Mindsetter LIVE is an analysis and support tool for change management based on the Mindsetter change concept. It allows users to register and process data about change projects, helping them qualify data by reflecting on relevance, realism, and labeling. Mindsetter LIVE could potentially advise, coach, and support users; provide a data collection platform; and track development in change processes. The tool aims to give managers flexible access to Mindsetter's knowledge and models to enhance individual analysis of stakeholders and changes.
1. Information architecture is becoming increasingly important as businesses transition fully to the digital space.
2. User-centered design principles should be at the core of how information architecture and interaction design are approached to ensure solutions meet user needs.
3. The motivations, needs, and experiences of users must be understood through techniques like cognitive empathy in order to create compassionate and effective digital solutions.
Web content: it’s the meat in the sandwich, not the icing on the cake. So why does planning for useful, usable content get short shrift in the design and development process? Thinking about the content is always left until the last minute, always thought to be “somebody else’s problem.” Teams are forced into crisis mode at the 11th hour, trying to deal with content that arrives too late, doesn't fit in the designs, or fails to live up to user expectations. In this session, User Experience expert Karen McGrane will talk about why we fail to plan for content, and how everyone involved can help make the process run more smoothly.
The document discusses water management strategies in Mithapur, India. It outlines initiatives to improve water availability through integrated watershed development, salinity ingress mitigation, and roof rainwater harvesting projects. Specific projects in villages like Tupni and Bhimrana are highlighted, which constructed check dams, farm ponds, and pipelines to harvest and distribute water. Community participation and ownership are emphasized to ensure sustainable management of water resources.
2002 aera making decision support systems useful in the classroomChristopher Thorn
The document discusses improving school improvement processes through better use of decision support systems. It presents two models - an information seeking model and a decision making model - that can help administrators craft improvement processes. Sensemaking is identified as important as decision making. Needs assessment and data collection skills are areas that need strengthening. Rubric-based surveys could help educate schools and provide feedback on data acquisition, management, analysis and application capacities. The document provides examples of rubrics and recommendations for improving data access and use at both district and school levels.
The workbook leads the user through the elements of Crafitti's "Lean Inventive Systems Thinking" framework applied to accelerate innovative thinking in business and technology contexts.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
Government Communication on the Social Web – GOR 2010 / PforzheimDaniel Heine
The document describes an experimental study that examines the effectiveness of government communication using different online tools, including traditional websites and social web platforms allowing participation and interaction. It establishes independent variables like the level of social web use and a dependent variable of communication effect. The experiment simulates communication about a fake law using different treatment websites. The goal is to see if social web tools are more effective than traditional websites at achieving communication outcomes.
Most people believe personality traits are fixed characteristics that are present at birth and persist throughout an individual’s lifetime. Recent research, however, indicates these “fixed” traits are simply the symptoms of a person’s belief system. These beliefs can be so strong, in fact, that they positively or negatively influence every aspect of an individual’s life: sports, business, relationships, parenting, teaching, and coaching.
According to Carol S. Dweck, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation, there are two main belief systems, or mindsets, that people can possess. These mindsets strongly influence the way individuals respond to success and failure, and in Mindset, Dweck uses research, examples of well-known business and sports leaders, and specific scenarios to demonstrate how changing one’s mindset can profoundly affect the outcome of almost every situation. Dweck also explains how understanding the basics of mindsets can help in accepting and understanding relationships and the people who comprise them
1. Information architecture is becoming increasingly important as businesses transition fully to the digital space.
2. User-centered design principles should be at the core of how information architecture and interaction design are approached to ensure solutions meet user needs.
3. The motivations, needs, and experiences of users must be understood through techniques like cognitive empathy in order to create compassionate and effective digital solutions.
Web content: it’s the meat in the sandwich, not the icing on the cake. So why does planning for useful, usable content get short shrift in the design and development process? Thinking about the content is always left until the last minute, always thought to be “somebody else’s problem.” Teams are forced into crisis mode at the 11th hour, trying to deal with content that arrives too late, doesn't fit in the designs, or fails to live up to user expectations. In this session, User Experience expert Karen McGrane will talk about why we fail to plan for content, and how everyone involved can help make the process run more smoothly.
