Ideas and best practice discussions about visual design and instructional design strategies.
This ingenious little app is taking the cooliverse to new levels of fun.
Now, I’m asking for your help in an informal survey. If you’re playing Draw Something, please add a comment below that summarizes why it’s so much fun.
Chances are, the answer is yes, according to research firm Gartner, which believes the personal cloud will replace the PC as the center of our digital lives by 2014.
“Major trends in client computing have shifted the market away from a focus on personal computers to a broader device perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices,” Steve Kleynhans, says research vice president at Gartner. “Emerging cloud services will become the glue that connects the web of devices that users choose to access during the different aspects of their daily life.”
This will require enterprises to “fundamentally rethink how they deliver applications and services to users.”
Gartner says a number of factors are converging to create a perfect personal cloud storm by 2014. Just some of the reasons include:
Through the democratization of technology, users of all types and status within organizations can now have similar technology available to them.
The advent of the cloud for servicing individual users opens a whole new level of opportunity. Every user can now have a scalable and nearly infinite set of resources available for whatever they need to do….
“The combination of these megatrends, coupled with advances in new enabling technologies, is ushering in the era of the personal cloud,” Gartner’s Kleynhans said. “In this new world, the specifics of devices will become less important for the organization to worry about. Users will use a collection of devices, with the PC remaining one of many options, but no one device will be the primary hub. Rather, the personal cloud will take on that role. Access to the cloud and the content stored or shared in the cloud will be managed and secured, rather than solely focusing on the device itself.”
Jon Udell, blogger for Cloudline, writes:
The cloud platform has become a real option for companies needing managed, pay-as-you-use IT capacity…I see signs of the personal cloud in services like Dropbox, Evernote, and Flickr. You can use them for free, or you can pay for higher capacity and enhanced customer service. But the personal cloud also arises from a way of thinking about, and using, any of the services the web provides.
Your turn: Will you abandon your your personal computer and move the personal cloud to the center of your digital life?
Facebook Prediction of Future Job Performance Trumps Traditional Personality Assessments…
Wow. What a statement!
If this Northern Illinois University study is correct, and Facebook is a better barometer of a candidate’s potential job performance than traditional personality assessments, what does that mean for hiring managers? Do we simply spend five to 10 minutes perusing candidates’ Facebook profiles to predict future job performance?
Can Facebook Predict Future Job Performance? – Talent Management magazine.
And, what does YOUR Facebook profile say about your chances for success in your next role?
Puts a whole new perspective on that comment you made on the game last night, eh?
Design. Design. Design…
It’s the secret behind the success of Pinterest.
Check out Sahil Lavingia’s perspective on the design genius behind wildly popular stuff-sharing phenomenon, Pinterest: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669189/pinterests-founding-designer-shares-his-dead-simple-design-philosophy
The bottom line?
Design isn’t just wire frames or visual style; it’s about the product as a whole.
Here’s my favorite part:
“…Design should be considered a facet of everything you do, as well as a means of improving your business. Imagine if your site were to slow down. What would you do? You’d try to make it faster, or find an engineer that could. You’d make a conscious design decision to make your site quicker to use, because you understand that doing so will make your offerings more accessible and user-friendly. Apply that principle of improvement to everything else.”
Lavingia is the designer/founder/CEO of Gumroad, and was previously on the founding team of Pinterest.
You may have seen Tom Peters views on Leadership and Success in 140 characters posted on Twitter:
Success in 140 characters: “Attack EVERY project you do with Reckless ENTHUSIASM and a Passionate Commitment to EXCELLENCE!”
Can’t you just hear the passion in his voice behind this simple credo?
Leadership in 140 characters: Energy. Enthusiasm. Passion. “People first” in her bone marrow. Curiosity. Integrity. “Ready. Fire. Aim.” Sense of humor. A good accountant.
Now it’s your turn. How would you tweet the secrets to leadership and success in 140 characters or less?
For more from Tom Peters check out his great site, www.tompeters.com
Susan E. Hendrich 