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  John Seely Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Harpers Ferry NHP: John Brown's Fort Photos and information on the structure in the national park in which John Brown and several of his followers barricaded themselves during the final hours of their ill-fated raid.
John Brown (1800-1859) Information on the life of the abolitionist and reproduction of his speech before the court when on trial for treason.
Seely, Lisa Posters Brown, John Appleton Posters Brown, John George Posters Brown, W.H. Posters Brown, Tim Posters Brown, L. Posters Brown, G.M. Posters Brown, F. Posters Brown Posters Brown, L. Posters Ian Brown Posters Brown, K. Posters Mrs.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-John_Seely_Brown.html   (356 words)

  
 The role of storytelling in knowledge management and for science and technology
John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox and Chief Innovation Officer of 12 Entrepreneuring--a new entrepreneurial operating company in San Francisco, and co-author of The Social Life of Information.
John Seely Brown divides his time between being the Chief Innovation Officer of 12 Entrepreneuring, an entrepreneurial operating company in San Francisco and the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation.
John, or as he is often called—JSB—sits on numerous boards of directors and advisory boards, is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.
www.creatingthe21stcentury.org /JSB.html   (365 words)

  
 Query List
John Seely, SGS Database Coordinator, reports that he has some data on Lorraine Edna (Seeley) Buell and her husband, Kenneth that was received from her father in 1989.
John Seely, SGS Database Coordinator, responded that he believes John Baker Seely was the son of William Seely (SGS # 3606) and Marilla Stufflebeam.
John Seely responded that he had data on most of the people Paul was asking about.
www.seeley-society.net /qlist2k1.html   (7568 words)

  
 About SI: John Seely Brown Symposium 2000
The first John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society was held at the University of Michigan on September 8 and 9, 2000, sponsored by the School of Information and the U-M President's Information Revolution Commission.
A U-M alumnus for whom the Symposium is named, John Seely Brown was until recently vice president and chief scientist of Xerox and director of the Xerox Palo Atlo Research Center (PARC).
The centerpiece of the inaugural John Seely Brown Symposium at SI was Lessig's talk "Architecting Innovation." He writes of it, "We have experienced the most extraordinary flourishing of innovation and creativity that we have known.
www.si.umich.edu /jsb/2000.htm   (768 words)

  
 John Seely, R.I.P.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Seely is survived by daughters = Pati-Ann Misskelley of Michigan and Kathleen Beeler of Reno, = Nev.; and eight grandchildren.
Seely was born Aug. 23, 1923, as Seely John Gilfilen, family members said.
Seely is survived by daughters Pati-Ann Misskelley of Michigan and Kathleen Beeler of Reno, Nev.; and eight grandchildren.
www.seriousstyle.org /new-970398-58.html   (1012 words)

  
 Special Keynote: The 20-Year View   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
JOHN GAGE: We're seeing this at the moment with the __ we are.
JOHN SEELY BROWN: I think that the __ it's also important to recognize that in a creative destruction moment, there is tremendous turbulence.
JOHN GAGE: The big challenge from overall architecture of all of this is today you have instances of moving content from location to location to be ever_closer to those who use it at the end.
seminars.seyboldreports.com /2000_san_francisco/files/24/24_transcript.html   (11578 words)

  
 Books by John Seely Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid help us to see through frenzied visions of the future to the real forces for change in society.
This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school.
But in their own words, John Seely Brown, Steve Denning, Katalina Groh, and Larry Prusak describe how they came to see the power of narrative and storytelling in their own experience working on knowledge management, change management, and innovation strategies in organizations such as Xerox, the World Bank, and IBM.
books.bankhacker.com /John+Seely+Brown   (1303 words)

  
 sociable media // articles by Cliff Atkinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, and director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for 12 years, John Seely Brown, Ph.D., is one of the world's most innovative thinkers at the interesting intersection where technology and people meet.
John Seely Brown: One way to look at the standard genre of today’s PowerPoint slides is as a sequence of sound bites.
Very seldom do you see the logic of the argument, which is often in the glue between the slides.
www.sociablemedia.com /articles_seely_brown.htm   (1441 words)

  
 'Screen Language': The New Currency for Learning : Knowledge & the Information Economy : HBS Working Knowledge
Seely Brown, who gave the kick-off speech, is also the director of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and the author (with Paul Duguid) of The Social Life of Information (HBSP, 2000).
According to Seely Brown, there is a new kind of digital divide now and it is the divide between faculty and students.
Several methods Seely Brown has witnessed in the past year have greatly impressed him, although he admitted it was a hard sell for a long time.
hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu /pubitem.jhtml?id=2930&sid=0&pid=0&t=knowledge   (1279 words)

