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The Social Organization

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 7:01:38 PST

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As a leader it's your job to get the most talent, energy, knowledge and innovation out of your employees. But how do you tap into that collective intelligence? And how do you go beyond simply connecting your workforce to actually seeing results from those connections? The answer is social technology. In this book, two of Gartner's lead analysts share their experience working with more than 300 co ...

Reorganize for resilience

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 7:01:17 PST

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In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're 'customer-focused', but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why? Because they're stymied by the rigid 'silos' they're organized around. In "Reorganize for Resilience", Ranjay Gulati reveals how resilie ...

Outliers

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:59:35 PST

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From the bestselling author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers: The Story of Success" overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from ...

Made to Stick

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:59:17 PST

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Mark Twain once observed, “ A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—businessmen, educators, politicians, journalists, and others—struggle to make their ideas “stick.” Why do some ideas thrive whil ...

Organizzare la conoscenza

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:58:13 PST

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Architettura dell'informazione

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:58:10 PST

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L'architettura dell'informazione, cioè la strutturazione e l'organizzazione dei dati e degli strumenti che ne consentono l'impiego, non si applica solo alle pagine web, ma a ogni oggetto appartenente alla quotidianità. Spesso non ce ne si accorge, abituati come si è a determinate soluzioni, determinate forme, ma quando l'informazione diventa più densa e complessa, legandosi magari a oggetti (o si ...

Enterprise 2.0

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:56:59 PST

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In this compelling book, Andrew McAfee--a veteran researcher and writer on the business impact of technology, and the originator of the phrase "Enterprise 2.0 ...

Empowered

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:56:55 PST

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Is Your Company empowered for Success? You know it's happening within your organization. Your people, armed with cheap, accessible technology, are connecting with customers and building innovative new solutions. But who are these creative problem-solvers? How can you be one? And just as important how can you lead them? We call them heroes: highly empowered and resourceful operatives. Your company ...

Delivering Happiness

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:54:26 PST

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In his first book, Tony Hsieh - the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos, explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Using anecdotes and stories from his own experiences and from other companies, Hsieh provides concrete ways that companies can achieve unprecedented success. Even ...

Engage

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:53:54 PST

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Foreword. Preface. Introduction: Welcome to the Revolution. Part One: The New Reality of Marketing and Customer Service. Chapter 1 The Social Media Manifesto: Engage or Die. Chapter 2 The Case for Social Media, by the Numbers. Part Two: Forever Students of New Media. Chapter 3 New Media University: Social Media 10 ...

The Future of Work

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:53:12 PST

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A renowned visionary on organizational theory provides the first workable model for creating—and managing within—the organization of the future. Malone shows us that our current notions about decentralization and empowerment merely scratch the surface of what will be possible as technological and economic forces render “command and control” management obsolete. In its place will be a “coordina ...

CRM at the Speed of Light

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:50:27 PST

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A social revolution in how we communicate has taken place in recent years. Smartphones, social web tools, and the instant availability of information in an aggregated and organized way provide real-time intelligence to customers, not just the enterprise. Social CRM is critical to business success in today's hyper-connected environment. Customers' expectations are so great and their demands so emp ...

The Hyper-Social Organization

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:49:25 PST

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BE HYPER-SOCIAL. GET HYPER-SUCCESSFUL. "A thought-provoking read and a comprehensive introduction to today's business challenges as social media and social networking become increasingly vital to success...Highly recommended". ("Choice magazine"). "If you want to really understand what makes some online communities thrive while others shrivel and fade, you have come to the right place. Francois G ...

The Power of Co-Creation

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:49:05 PST

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Apple embraced co-creation to enhance the speed and scope of its innovation, generating over $1 billion for its App-Store partner-developers in two years, even as it overtook Microsoft in market value. Starbucks launched its online platform MyStarbucksIdea.com to tap into ideas from customers and turbocharged a turnaround. Unilever turned to co-creation for redesigning product lines such as Sun ...

