Nerd Stalker

Raising good humans We're beyond excited to release Me - our newest app, the fifth in the series - next week and not a moment too soon. Like other Digital Toys apps, Me encourages creative thinking. But it's also our first app specifically designed to support kids' socio-emotional development.

When analyzing and understanding the systems we work with we have many possible tools to help us find what is affecting the system and therefore the team. Adolfo lists 3 tools he uses and how he uses them to find out what are the system conditions in play.

It happens. Some of our best people are also quite strong minded and want to do things their way, because hey, it worked in the past! This is a problem for the team to develop in a cohesive and collaborative mode of work. However this does not be an impossible problems for us Scrum Masters. Adolfo walks us through how he solved such a situation. In this episode we refer to the book Crucial Conversations by Patterson et al., a guide to handling difficult, but necessary conversations in our teams.

Vine Star Jason Nash Releases 'FML' - a Parody About Social Media Sam and Henry (Photo courtesy of Digital Riot Media and FML) Over the weekend, 60 Minutes ran a story on Social Media Influencers . These people who are changing the landscape of advertising are offering product endorsements to their followers via their "schtick" not some ad agency planned marketing campaign. They are as big on social media as some sports stars but they are just normal like you and I. Over the weekend, we were grateful to have screened the the movie " FML-The Movie " (Thank you Shark Party Media and Digital Riot Media ) which is a comedy which parodies the whole social influencer world. Jason Nash, a vine star himself,  producing and directing his second cross-over feature, has released the  first-ever Vine star feature film (written, directed and starring Vine stars) on October 11th.  FML   stars  Jason Nash  and  Brandon Calvillo , two of Vine’s most followed...

It was my tremendous honor to be invited on the fantastic Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast with host Vasco Duarte. It is tempting, and sometimes even possible to change many things starting from a small group. But if you are working in a large multi-national organization don’t forget the old adage: “the tail can’t wag the dog”. Small wins are necessary, but not sufficient to help change take hold in larger organization.

Be Somebody New: LinkedIn Learning Opens Up their Courses for 1 week Photo courtesy of LinkedIn Learning On LinkedIn's blog there is a quote " Learning means growing." Here's your chance to grow. LinkedIn announced last Friday that they are opening their coffers for one week to show you the breadth of LinkedIn Learning. On September 22,  LinkedIn announced they finally pulled the Lynda.com library of online training courses into its main service. Lynda.com, now LinkedIn Studios, is still based in Carpenteria and still going strong. 

IMD Professor Stefan Michel on LinkedIn and the Future of Learning in the Workplace New Age of Education Delivery (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) LinkedIn recently announced that it was entering the professional development market. Surprisingly, this news barely caused a ripple. Will 22 September 2016 go down in history as a key milestone in the digital transformation of the professional development market? Only the future will tell.