  
 About SI: John Seely Brown Symposium
The John Seely Brown Symposium is an occassional event sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information.
The centerpiece of the Symposium is the John Seely Brown Lecture, which is supported by a five-year gift from John Seely Brown.
The first John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society was held at the University of Michigan on September 8 and 9, 2000.
www.si.umich.edu /jsb   (312 words)

  
 McGee's Musings
This is the magic of vibrant weblog communities that excites those of it who see their promise as a knowledge sharing tool.
Much of Seely Brown's work focuses on the processes and dynamics by which knowledge is created and shared.
Jay Cross points to a terrific Seth Kahan interview with John Seely Brown, touching on storytelling, innovation, creative abrasion, and the dissemination of ideas.
www.mcgeesmusings.net /2004/04/23.html   (1542 words)

  
 Tech Tidbit -- September 9, 2002
John Seely Brown, "Learning, Working and Playing in the Digital Age: Creating Learning Ecologies." Transcription of a talk by Brown at the 1999 Conference on Higher Education of the American Association for Higher Education.
John Seely Brown and Estee Solomon Gray, "The People Are the Company: How to build your company around your people," Fast Company (November 1995).
John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society, University of Michigan School of Information.
www.alteich.com /tidbits/t090902.htm   (569 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottistone (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottistone, British And Irish History, Biographies
Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottistone 1868–1947, British politician.
In 1914, when officers stationed at the Curragh military camp in Ireland asserted that they would not serve against the Ulster Unionists in the Home Rule crisis, Seely assured them that they would not be required to do so.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Seely-Jo.html   (262 words)

  
 Featured Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments.
We've yet to see the full motion video and audio possibilities that await the bandwidth we'll soon have through cable modems and DSL; also to come are the new Web appliances, such as the portable Web in a phone, and a host of wireless technologies.
John Seely Brown is the chief scientist of Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center.
www.usdla.org /html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article01.html   (5719 words)

  
 John Seely Brown: In Context - Special Libraries Association
JOHN SEELY BROWN: We both live in the midst of what I'm going to call "broken promises" in the center of Silicon Valley.
Is a newspaper that has been tailored to the individual any longer "a newspaper?" After all, newspapers create or make news; everybody in the community sees the same headlines, so it creates a common experience that fosters and focuses conversations everywhere you go in the community or the organization.
I think that we are seeing reintermediation happening in terms of the concepts of editing, selection and navigation.
www.sla.org /content/Shop/Information/infoonline/2000/Jun00/seely.cfm?style=text&pwreminder=yes   (3711 words)

  
 John Seely Brown storytelling narrative social network complexity knowledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Each of them sees it differently yet there is enough shared understanding that the difference of their perspectives can come into focus around it.
For example, maybe the architect goes out to the construction site and tries to see the problem from the engineer's point of view, and figure out what he was really attempting to accomplish by designing the wall that way.
What we see in an innovative community is a lot of abrasion and tough clashes among crafts and practices.
www.sethkahan.com /Resources_0JohnSeelyBrown.html   (5317 words)

  
 Can Your Firm Develop a Sustainable Edge? Ask John Hagel and John Seely Brown - Knowledge@Wharton
John Hagel III, a former McKinsey consultant, and John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox, are focusing these days on a question that CEOs often ask themselves: How can their companies develop a sustainable competitive edge that can keep them ahead of the competition?
The net result is, if you look at where the headcount of the enterprise is focused, it is on handling exceptions that get thrown out by the automated processes, and that can't be handled by the rules or procedures that have been specified.
Hagel: One of the big issues we see is that to date most of the social software tools we are talking about have tended to be one-off kinds of tools.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu /index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=1220   (2319 words)

  
 John Seely Brown: Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The following is based on a tape transcription of a talk by John Seely Brown at the 1999 Conference on Higher Education of the American Association for Higher Education A pdf file of the tape transcription is available from the The National Teaching and Learning Forum.
But to see this I think it is crucial not to think of the Web and the internet as just a network of computers but rather as the beginning of a fundamentally new medium, a medium as in TV, radio, theater and books.
Their power lies in their willingness to see differently, unearth and challenge background assumptions and then act on their beliefs, often overturning an assumption that others felt were unassailable.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /sci_edu/seelybrown/seelybrown4.html   (8371 words)

