at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Tuesday April 24th at 6:00 p.m.
Read more →Filter Bubble author Eli Pariser has partnered with Peter Koechly from The Onion to roll out Upworthy, “ a new social media outfit with a mission: to help people find important content that is as fun to share as a FAIL video of some idiot surfing off his roof.” Upworthy seems to be taking an enlightened approach toward
Read more →Welcome to the new world of Corporate Curation
In a recent Forbes.com column, contributor Steven Rosenbaum discussed at length IBM’s efforts at transforming itself into a social enterprise. The article specifically highlighted the task of curation, one of The Infotention Network’s core skills, as one of the key means that the company is leveraging to being this capability to the fore. This brief article highlights the emerging recognition that new skills, models and distinctions for making sense of the social world are needed. These skills do not arise as a function of engaging with the tools we have before us; they must be consciously developed and applied and
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