The document discusses water management strategies in Mithapur, India. It outlines initiatives to improve water availability through integrated watershed development, salinity ingress mitigation, and roof rainwater harvesting projects. Specific projects in villages like Tupni and Bhimrana are highlighted, which constructed check dams, farm ponds, and pipelines to harvest and distribute water. Community participation and ownership are emphasized to ensure sustainable management of water resources.
2002 aera making decision support systems useful in the classroomChristopher Thorn
The document discusses improving school improvement processes through better use of decision support systems. It presents two models - an information seeking model and a decision making model - that can help administrators craft improvement processes. Sensemaking is identified as important as decision making. Needs assessment and data collection skills are areas that need strengthening. Rubric-based surveys could help educate schools and provide feedback on data acquisition, management, analysis and application capacities. The document provides examples of rubrics and recommendations for improving data access and use at both district and school levels.
The workbook leads the user through the elements of Crafitti's "Lean Inventive Systems Thinking" framework applied to accelerate innovative thinking in business and technology contexts.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
Government Communication on the Social Web – GOR 2010 / PforzheimDaniel Heine
The document describes an experimental study that examines the effectiveness of government communication using different online tools, including traditional websites and social web platforms allowing participation and interaction. It establishes independent variables like the level of social web use and a dependent variable of communication effect. The experiment simulates communication about a fake law using different treatment websites. The goal is to see if social web tools are more effective than traditional websites at achieving communication outcomes.
Most people believe personality traits are fixed characteristics that are present at birth and persist throughout an individual’s lifetime. Recent research, however, indicates these “fixed” traits are simply the symptoms of a person’s belief system. These beliefs can be so strong, in fact, that they positively or negatively influence every aspect of an individual’s life: sports, business, relationships, parenting, teaching, and coaching.
According to Carol S. Dweck, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation, there are two main belief systems, or mindsets, that people can possess. These mindsets strongly influence the way individuals respond to success and failure, and in Mindset, Dweck uses research, examples of well-known business and sports leaders, and specific scenarios to demonstrate how changing one’s mindset can profoundly affect the outcome of almost every situation. Dweck also explains how understanding the basics of mindsets can help in accepting and understanding relationships and the people who comprise them
The document describes Mindsetter, a change management tool created by Relation Technologies to help organizations manage change processes. Mindsetter uses physical representations and online simulations to facilitate reflection on personal, group, and organizational levels. It incorporates various change management theories and can be used to support different change approaches. Mindsetter requires facilitation and the effects will depend on how it is implemented in an organization.
Recently was invited by Scott Abel and Rahel Baillie to do a workshop at Content Strategy Workshops in Portland, Or. Here's the presentation that helped guide our 2 -1/2 hour work session.
Natalie Hanson, PhD. April 2011 presentation to the Philadelphia chapter of ACM-CHI (Association for Computing Machinery, special interest group on Computer Human Interaction).
The iON Education Solution by TCS provides an integrated suite of modules to help educational institutes modernize their operations and delivery of education. The solution enhances efficiency through features that manage the student lifecycle, learning content, collaboration tools, and administrative functions. It also ensures scalability and cost-efficiency through a pay-as-you-use model. The solution brings benefits such as improved processes, reduced costs, and the ability to adapt to changing needs through automated upgrades.
The document discusses three key drivers of change impacting education: 1) Public services must improve their provision and support economic recovery. 2) Governments have scenarios for online services, including a new "data as a platform" scenario. 3) Governments are moving services to the cloud, with efforts to manage this transition.
What if we asked employers to “rethink” the concept of employee engagement?
What if instead of asking them to think top down or bottom up, we asked them to
look left and right?
1) The document discusses how employers need to embrace new modes of communication like social media, called "Engagement 2.0", to better engage and communicate with employees in today's workplace.
2) It argues that employees now interact more outside of traditional workspaces and communicate in new ways like through social networks, texting, and instant messaging.
3) The document provides examples of how employers can use various social media tools like instant messaging, blogs, videos and networking sites to improve communication, employee engagement, recruitment, training and more.
1) The document discusses how employers need to embrace new modes of communication like social media, called "Engagement 2.0", to better engage and communicate with employees in today's workplace.
