Development by Davis: “Culture eats strategy” plus 4 more

Culture eats strategy
Open Source Plug-in Integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle
Open Source Plug-in Integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle
Open Source Plug-in Integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle
I miss E-mail

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST

Understanding a company's culture is a key component that leaders may ignore. When I took on a new role, an updated strategy was cited as top priority. What the team needed was a culture boost. I focused on culture management to change the "delegate up" practices and effectively implement strategy. It's an ongoing process of encouraging people to take the risks associated with making their own decisions, but it's paying off with faster decision-making, improved performance, and higher morale.

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Open Source Plug-in Integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST

As you know, educational institutions across the globe face the challenge of trying to meet accelerating technology demands with limited budgets. That is why I am really pleased to report that, today, Moodlerooms has released an open source plug-in that integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle, the world's leading open source Learning Management System with 55 million users.

With this integration, Moodlerooms will make the rich functionality of Live@edu directly accessible within the Moodle 2.0 and 1.9 environments via single sign-on, further enabling teachers and students to access the quality, enterprise-level tools they need to effectively teach and learn online.

Microsoft Live@edu makes hosted email, communications and collaboration services freely available to educational institutions and currently benefits more than 22 million people worldwide.

Moodlerooms' Microsoft Live@edu services plug-in for Moodle will bring Microsoft's Live@edu email, calendar, instant messaging and Bing services right into the Moodle classroom environment.

The plug-in is freely available to download from the moodle.org plug-in directory here.

You can read more about this on the Moodlerooms release here, as well as on the Microsoft in Education blog and the Microsoft Openness blog.

Open Source Plug-in Integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST

Microsoft Live@edu makes hosted email, communications and collaboration services freely available to educational institutions and currently benefits more than 22 million people worldwide.

Moodlerooms' Microsoft Live@edu services plug-in for Moodle will bring Microsoft's Live@edu email, calendar, instant messaging and Bing services right into the Moodle classroom environment.

The plug-in is freely available to download from the moodle.org plug-in directory here.

You can read more about this on the Moodlerooms release here, as well as on the Microsoft in Education blog and the Microsoft Openness blog.

Open Source Plug-in Integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST

Microsoft Live@edu makes hosted email, communications and collaboration services freely available to educational institutions and currently benefits more than 22 million people worldwide.

Moodlerooms' Microsoft Live@edu services plug-in for Moodle will bring Microsoft's Live@edu email, calendar, instant messaging and Bing services right into the Moodle classroom environment.

The plug-in is freely available to download from the moodle.org plug-in directory here.

You can read more about this on the Moodlerooms release here, as well as on the Microsoft in Education blog and the Microsoft Openness blog.

I miss E-mail

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 06:00 AM PST

I miss asynchronous conversation.

I miss the ability to have an actual thread of thought preserved in something less ephemeral than memory, or in some chat log somewhere on one of my systems' hard drives.

I miss the ability to not be there if someone has an observation I'm interested in. I don't want to have to observe in real time.