Revelnnovation

The Mayo Clinic is doing some amazing things in the innovation space, using service design. Mayo has a three year track record for holding an annual Innovation conference that engages the whole organization with social media tools. Features of the gathering that helps spur on energy, creativity and innovation include:

• Diversity, 400 or so executives & thought leaders in diverse disciplines of large enterprise innovation are invited mix & mingle at the conference

• Tools, using new engagement tools in social media, such as SocialText, (described on a business page on Facebook)

• Processes: Fostering "microsharing" - a process using the above two factors, in order to extend creative thinking to the whole organization, 50,000 people

• Engagement, Mayo staffers not at the conference appoint themselves as connectors and advocates of new ideas and innovations to carry ideas forward to further development and possible implementation

• Published, Mayo cited as a case study cited in ~ The New Social Learning, Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner, 2010

Check it out and see what you think:
http://blog.centerforinnovation.mayo.edu/

As for me, I'm including them in my presentation at the local OD Summit this week in Michigan (organization development) with the title: Social Media: Choosing Change Leadership & Strategic Agility over Chaos.

More about the local, Michigan OD Summit conference is available here: www.odsummit.com

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Digital New York Times PAID subscription:  OK - I'm NOW, just now, ready for this.

• iPad √ check. 
•  iPhone √ check. (The iPhone is my 3G workhorse - I can't live without it work-wise...)

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You get what you pay for...or someone pays for...

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The light tablets are all ready for PRIME TIME, sez I.  Whether it is an iPad, a Samsung big pocket size or Motorola Xoom, whatever, this is truely the year of tablet content delivery.  Baby boomers are doing it.  Your grandmother might even be doing it. 

Ever since I saw tablet sized readers via some part of the Star Trek franchise, I was hoping. I think I can finally let go of my HandSpring Visor component system jones, as the tablets are really doing it for me.

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Photos:  by Deb, Mohan and his Samsung pocket tablet this January, 2011.

Shoop, shoop, shoop, finger touch:
1) Light, agile tablet: It's less wieldy than flipping through all that newsprint on Sundays.

2) Cleaner too! No newsprint inky fingers. Pecan rolls sticky fingers with breakfast are another story.

Reasonable price - high end subsidies:
3) The Times is a fairly expensive paper for good reason, to pay for the level of in-depth trained journalism.  (Fox News arguements aside.) This English major never ceases to enjoy the wonderful quality of writing in this paper.

4) Daily paper subscriptions, on one count, are .99 a month rising to 8.99 a week for digital for iPad and smartphone. There are other deals out there.

5) Subsidies: Depending on who you are and what you do, Lincoln and other companies courting you might subsidize your subscription for one year. Sounds like a smart move to me.  You get what you pay for, or what someone out there pays for.

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 Your grandmother might even be doing it. 

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Rich content:
6) Movies, slide shows, audio narration, citizen journalism are all value adds in the digital platforms. I love hearing about fashion on the street from the cool guy with a New York Accent:

7) Personalization & customization: I agree it is cool, not creepy. I'm more ready for it now in 2011. In 2010, it was still a bit creepy.

Ann Arbor News R.I.P. - AnnArbor.com is still finding its way.  I just discontinued my New York Times Sunday only paper version this past January.  (The soy ink based papers get recycled in my garden.)  The guy on the phone was really good about it and let me know what was in the works for the iPad.

Via iPad, I look forward to my daily read every day, and we have, in this household, one subsidized subscription and one that I've already paid for.  For quality journalism, I'm glad to do it.   I want it.  It backs up my twitter, Facebook, citizen journalism mania and restores balance to the force.  

--Deb

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Posterous (considered by some to be Tumblr’s biggest rival) is finally allowing users to create pages to accompany their blogs.   Unlike Tumblr however, Posterous is enabling fans of the service to add a few extra features to pages that may appeal to keep-it-simple bloggers, not to mention spammers as well.

We decided to use the same great editor that you are already using for posts. This means you can edit rich text, upload any media, and add and edit photo galleries. All of the cool features that we’ve created for posts—like link auto-expansion and syntax highlighting—come along for the ride with pages. [...]

We allow you to create a page that redirects to a static URL. You may want to do this if you want to add a link to one of your social networks, or to a page tTo [sic] do this, simply click on the “Page Options” tab, and add a URL where it says “Redirect to:”. When your visitors click on a link to a redirect page, they will be redirected to the URL you specified. (Official Posterous Blog)

Although it’s great to see Posterous finally add pages (which is considered a standard feature in Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr), the page redirect feature is potentially dangerous as one could redirect a curious user towards a site filled with malware.

Perhaps Posterous could consider giving users about to be redirected a link to the actual site (similar to how Facebook warns users who are about to be redirected towards another site).

via blogherald.com   by Darnell Clayton