People are the next technology
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People are the next technology

About the Book

About the Author

Gordon Montgomery
Gordon Montgomery
Help others. Be brilliant.

Research. Innovation. Transformation. Education.

My mission is to transform individuals and teams within organizations, universities and schools such that, through conversation and direct action, we all work together to put the past behind us, begin to learn and create more engaging, productive and dignified ways of earning a living. We create future workforce possibilities for our next generation through the rapid and judicious application of business process engineering, right-technology-right-time delivery and leadership empowerment that grow the culture, community and world-at-large in unprecedented, extraordinary and high-performing ways.

Hire me to (a) speak passionately about 21st century, educational and business transformation, (b) run Professional Development Workshops or (c) just help smaller groups fullfil on the vision for their immediate goals.

Reach me via gordon@xovation.net or (512) 299 3637

Table of Contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Markdown
    1. Why Should You Care?
    2. How Markdown is Used in Leanpub
    3. Markdown Extensions in Leanpub
  5. Sample Books
    1. Why Sample Books?
    2. Consequences for Manuscripts
  6. Images and Cover Pages
    1. Watch Your File Sizes!
    2. Technical Books
    3. Business Books
    4. Fiction Books
  7. June 2011
    1. The Association of Educational Publishers Honors Edmodo with Distinguished Achievement Award for K-12 Social Media
    2. The Power of the Post-Recession Consumer
    3. ISTE \textbar {
    4. Has the tech industry forgotten users? We are in an insider bubble --- Scobleizer
  8. July 2011
    1. Houghton Mifflin -- Learning Village
    2. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD)
    3. Social Enterprise at HBS
    4. What is social enterprise?
    5. Free webinars in edutech innovation
    6. Transforming education
  9. January 2012
    1. Chief Culture Officer -- what IS that?
  10. February 2012
    1. Leadership: Inventing the future

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