The Ultimate Online Customer Service Guide

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:48:49 PST

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Make your online customers happy-and create new ones-with this winning guide Social media gives you an unparalleled vehicle for connecting and engaging with an unlimited number of customers. Yet this vehicle is different than other, more impersonal forms. With social media, reps become part of their customers' lives. They follow back. They handle complaints immediately. They wish customers "happ ...

The Hidden Power of Your Customers

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:48:28 PST

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Winning strategies to keep your existing customers coming back A business's current customer base needs to be considered among the company's most valuable assets. Discover the practical tools to preserve and grow this asset-and boost your business-by tapping into The Hidden Power of Your Customers. Existing customers are the key to ongoing business growth. They are the people who already know yo ...

Mastering the Unpredictable

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:48:01 PST

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The Leader's Guide to Radical Management

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:47:48 PST

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Can established organizations learn how to innovate? The Leader's Guide to Radical Management shows how innovation can become an organization-wide capability, a part of an entire firm's DNA. The need is urgent. The economy-wide rate of return on assets is one quarter of 1965 levels. Workers are disgruntled. Customers are frustrated. Brands are unraveling. Executive turnover is accelerating. Inn ...

Closing the Engagement Gap

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:47:23 PST

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Includes index.

Social Networking for Business

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:46:59 PST

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The First Best-Practice Guide to Executing Any Type of Social Computing Project Organizations today aren't just participating in social networking, collaborative computing, and online communities--they are depending on those communities to play crucially important roles in their business. But these collaborative environments don't just manage themselves: To succeed, they must be guided and nurtur ...

The 2020 Workplace

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:46:10 PST

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The workplace of the future is being shaped today by Web 2.0 - a collection of breakthrough social media technologies - and the Millennial Generation, born after 1980. The entrance of these hyper-connected workers will put increased pressure on employers to overhaul their approach to talent management. "The 2020 Workplace" offers a practical game plan companies can use to transform their business ...

The Now Revolution

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:45:54 PST

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The social web has changed the way we do business forever The future of your company is not in measured, considered responses and carefully planned initiatives. Business today is about near-instantaneous response. About doing the best you can with extremely limited information. About every customer being a reporter, and every reporter being a customer. About winning and losing customers in real-t ...

Social Media ROI

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:45:41 PST

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"Blanchard is demanding. He won't allow you to flip through this book, nod your head, and leave. If you're in, you're going to have to invest to get your rewards." --Chris Brogan, president of Human Business Works "Social media isn't inexpensive; it's different expensive. The human effort required to do it right is significant, and not knowing precisely how social media helps your business and ho ...

Great by Choice

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 6:45:22 PST

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Smart Business, Social Business

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:13:02 PST

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This book will help organizations evolve into a fully collaborative social business. It serves as a step by step playbook to achieve organizational change, process efficiencies and technology acumen: * Proven solutions for the real people, process, and technology obstacles businesses face in using social media behind the firewall. * How to have the successful internal conversations with stakehol ...

Information architecture

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:23:41 PST

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Outliers

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:21:48 PST

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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, thei ...

The Power of Pull

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:18:36 PST

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Three celebrated thinkers and business consultants explain the striking implications ofour shift from a Push economy to a Pull economy

Community management

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:18:31 PST

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Questo libro nasce dalla convinzione che l'evoluzione del Web - quello che oggi si chiama Web 2.0 - stia cambiando il funzionamento dei mercati e delle organizzazioni. Questa trasformazione apre grandi spazi di innovazione per tutti i processi strategici aziendali, e in particolare per la gestione della conoscenza e dei meccanismi di apprendimento. Si aprono nuove possibilità di sviluppo organiz ...

Open Leadership

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:18:20 PST

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An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control "Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic" are the current leadership mantras-but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness-leaders do not know how to be open and be in control. This must-have resource will help the modern ...