  
 Leigh Bureau - W. Colston Leigh, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hagel and Seely Brown discuss the strategic levers that will accelerate this migration, and they outline a new approach to strategy development that will help companies capture this shifting source of strategic advantage.
Interviews with all the authors done in 2004 add a new dimension to the material, allowing the authors to reflect on their ideas and clarify points or highlight ideas that may have changed or deepened over time.
Seeing Differently is the author's personal guide to ideas that will shape the way we innovate into the twenty-first century.
www.leighbureau.com /speaker_documents.asp?view=book&id=10   (642 words)

  
 johnhagel.com: Where Business meets IT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In fact, we believe we are on the cusp of another major shift toward a true distributed service architecture that will represent a qualitative breakthrough in terms of delivering more flexibility and fluidity to businesses.
In other contexts, John Seely Brown has championed a perspective he describes as radical incrementalism.
John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Scott Durchslag
www.johnhagel.com /blog20030515.html   (1048 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottis... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottis...
Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottistone
SEELY, JOHN EDWARD BERNARD, 1ST BARON OF MOTTISTONE [Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottistone] 1868-1947, British politician.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Seely-Jo&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (213 words)

  
 The People Are the Company
But this much we know: success in the Knowledge Era is as much about the spirit of the enterprise as the economics of the business; as much about the positive energy it unleashes as the positive cash flow it creates.
We also know that the most valuable knowledge often resides where we are least able to see or control it: on the front lines, at the periphery, with the renegades.
John Seely Brown (jsb.parc@xerox.com) is vice president and chief scientist of Xerox Corporation.
www.fastcompany.com /online/01/people.html   (2855 words)

  
 Learning, Working, and Playing in the Digital Age - John Seely Brown introduction
But all that is said about John's scholarly career was that he was interested in things like digital culture, ubiquitous computing, user centering design and organizational and individual learning.
But then I realized that John's 95 scientific publications were arranged chronologically, and if I took them in order they seemed to reveal a research career of amazing range in which one investigative path seemed to lead to another.
In 1986 John played a major role in founding the non-profit institute called the Institute for Research on Learning, which is directed by Peter Henschel, whom you heard from at this conference last year.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /sci_edu/seelybrown/seelybrownintro.html   (836 words)

  
 Sustaining the Ecology of Knowledge -- John Seely Brown full-text article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Such changes are evident in every industry, creating a new imperative for organizations to see more clearly, make sense faster, and learn faster than their competitors.
We thought the barriers were between the soft disciplines of art and design on one hand, and, on the other, the hard disciplines of science and engineering (see figure).
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www.drucker.org /leaderbooks/l2l/spring99/brown.html   (2927 words)

  
 IT Conversations: John Seely Brown - Supernova 2005
John Seely Brown (or JSB as he is often called) is known for his work on business ecosystems.
In this relatively short but focused talk from Supernova 2005 he covers the emotive topic of off-shoring and highlights the advantages that can be gained from understanding that it is never only a simple question of wage arbitration.
John Seely Brown (JSB) is currently a visiting scholar at USC.
www.itconversations.com /shows/detail610.html   (767 words)

  
 Software Dioxide: John Seely Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Seely Brown is the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
He is the co-founder of the Institute for Research on Learning, a non-profit institute for addressing the problems of lifelong-learning.
Brown is an MS in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.
www.softwaredioxide.com /Channels/ConView.asp?id=6956   (186 words)

  
 John Seely Brown Joins Groxis Board of Directors
"Adding John Seely Brown to our Board of Directors is a key milestone in our development and growth strategy at Groxis," said R.J. Pittman, CEO of Groxis.
"John Seely Brown was a mentor to the company before he knew about us.
Partnering with John Seely Brown will be an extraordinary opportunity for Groxis," said Groxis Chairman Paul Hawken.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-31-2003/0001882721&EDATE=   (647 words)

  
 Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Distributed Business
First, a perspective from John Seely Brown on Innovation Ecologies: long tails, swarms and path dependencies.
John Hagel, his co-author of The Only Sustainable Edge, was stuck in London.
I've seen John Seely Brown's talk on "innovation ecologies" a couple of times now, including today at Supernova 2005, and I think I'm finally coming to understand it.
ross.typepad.com /blog/2005/06/distributed_bus.html   (923 words)

  
 Edge Perspectives with John Hagel
He is beginning to see the importance of attention and how it will shape value creation on the Internet.
So, here is where we see the beginning of a paradox – some of the forces that Tom Friedman eloquently describes as flattening the world are at the same time helping to reinforce spikiness.
As we move into Web 2.0, we see a similar struggle for quick and easy valuation metrics that might free the weary investor from understanding whether there is a sustainable business behind the numbers.
www.edgeperspectives.typepad.com   (9278 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: johnseelybrown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Ross Mayfield tells me I must, must read the new book by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown, Can Your Firm Develop a Sustainable Edge?.
John Hagel comments on my recent post, All Edge, No Center: [from comment at post] Stowe - Sorry you were disappointed by our interview with Wharton...
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