2) It provides examples of how various social media like instant messaging, blogs, videos and social networks can be used for different workplace purposes like communication, training, recruitment and wellness programs.
3) It emphasizes that social media allows two-way communication beyond the traditional top-down approaches and engages all generations of employees, but employers need to understand employees' communication preferences and relinquish some control.
authorization in our koncept, Mindsetter, 6styles, publicprofessional ukLeif Sørensen
This document provides information about becoming authorized to use learning concepts developed by Relation Technologies. The authorization process involves a two-day course to learn the theory and tools associated with a given concept. Authorization allows consultants to expand their competencies and integrate the dynamic tools into their teaching, coaching, and consulting. Relation Technologies creates learning designs and architectures based on theoretical foundations to make change management, learning, and development more engaging and effective.
This document discusses the management information system (MIS) and its development and implementation. It describes MIS as recognizing information as a key organizational resource that must be managed through planning and control. It discusses two approaches to developing an MIS - the prototype approach, which involves progressively testing systems on a smaller scale, and the life cycle approach for more static systems. The implementation of an MIS is described as bringing organizational change that must address human factors through guidelines like respecting user needs and gaining management acceptance.
CGAP & Grameen Foundation AppLab Case Study Part 1CGAP
(1) Simulated activities like allocating mock money revealed how people prioritize expenses and cope with emergencies; (2) Visiting homes and schools provided context on asset ownership and education costs; (3) Annual expense trackers showed seasonal income and spending patterns. These methods extracted deeper insights than prior approaches by making financial decisions and behaviors more concrete and tangible.
This document discusses developing staff to support organizational change through embedding transliteracy values. It proposes using the SEDA "Embedding Learning Technologies" course and JISC tools to develop staff as "third space professionals" who can enable new approaches to learning technology. The goals are to develop an institutional approach to staff support and development, increase engagement with technology, and enhance student and staff experience. Connectivism is presented as a pedagogical framework to develop transliteracy qualities like understanding a range of tools and sensing cultural/historical context. Participants would create projects related to their roles to gain authentic experience applying concepts. The intended outcomes include developing shared approaches to technology enhanced learning and fostering collaborative partnerships across departments.
This article describes research into measuring the business value of various Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, podcasts, and social networks. Interviews, observations, and surveys of companies found that these technologies can help improve collaboration and communication. Wikis, blogs, and RSS filters appeared to have the greatest impact in these areas. However, companies remain cautious about deploying many of these technologies and further research is needed to fully understand their impacts. Assessment of real impacts over time across multiple business areas can help organizations determine which technologies provide the most benefit.
This document describes research into measuring the business impact of various Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, podcasts, social networks, and virtual worlds. Interviews, observations, and surveys were conducted with companies across industries to understand how these technologies impact areas like knowledge management, collaboration, customer relationships, innovation, and training. Preliminary findings show that technologies like wikis, blogs, and RSS filters have improved collaboration and communication the most, while virtual worlds have had little impact. Companies are cautiously adopting these technologies and further research is needed to fully understand their contributions to productivity and competitive advantage.
Company "Owned" Social Networks / CommunityiGo2 Pty Ltd
What are the key components of a Company "Owned" Social Network:
- A single platform that supports internal, external and extranet communities so that you can leverage a single technology to support your community needs now and into the future.
- Unparalleled community design that empowers our customers to create award-winning communities and micro-communities with an integrated theme design studio that makes it simple for designers to configure the look and feel of your community according to brand standards.
- A complete set of integrated social applications including but not limited to blogs, forums, wikis, rich media, social search, profiles, microblogging, activity feeds, tagging, tag clouds, RSS, discussion threads and comprehensive community administration.
- Branded mobile communities optimized for modern, touch-screen mobile devices including the Apple iPhone, Blackberry Torch and Android phones
This document provides an agenda and overview for a workshop on evaluation. The workshop covers introductions, the current context around social impact evaluation, why evaluation is important for accountability, learning and capacity building. It discusses evaluation concepts and frameworks, the evolution of evaluation thinking to focus on learning and improvement. The workshop teaches how to develop an evaluation plan, and provides an activity for participants to apply the concepts. It aims to help participants understand how to design and implement effective evaluations.