Il futuro del management

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:18:14 PST

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Se un dirigente degli anni Sessanta fosse catapultato dalla Macchina del Tempo nei corridoi di una delle nostre aziende vagherebbe spaesato tra nuove tecnologie, prodotti, sistemi, modelli di comunicazione, fino a quando qualcuno gli illustrasse gli stili di management in uso. Gli stessi che conosceva lui. Uguali. Immutati. "Il futuro del management" evidenzia ciò che tutti sanno ma che nessuno a ...

Usabilità. Individuare e risolvere i problemi

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:17:42 PST

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Surplus cognitivo

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:17:10 PST

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Questo è un libro sul tempo libero. Qualcosa di molto comune, certo, ma pensate di considerare il tempo libero dell’umanità come un unico insieme, una specie di surplus cognitivo, e di utilizzarlo attraverso i nuovi media e le possibilità di condivisione e di dialogo che offrono. Mentre i media del Ventesimo secolo permettevano un unico evento, il consumo, il cablaggio dell’umanità ci permette di ...

Design-Driven innovation. Cambiare le regole della competizione innovando radicalmente il significato dei prodotti e dei servizi

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:12:39 PST

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Free

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:11:58 PST

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Invertising

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:10:34 PST

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L’advertising si trasforma e cambia direzione: una vera e propria inversione di marcia della pubblicità, dove la creatività diventa fondamentale per catalizzare l’attenzione del pubblico, non più considerato come un semplice target. In nome della rilevanza, dell’etica e di un rinnovato patto di fiducia tra brand e individui, il dialogo si sostituisce ai monologhi della réclame, la comunicazio ...

Intranet 2.0

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 1:15:08 PST

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Le intranet aziendali, grazie al Web 2.0, stanno cambiando per trasformarsi in nuovi spazi sociali nei quali lavoro, comunicazione e condivisione si sovrappongono e dove relazioni e processi si intersecano per dare vita a vere community di dipendenti. I nuovi strumenti di condivisione possono aumentare l'efficienza, favorire la collaborazione orizzontale, migliorare i processi e valorizzare le pe ...

Blog in azienda

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 7:27:02 PST

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Il blog è nato come luogo in cui registrare le proprie idee su qualsiasi argomento, ma ha assunto con il tempo anche una forma commerciale, ed è proprio di questo aspetto che si occupa il volume: il blog aziendale, nuovo strumento di marketing, che consente alle imprese di mantenere più strettamente il contatto con il proprio pubblico di clienti, utilizzatori e collaboratori e di esplorare nuove ...

La nuova comunicazione interna

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 7:21:10 PST

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La comunicazione all'interno delle aziende sta cambiando. Sempre più spesso sentiamo parlare di processi di comunicazione, di partecipazione dei dipendenti alla vita dell'impresa, di internal marketing. Sembra dunque che si annunci una svolta nelle organizzazioni, legata al vasto tema della comunicazione interna. Tuttavia non sempre le cose vanno lisce, e le iniziative di comunicazione interna tr ...

Wikipatterns

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 3:41:30 PST

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This book provides practical, proven advice for encouraging adoption of your wiki project and growing it into a useful collaboration tool or vibrant online community Gives wiki users a toolbox of thriving wiki patterns, which enable newcomers to avoid making common mistakes or fumbling around for the solutions to the same problems as their predecessors Explains the major stages of wiki ...

Web 2.0

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 5:40:57 PST

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With case studies that demonstrate what Web 2.0 is and how it works in different business situations, this book illustrates how todays Web technologies and uses are changing the way companies communicate, interact, and make money.

Groundswell

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 6:19:58 PST

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Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff define 'the groundswell' as a social structure in which technology puts power into the hands of individuals and communities, not institutions. We see examples of this all around us: Second Life, You Tube, Twitter, etc. The technology that is enabling this has created a permanent, long lasting shift in the way the world works. This compelling and research-based book wi ...

Cultivating Communities of Practice

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 6:18:50 PST

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Today's marketplace is fueled by knowledge. Yet organizing systematically to leverage knowledge remains a challenge. Leading companies have discovered that technology is not enough, and that cultivating communities of practice is the keystone of an effective knowledge strategy. Communities of practice come together around common interests and expertise- whether they consist of first-line manager ...

