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Posted by m beduya on April 18, 2011 · 1 Comment
Mozilla Firefox launched its latest Version 4 together with the introduction of a mascot for the Philippines, Alab for Filipino flare, attired as a revolutionary Katipunero. The image above shows community leader, Regnard Raquedan, introducing Alab, as the Mozilla Firefox mascot for the Philippines that was created by Martin Jimenez. I am happy to be [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Fast changes in Google search and Facebook social graph technologies dictate continuous learning of new skills and techniques for SYNTHESiST. On top of these internal changes, I have put in place changes to refine its focus, content, experience and reach to better serve her community – a relentless challenge indeed. I am sharing on a [...]
Filed under Information and Communication, News and Stories · Tagged with appreciative theory, brand development, DUI-Learning, Facebook, Google, Google Search, learning-by-doing, product innovation, scan-adapt-diffuse, Snap-shots, Social Graph, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
There may be a way to take off from Ben Bernanke and get a better price for imported rice this year in the Philippines if we go proactive. Ben Bernanke at the National Press Club. Speaking more about fiscal policy and deficit, Chairman Ben Bernanke absolves the Federal Reserve from the emerging commodity price bubble [...]
Posted by m beduya on January 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The second year anniversary for SYNTHESiST is coming up on February 25, 2011. The need to improve content and advances in technology are driving me to innovate. SYNTHESiST has progressed some ways. Still, a lot more work needs to be done in the coming twelve months to improve itself in content and technology to improve [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication · Tagged with Android, emerging markets, Facebook, Google, innovation systems, Search, search engine optimization, SEO, smart phone, Social Graph, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on November 29, 2010 · 1 Comment
I was pleasantly surprised to see my good facebook friends, Atty. Luie Guia and Denis Du, on the front page, onscreen of my online New York Times in the box, Latest in My Network. It turns out that they have used the links button on New York Times online to recommend articles on Facebook. As [...]
Posted by m beduya on November 21, 2010 · 2 Comments
In December 1986, the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) Inc. was organized as a social development foundation to address the growing poverty incidence in depressed communities in Regions IV and V. From the beginning, CARD sought to achieve this goal by turning poor, landless, rural women into an army of entrepreneurs by granting [...]
Filed under Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation · Tagged with CARD MRI, co-evolution, GLOBELICS, Grameen, inclusive development, India, innovation for the poor, microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Philippines, Sectoral innovation systems
Posted by m beduya on October 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
I hope the microblog post 15 Books on Facebook Notes becomes viral. My gifted friend, James Matthew Miraflor, who I hailed in my February 25 (SYNTHESiST anniversary and People Power) post, started the microblog. And I linked with my own favorite 15 Books and tagged fifteen friends with it. James has his heart in the [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Learning and Teaching · Tagged with Alfred Sloan, Amartya Sen, Frank Herbert, George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, james Miraflor, Joseph Schumpeter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Max Weber, Musashi, Peter Senge, Thomas Kuhn, Wang Yang Ming, Yoshida Shoin
Posted by m beduya on October 18, 2010 · 6 Comments
Through SYNTHESiST, my work to enrich the conversation on innovation systems and change management in emerging markets like the Philippines gets me to meet interesting people – scholars who move their worlds with knowledge work. In two weeks, I will attend my first GLOBELICS, the 8th Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence [...]
Filed under Learning and Teaching, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with ASIALICS, change management, Christopher Freeman, co-evolution, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, evolutionary economics, GLOBELICS, innovation, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Nathan Rosenberg, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Richard Nelson, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on October 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The second offering for 2010 Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) at the Asian Institute of Management will commence tomorrow, October 4, through October 15. I will be teaching many of the modules in the next two weeks in addition to two modules for a growth strategy short course at the Executive Education and Life Long Learning [...]
Posted by m beduya on September 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For what it’s worth, SYNTHESiST has generated its first real advertising interest from the Web. SYNTHESiST already accommodates AdSense; Google’s program to install context-related ads on spaces allocated to them by blog publishers. These first expressions of interests validates two hypotheses: Firstly, SYNTHESiST already has some traffic to justify the interest; and, Secondly, the traffic [...]
Posted by m beduya on September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Th 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was updated on October 11, 2010: Peter Diamond (MIT), Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), Christopher Pissarides (LSE) shared the prize for research that improved the understanding of search frictions in markets. Their work allowed a more realistic case than classic perfect competition in [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with Akira Suzuki, Amartya Sen, Christopher Pissarides, competitiveness, Dale Mortensen, Ei-ichi Negishi, Elinor Ostrom, Kenneth Arrow, Konstantin Novoselov, Liu Xiaobo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Peter Diamond, Richard Heck, Robert Solow
Posted by m beduya on August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For the first time ever, I am teacher and Program Director for an executive training course – a five-day customized management development program for dealer-entrepreneurs – at the Asian Institute of Management. As Program Director, I designed the course and selected the teaching staff. I am also the production manager and thus far this week [...]
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