Discovery Fuel

University of Minnesota

Sustainable Innovation

Sustainable Innovation

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCY-NEED OF THE HOUR

DR.R.SRINIVASAN asked: INTRODUCTION:Everybody and everything around us keep on conveying something. This transmission by X can become a communication only when Y responds to it. This is parallel to the Radio and T.V. Stations joyful programmes and our reception of them only after switching on the Radio or Television in our homes. The sheer functioning-condition [...]

5 “E”s Necessary for E-Learning PowerPoint Presentation

pptarticle asked: Affordable and accessible, e-Learning is seizing a large portion of learning activities both in schools and in corporations. And the rapid growth of Internet and multimedia technologies including PowerPoint, flash, video and DVD, contributes a great to e-Learning in making it available to a multitude of learners with ease and flexibility. Among the [...]

Virtual learning in K-12 Education

Tutoring Services asked: According to the Sloan Consortium, which monitors online education in K-12 schools in the United States, online learning is on the rise. According to their report, “the overall number of K-12 students engaged in online courses in 2007-2008, is estimated at 1,030,000. This represents a 47% increase since 2005-2006”.That’s a big jump, [...]

Building an Interactive Community

Content can attract shoppers to your site. But to generate a continuous flow of repeat visitors, you need to provide access to an interactive community.Community is just as important as content when planning an eCommerce site. If done right, community features on your site will increase the number of page-views per visit, giving you opportunities [...]

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

STOP !!! ... WRONG THING TO DO! Ethics? Values? Who cares!? “YOU” better care. Did you know that each person’s underlying values and beliefs systems are what drives their actions? Those actions are how things get done by your team members. By linking individual values with your company’s principles, practices, and policies, your world becomes a [...]

Who Says It Ain’t Easy Being Green ?! (Sustainable Business Planning Workshop)

How to Create a ‘Sustainable’ Business Plan AN ONLINE WORKSHOP .Join Vic Desotelle from DiscoveryFuel.com for an ONLINE collaborative sustainable business planning workshop series. This session will allow you to preview and inquire about the series, which is for small business social entrepreneurs who have dreamed of owning a sustainable business. Learn how to make a viable business [...]

Our Future and the Mistake We Continue to Make

Our future and the mistake we continue to make You may be surprised to hear this: Taking action on our future is way less about ‘what‘ content and ‘who‘ is in the room, than it is about ‘how‘ we come together to learn. Geez, we’ve had that all wrong for a long long time. Look below [...]

The Ecology of Leadership: A Twist on the Idea of Professionalism

In our attempt to be ‘professional’, it seems that our society has become afraid of our own human-ness. Have we lost our sense of how to be with each other in the messiness of our humanity? I was reading my LinkedIn Groups this morning and came across Mike Smith’s ‘Life Back West’ thoughts on people, teams, [...]

Communication: Differentiating Debate, Discussion, & Dialogue

I have been asked to clarify the difference between ‘debates‘, ‘discussions‘, and ‘dialogues‘ (note wikipedia incorrectly clumps discussion into the same definition as ‘debate’). Below is a first attempt at trying to evolve our understanding of these three primary communication processes. I ask for your feedback, and also for your own insights on this matter. The [...]

Creating a Learning Exchange Marketplace

Learning Exchange Markets uncover hidden innovation which is often at the fringes of an organization. Within a Learning Exchange Market, a shift of emphasis occurs between the participants from debates and discussions to generative dialogue, which must be in place for true forms of sustainable innovation to emerge. During the learning exchange process, multiple conversations [...]