Situated Learning

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 6:18:44 PST

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In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participati ...

Communities of Practice

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 6:18:42 PST

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Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profoun ...

Enterprise 2.0

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 6:14:41 PST

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Social software has taken the Internet by storm, fuelling huge growth in collaborative authoring platforms (such as blogs, wikis and podcasts) and massive expansion in social networking communities. These technologies have generated an unprecedented level of consumer participation and it is now time for businesses to embrace them as part of their own information and knowledge management strategie ...

The Starfish and the Spider

Sun, 4 May 2008 16:45:51 PST

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Understanding the amazing force that links some of today's most successful companies If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have ...

The Black Swan

Sun, 4 May 2008 0:58:10 PST

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WEB 2.0 Internet è cambiato. E voi?

Fri, 2 May 2008 1:42:19 PST

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Blog, YouTube, Wikipedia, MySpace Web 2.0... Cos'è il Web 2.0? Una tecnologia? Un modello di business? O piuttosto un insieme di nuovi strumenti per comunicare? Una sorta di contenitore di tutti questi strumenti nuovi, nuovissimi, sempre in evoluzione... e come funziona, quali logiche sottintende, quali opportunità abilita e quali no? Per rispondere a questi dubbi, ecco una guida che punto per pu ...

Here Comes Everybody

Fri, 2 May 2008 1:37:10 PST

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A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in deca ...

Così parlò Zarathustra

Fri, 2 May 2008 1:33:18 PST

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L’idea di Così parlò Zarathustra balenò a Nietzsche come una folgorazione nell’agosto del 1881, in Engadina, «6000 piedi al di là dell’uomo e del tempo». Essa coincise con il rivelarsi dell’«eterno ritorno», la misteriosa intuizione che segna il passaggio alla ultima fase del pensiero di Nietzsche e lo tramuta tutto dall’interno. Così anche lo Zarathustra rielabora e ripresenta tutto ciò che Niet ...

Don't make me think

Fri, 2 May 2008 1:33:03 PST

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Il testo spiega come l'usabilità, concetto molto raccomandato e pocopraticato, sia fondamentale per costruire dei siti web fruibili, facili dausare e coinvolgenti. La grafica interna del libro, accattivante, a colori,ricca di sezioni informative, approfondimenti e diagrammi, mantiene semprealta l'attenzione del lettore e trasmette facilmente gli elementifondamentali. In questa seconda ediz ...

Small Pieces Loosely Joined

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 0:12:38 PST

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The creation of the Web may well be the most important technological invention since Guttenberg's printing press. If that were all, it would be a very big deal indeed. However, as David Weinberger argues in this book, the Web is something even more than that. For everyone on the planet who has a computer, or access to a computer, the Web provides access to an extra, borderless public world create ...

Lettera sulla felicità

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 0:05:07 PST

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Ultima di tre lettere indirizzate a tre amici e opera tra le poche superstiti della vastissima produzione di Epicuro, quella sulla felicità contiene una sintesi chiara ed essenziale della dottrina etica del filosofo greco. Una dottrina volta alla ricerca del piacere come principio e fine della felicità; che insegna a non temere la divinità e la morte, che esorta a guardarsi dai piaceri che arreca ...

Information Architecture

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:51:40 PST

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All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago's tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days were visited by building inspector Jakob Neilsen, who told them their site should b ...

Community management

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:43:17 PST

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Le comunità di pratica stanno diventando anche in Italia una modalità di intervento diffusa in organizzazioni private e pubbliche. Reti di vendita, gruppi aziendali strategici, mestieri rilevanti rispetto alla missione organizzativa diventano oggetto di interventi che, oltre alle procedure, mettono in campo modalità nuove per collegare le persone, promuovere un'identità ...

