June 2008 - Posts

• Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:43 AM

  Business School 2.0

  If you can hear me over the wind, the ambient noise, and the occasional ambulance siren, here I am talking about "Business School 2.0" with interviewer Richard Collin of Grebnoble Ecole De Management at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Cliff Notes Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: education, Millennials

• Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:35 AM

  Generation Generalizations

  This brutal takedown of Mark Baurlein's The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, or Don't Trust Anyone Under Thirty over at the Huffington Post raises some good points about the perennial efforts Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: popular culture, Social Trends, Millennials

• Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:40 AM

  Good Discussion of "Here Comes Everybody"

  A group of social and political commentators are hashing over Clay Shirky's excellent and important new work, Here Comes Everybody , over at the TPM Cafe section of Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo , one of the Internet's best sites for political news. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Media, collaboration and social computing

• Monday, June 16, 2008 3:40 PM

  Blue Collar Millennials: an Occasional Series

  I've just started doing some research for my next project, a paper for nGenera on "Blue Collar 2.0: How Next Generation Technology and NetGeneration Workers are Transforming Non-Knowledge Work Jobs and Industries," and I came across this great article Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, blue collar

• Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:54 PM

  Next Generation Workforce

  Mike Gotta moderated our next generation workforce panel this morning, where I participated alongside Scott Smith from IBM Global Services and Patti Anklam, a writer and consultant on social networking. Here are a couple of key take-aways from the discussion: Read More... Posted by admin | 1 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, management, collaboration and social computing

• Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:53 PM

  Enterprise 2.0

  So I've been at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston all week, but ironically, have not been able to blog because of technical problems with the wireless connection at the hotel. Apparently it did not occur to someone at Sprint that a conference of Read More... Posted by admin | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, collaboration and social computing

• Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:01 AM

  Two and Out

  The Baby Boomers were, until recently, the largest generation in American history (at 78 million). They dominated American life and culture for more than 50 years - as the first kids raised on TV in the 1950s, the disruptive peaceniks, Vietnam warriors, Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Boomers, GenX, Politics, Silent generation