Empowering user participation with converged semantic servicesAnna Fensel
Slides discussing how semantics empowers community participation. Presented at STI Innsbruck Summit at lake Garda, June 27, 2012. Credits to my present and past employers: STI Innsbruck, FTW, University of Surrey.
Today's emerging organisations face the challenge of integrating people, process and technology. The need of the hour is for a platform that can deploy standardised, internal processes and offer an integrated business network...
The document presents a method for assessing organizational readiness for internal use of social media in information-intensive organizations. It uses organizational semiotics techniques, including containment analysis, organizational morphology, and collateral analysis to identify key factors of readiness. These techniques help provide a systematic approach to analyzing the informal, formal, and technical social norms and relationships within an organization that are important for readiness. The analysis identifies substantive activities, communication activities, and control activities related to potential social media use, as well as surrounding environmental factors. The goal is to develop a method that can help organizations evaluate their preparedness and identify gaps before adopting social media tools internally.
The document describes Mindsetter, a change management tool created by Relation Technologies to help organizations manage change processes. Mindsetter uses physical representations and online simulations to facilitate reflection on personal, group, and organizational levels. It incorporates various change management theories and can be used to support different change approaches. Mindsetter requires facilitation and the effects will depend on how it is implemented in an organization.
Recently was invited by Scott Abel and Rahel Baillie to do a workshop at Content Strategy Workshops in Portland, Or. Here's the presentation that helped guide our 2 -1/2 hour work session.
Natalie Hanson, PhD. April 2011 presentation to the Philadelphia chapter of ACM-CHI (Association for Computing Machinery, special interest group on Computer Human Interaction).
The iON Education Solution by TCS provides an integrated suite of modules to help educational institutes modernize their operations and delivery of education. The solution enhances efficiency through features that manage the student lifecycle, learning content, collaboration tools, and administrative functions. It also ensures scalability and cost-efficiency through a pay-as-you-use model. The solution brings benefits such as improved processes, reduced costs, and the ability to adapt to changing needs through automated upgrades.
The document discusses three key drivers of change impacting education: 1) Public services must improve their provision and support economic recovery. 2) Governments have scenarios for online services, including a new "data as a platform" scenario. 3) Governments are moving services to the cloud, with efforts to manage this transition.
What if we asked employers to “rethink” the concept of employee engagement?
What if instead of asking them to think top down or bottom up, we asked them to
look left and right?
1) The document discusses how employers need to embrace new modes of communication like social media, called "Engagement 2.0", to better engage and communicate with employees in today's workplace.
2) It argues that employees now interact more outside of traditional workspaces and communicate in new ways like through social networks, texting, and instant messaging.
3) The document provides examples of how employers can use various social media tools like instant messaging, blogs, videos and networking sites to improve communication, employee engagement, recruitment, training and more.
1) The document discusses how employers need to embrace new modes of communication like social media, called "Engagement 2.0", to better engage and communicate with employees in today's workplace.
2) It provides examples of how various social media like instant messaging, blogs, videos and social networks can be used for different workplace purposes like communication, training, recruitment and wellness programs.
3) It emphasizes that social media allows two-way communication beyond the traditional top-down approaches and engages all generations of employees, but employers need to understand employees' communication preferences and relinquish some control.
authorization in our koncept, Mindsetter, 6styles, publicprofessional ukLeif Sørensen
This document provides information about becoming authorized to use learning concepts developed by Relation Technologies. The authorization process involves a two-day course to learn the theory and tools associated with a given concept. Authorization allows consultants to expand their competencies and integrate the dynamic tools into their teaching, coaching, and consulting. Relation Technologies creates learning designs and architectures based on theoretical foundations to make change management, learning, and development more engaging and effective.
This document discusses the management information system (MIS) and its development and implementation. It describes MIS as recognizing information as a key organizational resource that must be managed through planning and control. It discusses two approaches to developing an MIS - the prototype approach, which involves progressively testing systems on a smaller scale, and the life cycle approach for more static systems. The implementation of an MIS is described as bringing organizational change that must address human factors through guidelines like respecting user needs and gaining management acceptance.
