This morning New Horizons flew by Pluto, and everyone celebrated something that nobody witnessed. The post The Anxiety and Revelry of Flying Past Pluto in the Dark appeared first on WIRED.

Startups like Max Levchin's Affirm are using tech to offer student loans for learn-to-code bootcamps. But some are questioning whether it's just another way to perpetuate the cycle of student loan debt. The post Now You Can Pay for Code Boot Camp With Student Loans appeared first on WIRED.

Some of you know I actually have a ‘real job’ where each and every day I get to work with great people and turn ideas into action. That role sees me employed by TELUS; an organization that was recently inducted into Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures Hall of Fame. Yes, I’m a lucky lad. My buddy Sameer Patel called me a ‘practicing futurist‘ over lunch a few weeks ago in Palo Alto. At first I laughed, but since then the term has been rattling around in my brain somewhat incessantly. I suppose it’s true. By way of example, at TELUS, we put together an infographic showcasing four years of change as it relates to our learning and collaboration strategy. We’ve released the infographic on our newly minted corporate blog and it’s pasted below for you to view as well. (that’s right, we have an external blog where we write about things like culture, our community efforts, etc.) What does all of this mean? If you and your team are empowered to innovate, to boldly create what others may not, to inspire and to dream … all the while aligning to the corporate goals and objectives, you too may be able to become a ‘practicing futurist’. I know that I’m engaged and it’s because we’ve been able to accomplish the goals you see on the infographic below. Click on the graphic to see it in full-screen. Related Posts:Flexible Working Worksflat army bookWordle Graphic of Flat ArmyI Don’t Do GolfI’m Not Scared of Email; I Developed a System called…

"For far too long these challenges have been dismissed by some as women’s issues," Clinton said. "Well, those days are over." The post Clinton: Women in the Workforce Isn’t a Women’s Issue appeared first on WIRED.

Today Adobe introduced the new Adobe Presenter 9, a fantastic tool for anyone to create interactive content and videos. Presenter has a long tradition of innovation. If you are in business, education or training, the new Presenter has a LOT to offer you. What does it do? At it’s core, Adobe Presenter allows anyone to […]

If you’ve updated your iPhone recently, you may have noticed the iTunes logo was replaced by the brand spanking new Apple Music icon. It’s not just an aesthetic difference, of course, but what’s inside. And what’s inside is not necessarily all that easy to navigate, especially when it comes to accessing your own library of […] The post How to Shuffle All Your Songs in Apple Music appeared first on WIRED.

Here’s the list of eSeminars we’ve planned for the month of August. Feel free to register for the eSeminars you wish to attend. Topic: What’s New in Adobe Presenter 9 Date and time: Thursday, 1st August, 2013 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, as she demonstrates some […]

Hillary Clinton says that as president, she would try to rid Wall Street of its tendency to fixate on short-term goals like earnings reports. "Too many pressures in our economy push us toward short termism," she said, in a speech at New York’s New School today. "Everything’s focused on the next earnings report or the […] The post Wall Street’s Focus is Too Short-Term, Says Clinton appeared first on WIRED.

In case you missed the news last week, Adobe has just released another in a long series of serious innovations in eLearning. Adobe publishes two of the most significant applications in the eLearning authoring space, Adobe Captivate - the long time leader in eLearning authoring, and Adobe Presenter 9, a simple to use PowerPoint plugin […]

My jaw dropped when I read it. Thanks to an internal memo leaked to Kara Swisher by a Yahoo employee, we have insight into a recent decision by their C-Suite. Taking a page from "we liked it better when we physically saw you hammering keystrokes on your laptop" the struggling company (bada Bing?) has mandated any Yahoo employee currently working from home (full-time or on occasion) must relocate their fingers and keystrokes back to the office by June. That’s right … if a Yahoo employee was able to work from home, it’s no longer in the employee contract. I call it ‘management yahooliganism‘. The memo itself was penned by Jackie Reses, Yahoo’s Head of Human Resources. I’ve no idea whether Jackie (and CEO Marissa Mayer) have a hate on for life-work balance or whether they  have been watching reruns of TV dramas from the 1970′s, but it screams naïvety and a definitive lack of trust with their employees. It’s management yahooliganism. Three lines irked me greatly in this memo missive: "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home." Perhaps Jackie doesn’t believe in research but if she walked down the street to Stanford University, she could have chatted with Nicholas Bloom et al who actually proved this statement wrong in their paper "Does Working From Home Work?" "Home working led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 9% was from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick-days) and 4% from more calls per minute (attributed to a quieter working environment). Home workers also reported improved work satisfaction and experienced less turnover." The C-Suite might want to read a recent post of mine as well, "I Am A Corporate Floater" "If this impacts you, your management has already been in touch with next steps." This says a lot to me about the culture that is being (re)created at Yahoo. Instead of connecting and considering options directly with employees, this unilateral decision has been made, seemingly left to management to inform (and fire?) employees who don’t comply. Talk about a culture killer … although it does map back nicely to ‘command and control’ doesn’t it? The C-Suite would be wise to read Chapter 8 of Flat Army - the Collaborative Leader Action Model "for the rest of us who occasionally have to stay home for the cable guy, please use your best judgment in the spirit of collaboration." In an official memo such as this, why are we resorting to stereotypes like ‘the cable guy‘? Shame on Yahoo (and HR in particular) for stooping to such lows; an obvious bad attempt at official communication humour that does nothing to help build culture It’s management yahooliganism. It’s one organization I’ll never work for … and after writing this, it’s perhaps one I’ll never be able to speak at either. Related Posts:Flexible Working WorksI Am A Corporate FloaterThe 10 Winners of Flat Army Copies Are …Do We Need Textpectations?Bill Sullivan, CEO of Agilent Technologies is a Chief…