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Exploring #Humanize: A Collision Course

Jamie Notter

Exploring #Humanize: A Collision Course. Social media (and computer technology in general) changes at the speed of light. The rest of the book, of course, talks about how we can create more human organizations moving forward. Exploring #Humanize: A Collision Course | Humanize | Scoop.it. December 2005 (5).

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Even if your association is trapped in a sea of competition, you can change course and sail toward possibility. Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.”

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2019 Tech Trends: 3 Factors Associations Should Watch

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Remember how, around 2005 or so, it seemed like PCs (at least on the Windows side) were starting to stagnate, leading to longer upgrade cycles in offices, as much of the existing tech “just worked”? It’s like 2005 all over again. It’s like 2005 all over again. But things are starting to slow back down again.

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November 1963 Through the Lens of the Internet Age

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But I’m gripped by a few thoughts on the difference today’s technology would have made if it had existed on that day in Dallas. In 2005, when Pope Benedict was announced, Vatican City was a sea of faces. Of course, smartphones are only one part of our photographic technology. The first involves smartphones.

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The Cruft Challenge: When It’s Time to Disrupt Your Own Technology

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We all have software like United Airlines’ flight-tracking system, software that definitely needs the occasional upgrade, that is built from technology that predates some of your own employees. The hard part, of course, is figuring out how to do it in a nondisruptive fashion. Learn to Leapfrog Yourself.

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Don’t Fool Yourself: Your Technology Has an Expiration Date

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While the costs of upgrading basic technology building blocks like hard drives certainly add up, delaying those upgrades comes with another price tag—one that could really hurt. Which, of course, is super-useful, even if it creates a few problems with disruption along the way. A hard drive has to last longer than a CD, right?

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Public Discourse on Humanize

Jamie Notter

Of course, when it’s YOUR book, it always somehow feels more unique, unpredictable, even magical. For example, Holly Ross, Executive Director of the Nonprofit Technology Network, did a great post where she actually asks her readers (staff at nonprofit organizations, generally) to give her feedback on her reactions to the book.