Oltre Wikipedia

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:34:15 PST

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Il successo planetario di Wikipedia porta inevitabilmente a porsi laquestione: ma cosa sono i wiki? "Wiki" in lingua hawaiana significa "rapido",ma dal 1995 indica una nuova forma di sapere reso possibile dalla rete. I wikirappresentano la possibilità di costruire conoscenza attraverso il contributodi ogni persona collegata in rete, senza vincoli o censure preventive. I ...

Sources of Power

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:32:00 PST

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Anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilled. Gary Klein is one of the developers of the na ...

The Elements of User Experience

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:43:16 PST

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Smart organizations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it. But creating the user experience can s ...

Observing the User Experience

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 8:24:39 PST

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The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created. Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical inf ...

Web ReDesign

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:57:49 PST

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The book follows a road tested experiential methodology to expose the critical steps to planning, budgeting, organizing, and managing a web design or redesign project from conceptualization through launch. The authors use a sound pedagogical style that is appealing; easy to access; and full of forms, checklists, and worksheets to assist readers in working through their own projects. The page des ...

Web usability

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:42:11 PST

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In questo volume, l'autore mette a disposizione di tutti la ricchezza dellesue riflessioni e della sua esperienza. Dal progetto del contenuto e dellepagine alla progettazione per facilitare la navigazione, senza scordare gliutenti portatori di disabilità, Jacob Nielsen offre indicazioni precise sucome entrare sempre in contatto con tutti gli utenti del Web, in qualsiasisituazione.

Second Life

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:36:11 PST

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Second Life: The Official Guide is the perfect book for anyone interested in Linden Labs fascinating Second Life metaverse. This book explores in detail every aspect of Second Lifes rich and multilayered virtual world, explains how it works, and offers a wealth of information and practical advice for all Second Life residents. The first part of the book, “Getting a Second Life,” acquaints pote ...

Don't Make Me Think

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:22:32 PST

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Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice ...

WEB 2.0

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:22:08 PST

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Che cos'è il web 2.0? Termine che inizialmente definiva tutto ciò che è sopravvissuto alla bolla della new economy, è andato poi col tempo a indicare tutte le applicazioni di ultima generazione che hanno cambiato il modo di fruire la Rete. Gli utenti non si accontentano più di navigare su Internet ora che è possibile prendervi parte: il web 2.0 non offre dei pacchetti software ma dei servizi, che ...

La parte abitata della Rete

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:20:21 PST

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Ai margini dei grandi agglomerati commerciali di Internet sta emergendo unsistema di relazioni e di produzione di contenuti che ha nella partecipazionespontanea degli individui il suo motore. Un numero importante di persone stautilizzando blog, podcast, wiki e social network per esprimersi e percondividere competenze nell'interesse collettivo, dando vita a nuove forme diopinione pubblica e a sist ...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:15:06 PST

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Book Description The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites th ...

Ecologia dei siti Web

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:14:01 PST

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Il libro affronta dal lato pratico e teorico i problemi che nascono neltentativo di realizzare tecnicamente un sito usabile e accessibile, sfruttandole nuove possibilità offerte dai fogli di stile e da un web designstandard-compliant. Il testo si propone come una guida di riferimento per chii siti li fa, spiegando: cosa sia l'usabilità, e quali tecniche si hanno adisposizione (a sec ...

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:13:46 PST

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Questo libro illustra l'utilizzo dei fogli stile CSS per il visual designdelle pagine web. L'approccio è pratico: tutto l'essenziale che occorresapere per sviluppare pagine compatibili con i vari browser. I CSS consentonodi progettare e gestire il layout delle pagine in modo coerente, fedele aglistandard web originari e altamente ottimizzato. Il libro è rivolto asviluppatori di comp ...

La caffettiera del masochista

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:13:15 PST

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A chi non à mai capitato di spingere una porta invece di tirarla o di rinunciare a lavarsi le mani perché non riesce ad azionare il rubinetto? In questi casi la sensazione di incapacità personale è molto forte: eppure, sostiene Norman, la colpa non è dell'utente, bensì di chi ha progettato questi oggetti d'uso comune senza considerare le normali attività mentali la cui conoscenza è essenziale per ...