CGAP & Grameen Foundation AppLab Case Study Part 1CGAP
(1) Simulated activities like allocating mock money revealed how people prioritize expenses and cope with emergencies; (2) Visiting homes and schools provided context on asset ownership and education costs; (3) Annual expense trackers showed seasonal income and spending patterns. These methods extracted deeper insights than prior approaches by making financial decisions and behaviors more concrete and tangible.
This document discusses developing staff to support organizational change through embedding transliteracy values. It proposes using the SEDA "Embedding Learning Technologies" course and JISC tools to develop staff as "third space professionals" who can enable new approaches to learning technology. The goals are to develop an institutional approach to staff support and development, increase engagement with technology, and enhance student and staff experience. Connectivism is presented as a pedagogical framework to develop transliteracy qualities like understanding a range of tools and sensing cultural/historical context. Participants would create projects related to their roles to gain authentic experience applying concepts. The intended outcomes include developing shared approaches to technology enhanced learning and fostering collaborative partnerships across departments.
This article describes research into measuring the business value of various Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, podcasts, and social networks. Interviews, observations, and surveys of companies found that these technologies can help improve collaboration and communication. Wikis, blogs, and RSS filters appeared to have the greatest impact in these areas. However, companies remain cautious about deploying many of these technologies and further research is needed to fully understand their impacts. Assessment of real impacts over time across multiple business areas can help organizations determine which technologies provide the most benefit.
This document describes research into measuring the business impact of various Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, podcasts, social networks, and virtual worlds. Interviews, observations, and surveys were conducted with companies across industries to understand how these technologies impact areas like knowledge management, collaboration, customer relationships, innovation, and training. Preliminary findings show that technologies like wikis, blogs, and RSS filters have improved collaboration and communication the most, while virtual worlds have had little impact. Companies are cautiously adopting these technologies and further research is needed to fully understand their contributions to productivity and competitive advantage.
Company "Owned" Social Networks / CommunityiGo2 Pty Ltd
What are the key components of a Company "Owned" Social Network:
- A single platform that supports internal, external and extranet communities so that you can leverage a single technology to support your community needs now and into the future.
- Unparalleled community design that empowers our customers to create award-winning communities and micro-communities with an integrated theme design studio that makes it simple for designers to configure the look and feel of your community according to brand standards.
- A complete set of integrated social applications including but not limited to blogs, forums, wikis, rich media, social search, profiles, microblogging, activity feeds, tagging, tag clouds, RSS, discussion threads and comprehensive community administration.
- Branded mobile communities optimized for modern, touch-screen mobile devices including the Apple iPhone, Blackberry Torch and Android phones
This document provides an agenda and overview for a workshop on evaluation. The workshop covers introductions, the current context around social impact evaluation, why evaluation is important for accountability, learning and capacity building. It discusses evaluation concepts and frameworks, the evolution of evaluation thinking to focus on learning and improvement. The workshop teaches how to develop an evaluation plan, and provides an activity for participants to apply the concepts. It aims to help participants understand how to design and implement effective evaluations.
Empowering user participation with converged semantic servicesAnna Fensel
Slides discussing how semantics empowers community participation. Presented at STI Innsbruck Summit at lake Garda, June 27, 2012. Credits to my present and past employers: STI Innsbruck, FTW, University of Surrey.
Today's emerging organisations face the challenge of integrating people, process and technology. The need of the hour is for a platform that can deploy standardised, internal processes and offer an integrated business network...
The document presents a method for assessing organizational readiness for internal use of social media in information-intensive organizations. It uses organizational semiotics techniques, including containment analysis, organizational morphology, and collateral analysis to identify key factors of readiness. These techniques help provide a systematic approach to analyzing the informal, formal, and technical social norms and relationships within an organization that are important for readiness. The analysis identifies substantive activities, communication activities, and control activities related to potential social media use, as well as surrounding environmental factors. The goal is to develop a method that can help organizations evaluate their preparedness and identify gaps before adopting social media tools internally.
6styles is a simulation tool that challenges leadership styles and skills through problem scenarios. It is intended to provide insight into leadership styles and develop management skills. Participants experiment with roles and decisions that reveal their leadership style and receive feedback and theoretical instruction on different styles. The goal is to help participants understand their own style and develop a leadership plan.