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Now Google reader gone - how do you get My Digital Footprint again?

So Google's Reader has gone…. I have survived the end of the work and happily my own personal feeds are all still working. I am still using gReader pro now synced to Feedly, but I have lost a number of feeds in the process so I thought I would do an easy up. Options are for feeds to My Digital Footprint are Do nothing If still working, well done The RSS feed www.mydigitalfootprint.com/feeds/posts/default email subscription http://www.mydigitalfootprint.com/ if you click on subscribe you can enter an email – all will work again

Book: Trust is a Choice

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Source: http://www.stephaniekrawinkler.com/book-trust-choice/ Amazon link and   Extract Trust is a universal but culture-bound phenomenon and a critical success factor in corporate life. The author provides a compilation of anthropological theoretical threads on trust. She conducted a long-time ethnography of a company and describes what trust is, how it is established and maintained in this particular organization, and addresses the question whether it can be regained when lost. This elaborated case proves that the anthropological methods can be helpful in researching this abstract topic. An additional chapter outlines and further discusses the used research methods. This book is for students, scholars, and for managers of companies that are interested in trust theory and research as well as business anthropology. Dr. Stephanie A. Krawinkler, is a social and cultural anthropologist, author, and lecturer at the University of Vienna. She has been conducting busin

Personal data filing

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Personal has signed a partnership with FileThis to automatically deliver bills and statements from the leading financial, insurance, utility, health and retail companies directly to Personal.

Douglas Rushkoff on Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

The always-on, simultaneous society in which we have found ourselves has altered our relationship to culture, media, news, politics, economics, and power. We are living in a digital temporal landscape, but instead of exploiting its asynchronous biases, we are misguidedly attempting to extend the time-is-money agenda of the Industrial Age into the current era. The result is a disorienting and dehumanizing mess, where the zombie apocalypse is more comforting to imagine than more of the same. It needn't be this way. Is one view of the world and the direction of Digital! FUD sells…

Wearable technology and Digital Footprints they are inter-related

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_technology

Complexity has just got a more complex

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John Hagel has written an inspiring piece on HBR picking up on the thinking of Drucker in relationship to complexity. Source of thought is here: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/06/how_drucker_thought_about_comp.html The challenge John lays down is “If we are to successfully adapt to the escalating complexity of our environment, we need to invest more time and energy in exploring institutional innovation ” However, I believe that Innovation is fundamentally a useless word in terms of defining a strategic intent as it has a unique meaning for each person.  "Innovation" words come in many guises, with defined mind sets and siloed understanding.  The corporate (instructional) and early stage businesses use the same words but with very different understandings. Often in corporate life the same word is used to understand or express different outcomes.   Within a corporate mind set I see; Revolution and or revolutionary is typically the person or thing that chang

#FeynLabs = bringing computer science to the next generation

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  I am a Fish which if judged by the academic system would believe I am stupid. If I were at school today I would rattle with pills, have my own personal counsellor and shrink, which is why I am a part of FeynLabs . Feynlabs is developing a set of unique techniques to accelerate the learning of programming, computer science and computational thinking among young people. If Girls don’t get excited about computing science by 12 they will probably be lost and we lack the teachers to get them on side.   We have just successfully completed our KickStarter with the Team and now have to start to deliver, all and any help welcome.