Ubiquità

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:12:01 PST

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Cos'hanno in comune i terremoti, la diffusione degli incendi, l'estinzionedelle specie, l'andamento della borsa, gli ingorghi del traffico, lo scoppiodelle guerre, le tendenze della moda o la formazione delle valanghe? Larisposta viene dagli sviluppi più recenti della fisica dei sistemi complessi edel non equilibrio: tutti questi sistemi, e molti altri, per quanto diversi,si organizzano sp ...

Don't make me think! Un approccio di buon senso all'usabilità web

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:11:12 PST

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"Don't make me think!" Non farmi pensare! E' questo il motto che ogniprogettista dovrebbe avere in testa al momento di sviluppare il suo prossimosito: l'utente non vuole pensare troppo a ciò che sta facendo e più cheleggere con attenzione le pagine, le scorre velocemente alla ricerca delleinformazioni che gli interessano. Il buon senso "avanzato" da Steve Krug tr ...

Six Degrees

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:10:21 PST

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In this Rremarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempted to explain their ...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:08:38 PST

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Today's web sites have moved far beyond "brochureware." They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look like ...

Emergence

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:05:47 PST

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...a penetrating exploration of emergence, the way in which an interconnected system of relatively simple elements organize themselves to form more intelligent, more adaptive and higher-level behavior

Sync

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:05:24 PST

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The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far reaching drives in all of nature, extending from people to plants, from animals to atoms. "Sync" is the story of this dazzling kind of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync, written by the mathematician who created the science. [예스24 제공]

The Wisdom of Crowds

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:04:42 PST

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Smart people often believe that the opinion of the crowd is always inferior to the opinion of the individual specialist. Philosophical giants such as Nietzsche thought that "Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups". Henry David Thoreau lamented: "The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest member. ...

The Paradox of Choice

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:04:13 PST

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The author of The Battle for Human Nature explains why too much choice has led to the ever increasing complexity of everyday decisions, why too much of a good thing has become detrimental to human psychological and emotional well-being, and how to focus our lives on making the right choices. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

The Tipping Point

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:03:52 PST

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An introduction to the Tipping Point theory explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in an individual's immediate environment can alter group behavior.

Blink

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:03:16 PST

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In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision maker ...

Ambient Findability

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:02:42 PST

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How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connec ...

Everything Is Miscellaneous

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:01:34 PST

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From Publishers Weekly In a high-minded twist on the Internet-has-changed-everything book, Weinberger (Small Pieces Loosely Joined) joins the ranks of social thinkers striving to construct new theories around the success of Google and Wikipedia. Organization or, rather, lack of it, is the key: the author insists that "we have to get rid of the idea that there's a best way of organizing the world ...

Wikinomics

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:58:03 PST

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In just the last few years, traditional collaborationin a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention centerhas been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale. Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these mas ...

Freakonomics

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:56:58 PST

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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar ...

The Long Tail

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:53:07 PST

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What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From ...

Nexus

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:49:51 PST

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Può la geometria salvare l'enigma del comportamento umano? È possibile che unmodello matematico arrivi a spiegare il funzionamento della nostra società?Mark Buchanan illustra i principi fondamentali di un nuovo campo di studi: lateoria delle reti, la cui tesi fondamentale è che una stessa strutturanascosta è condivisa da tutti i network, e ne regola il comportamento e ...

Emergence

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:49:08 PST

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Steven Johnson's "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software" is a fascinating look at how self-organising systems are changing the world. Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain conscious even though no single neuron is? What causes a media frenzy? The answer, as Steven Johnson's groundbreaking b ...

Linked

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:46:04 PST

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A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. Graspi ...

Designing Interfaces

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:43:18 PST

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Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- Web applications, desktop software, even mobile devices - may give you the tools you need, but little guidance on how to use them well. UI designers over the years have refined the art of int ...

Small Pieces Loosely Joined

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:40:38 PST

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In this insightful social commentary, Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hypeto reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. [예스24 제공]