The SIIA just released a transcript of our panel discussion at the Ed Tech Industry Summit last month in San Francisco which you can download here (pdf). Transcripts or videos of all the presentations and panels at the conference are listed here. Check it out!
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The New Convergence, Redux
Published June 27th, 2008 in Business & Finance and Educational Technologies. 0 CommentsSocial Networking on the Rise
Published May 30th, 2008 in Business & Finance, Culture, Social Networking, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsFrom the number of inquiries we receive and the projects we’re managing lately — blogs, forums, wikis, user content sites, multi-player games and sims — it’s clear there’s tremendous demand for social networking. Out of curiosity I pinged Indeed.com and found this trajectory for social networking jobs:
“social networking” Job Trends
“social networking” […]
The New Convergence
Published May 20th, 2008 in Business & Finance, Educational Technologies, Serious Games, Social Networking and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsThe new convergence of products that combine aspects of online games and simulations, social networking and user generated content in the service of learning was the topic of our panel at the SIIA’s annual Ed Tech Industry Summit:
Krista Marks, Chief Executive Officer, Kerpoof
Carly Shuler, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Dave McCool, President, Muzzy […]
Spy vs. Spy
Published May 6th, 2008 in Business & Finance, Culture, Educational Technologies and Serious Games. 0 CommentsAs a cold-war baby one of my favorite cartoon strips was Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. That all flashed back to me a few years ago at the second Serious Games Summit in Crystal City, VA, just across the highway from the Pentagon.
There, it didn’t take long to realize — with equal measures of horror […]
Getting Down to Business
Published April 4th, 2008 in Business & Finance, Culture, Emerging Technologies, Serious Games and Social Networking. 0 CommentsFed up with leaving a huge carbon footprint as you travel on business? As the Virtual Worlds conference concludes here in New York, David Wortley of the Serious Games Institute in Coventry, UK writes that CNBC Europe has broadcast a feature story that discusses the use of virtual worlds for distance meetings and other core […]
But Will it Fly?
Published January 2nd, 2008 in Business & Finance, Dust or Magic, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsWith the new year comes new resolutions, intentions and plans. For those of the product development persuasion, that means continuing to pick the right ideas to champion, design, develop, and bring to market. If only it was so tidy and predictable. Much as I’ve tried to normalize product development — and consistently pick the […]
Bubbles Big and Small
Published December 31st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsHaving lived through the first Internet bubble I see as many differences with “Web 2.0″ as similarities to the madness of the ’90s. Still, this video from nextNY.org is too funny and timely not to share. So enjoy your tiny bubbles tonight, let’s avoid making another big one, and see you next year!
The Best of 2007
Published December 21st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Dust or Magic, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Project Management, Serious Games, Uncategorized, User Experience, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsI decided to publish a readers “best-of-2007″ list for my final post of the year based on a Google Analytics site report. Here are a dozen plus two of the best stories on this blog in 2007 (click on the title to go to that post) ranked by number of visits:
Games Meet the Social Web
A […]
Free: The Past & Future of a Radical Price
Published December 20th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsI’m betting that like me, most of you didn’t attend Nokia World last month where Chris Anderson gave the keynote and a preview of his next book, Free.
For those who don’t know him, Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine as well as the author of The Long Tail (book, blog) on niche marketing. […]
Expected Consequences
Published December 17th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsThe Los Angeles Times reported this morning that several groups of striking writers are meeting with venture capitalists about funding the production of straight-to-the-web programming — independently of Hollywood studios and at odds with the union — a move not unlike the way United Artists (now part of MGM) was founded by Charlie Chaplin, […]
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