Interview by Net Geners in Germany

I was interviewed by 2 Net Geners for Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, one of Germany’s largest circulation dailies. I enjoyed the interview and below is a pretty good translation. The original can be found: http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/488882 “For...

Get Lit 2009 in Toronto

Mark your calendars! This year’s Get Lit event in Toronto will be held on Thursday, October 22nd at the Gladstone Hotel. Get Lit is foremost a reading series, featuring a diverse cast of Canadian celebrities who share a piece of writing with the audience – an excerpt...

What should the new book's title be?

I have a group project. Anthony D. Williams, my co-author of Wikinomics, and I are writing a new book about rebuilding the world for an age of networked intelligence.  We need to redesign all of our institutions for the global, knowledge economy. The global economic...

Online learning boosts student performance

The U.S. Department of Education has released a report comparing traditional face-to-face classroom instruction to learning supplemented or completely replaced by online learning.  The conclusion:  “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better,...

Obama encourages students to persevere

President Barack Obama stuck to the script almost word-for-word in his address to schoolchildren across the nation earlier this month. Critics of the speech complained that Obama would try to indoctrinate schoolchildren with his “socialist ideology.”  Some said they...

TakingITGlobal co-founder shares Net Gen insights

My good friend and mentee Michael Furdyk has just posted an excellent brief video on the Globe and Mail website discussing how companies can reach out to the Net Generation. I’ve worked with Michael for more than a dozen years. Our first project was the design and...
Don Tapscott