John W Lewis – observations

Entries from June 2009

Organizational adoption

2009 June 10 (Week 24: Wednesday) · Leave a Comment

Lately, I have been thinking about the adoption of technologies by organizations.

Fred Wilson’s blog post raised related issues for consumers and stimulated a lively discussion about what characteristics are important to adoption. My interest is similar for organizations, but is more related to the channels of communication used for this purpose then in the characteristics which determine selection. (more…)

Categories: learning

Learning and social networks

2009 June 4 (Week 23: Thursday) · Leave a Comment

My interest in learning, and in the ways in which we can enable it, makes conversations like this really interesting.

This is my (very rapidly composed) take on it. I write it here because my intended comment in that conversation grew in size so fast that, before I could get it out, it seemed to have become too large for a comment; that, also says something about the medium/channel communication!

So here goes … (more…)

Categories: learning · modelling · software