Comreg or Ofcom?
Following yesterday’s Comreg decision in Ireland in the UK Ofcom has published an initial consultation document assessing how the mobile sector delivers on the needs of UK citizens and consumers and posing questions about the future of competition and regulatory policy.
Performance enhancement & Web 2.0
Performance support is something that’s been on my mind lately. A number of clients I work with would like to achieve a “do more with same staff” culture given changes in budgets and economic conditions.
This lead to discussions about how systems can do more to support performance and exist to coach staff on areas that may be beyond their original areas of expertise. It’s the type of thing that is beyond the scope of formal LMS applications or the simplistic approach of a FAQ or WIKI.
We think a combination of twitters, tweets, blogs and blended learning tools would do the trick. Twitter to find an expert, tweet to answer the question, rapid blended-learning tools to reinforce the experience learning or follow up. The results are then managed and used as part of the organizations corporate knowledge or formalized into ongoing training.
Anybody out there doing anything similar?
Digital media vulnerable to downturn too!
Strategy Analytics have a good comparision of digital revenue growth which compares Q2-08 and Q2-07, showing Google growth at 3.5% against a general slowing trend of 0.5% growth overall.
Apple repeated the trend of this time last year at -7% for the quarter but they were still +9% for 2007. AOL and Yahoo are still in the doldrums and Microsoft looks a little softer, so more acquisitions look in the pipeline!
See the press release at www.strategyanalytics.com/
Gartner: Hype Cycle for emerging technologies, 2008
Technologies and trends at or approaching the Hype Cycle peak include green IT, cloud computing and social networking platforms. Corporate use of virtual worlds and Web 2.0 are slipping into the Trough of Disillusionment, while SOA begins its ascent of the Slope of Enlightenment.
Discussed here.
IS KM dead?
I tend to find myself in violent agreement with many of the views expressed in this interview.
From engagedlearning.net
Cuil is not cool
I have been fascinated by the publicity that Cuil has managed to generate in its brief lifetime.
It’s been a rough ride however, with many of the reviews tending towards the negative. Although the strategy may have been to launch it and fix-it-as-we-go (the search for George W. Bush now works) the poor performance in the initial period will do long term damage to its reputation.
From a communications standpoint better management would have mitigated this damage: rather than a full-on launch combined with the confident assertion that “we are here to compete with Google”, a public beta would have been a better strategy.
The site claimed 50 million searches in its first 24 hours. This goes to show that there is an appetite out there for an alternative to Google, Yahoo, Ask etc. This must be a positive for Cuil, its management and its investors.
The question now is: has the initial reaction done too much damage?