The Four-Year Career
Lessons from the new world of quicksilver work, where “career planning” is an oxymoron.
A companion piece to How To Lead A Creative Life:
Social Media: Evolving From Long Form To Push Button
In the evolution of social media over the last decade, the trend has been a move from long form content, which has high friction of participation (both on the production and consumption side) to ever lower requirements placed on a user to participate in a conversation.If I were tumblr I’d be so insulted by this article. Pinterest is del.icio.us with pictures. Tumblr is community and expression in a way that is genuinely unique on the internet, at a scale that is completely unmatched. Articles like this are one more reason I have so much disdain for most Silicon Valley trend bloggers.
Pinterest is a bad example. While it certainly is an interesting product, Percolate (well, prior to its pivot) and it’s ilk are far more interesting. Problem is, too few curation apps focus on the power user, and those that do (Storify) push too far in one direction at the cost of more simplified interfaces. Balancing the two is the way to go. Tumblr gets closest to this at the moment. Tumblr should consider figuring out a way to easily tell multi-part stories in posts simply. The issue is not that curation needs to be dumbed down; the issue is that it needs to be fluid.
4 Great Reads for Digital Marketers in 2012
4 great reads to start the new year off right:
5 Best Practices for Digital Marketers in 2012
12 Industry Leaders Share Advice For Marketers Starting Out In 2012
And one link to add to your content tactics:
6 Turnkey Tools for Content Distribution
Happy New Years Everyone!
The end of social - O’Reilly Radar (via juliangutman)
Def agree!
That’s why i’m long curation platforms such as Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.
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I’ve seen this tweet before, but, still, it goes to show how much more of an impact a simple picture can make.
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Could Checking Facebook in Class Help Students Focus?
It may sound counterintuitive to use technology—the very thing that’s so distracting—to help students focus, but Rosen says his tech break concept “works amazingly.” For every half-hour of focused work, he recommends allowing a 15-minute tech break. Once a students sees that nothing is happening on Facebook or send a friend that critical text message—they’re able to refocus, he says.
The problem is that schools and colleges aren’t set up to accommodate tech breaks, no matter how effective they are. A professor teaching an hour-long economics class isn’t going to tack on two 15-minute breaks for students to play Angry Birds or tweet. Middle and high school schedules are equally inflexible, and they’re further constricted by state-mandated curricula.
But technological distractions aren’t going away any time soon, so it might not be a bad idea for teachers and professors to give students a mini-break—just a minute or two—to text or check their email every once in awhile. It might not be the ideal solution, but if it helps tech-addicted students refocus on what’s going on, it’s worth a shot.
» via GOOD
And what about boosting productivity with breaks at work? It’s all about moderation
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Los Angeles sixth-grade developer Thomas Suarez teaches other students how to make apps with his ‘App Club’ at school. Why aren’t App Clubs standard fare at all schools, just like French, drama, and music?
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Los Angeles sixth-grade developer Thomas Suarez teaches other students how to make apps with his ‘App Club’ at school. Why aren’t App Clubs standard fare at all schools, just like French, drama, and music?
