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Friday Faves is our weekly blog series highlighting a few select pieces from the REG team’s reading lists. You can catch up on past Friday Faves on the archive. 

Mapping the Internet

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Anne says: This map of the internet is extraordinary, beautiful, fascinating and mesmerising. I couldn’t stop looking at it. It was created by Martin Vargic, who was inspired by National Geographic Magazine’s cartographic style

Amateur graphic designer Martin Vargic visualized those spaces as countries on a vast globe inspired by National Geographic Magazine. (Although National Geographic borrowed its cartographic style from early world maps. The main websites (Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon etc) are represented as countries, the seas become oceans of data. It’s complicated and in some ways provides a visualisation of just what our online world looks like. Take a few minutes and read about his methodology here (spoiler: it’s not guesswork).

Vargic calls users of the internet, residents. Yes, that’s you if you’re reading this! I found myself returning to look at this a number of times and also wondering, as an explorer, what might it look like in 5 maybe 10 years…

Happy exploring!

Read: https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/a-beautiful-high-resolution-map-of-the-internet-2021.html

Ask these 10 questions to find out if your hybrid workplace could be toxic

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Jakkii says: Culture has a significant impact not just on attracting and retaining employees, but on your ability to operate effectively. Working remotely or in a hybrid model in particular are most effective with cultures that promote openness, trust and transparency, as well as enabling and empowering employees.

Being proactive about culture, including sense checking to determine if it’s veering off track, is important whether your people are working in the office, working from home, or operating in a hybrid environment. This article takes a look at 10 questions you can ask to help you uncover if there are elements of toxicity in your hybrid workplace culture, which in turn will enable you to take action to fix them.

The questions are:

1. What are the hybrid and remote policies?

2. Does everyone walk the walk?

3. What communication tools are used and how?

4. How are employees celebrated?

5. How does the company communicate?

6. When and how are meetings scheduled?

7. Where is information shared?

8. What do career paths look like?

9. Does the company provide the right tools?

10. Is the policy all talk?

The article of course offers some more detail on what they mean by each, and it is worth a read. It’s useful to have a framework within which you can examine your current culture, and these questions certainly provide some structure in order to do just that. Taking stock periodically will allow you to see how you’re tracking – positively or negatively – over time, as well.

Read: https://www.fastcompany.com/90646872/ask-these-10-questions-to-find-out-if-your-hybrid-workplace-could-be-toxic

Friday Fives

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Hybrid workplace and the future of work

• The hybrid working era will introduce a range of new team building activities

• Rethinking the fundamentals of remote and physical workplaces

• When it comes to the workplace, even the intelligence community is going ‘hybrid’

• Remaking the workspace to boost social connection

• The hybrid workplace and return to the office; 10 approaches to consider

Remote work and the digital workplace

• Why remote work works and tips for creating a remote company culture

• Lessons learned: one VP shares his remote onboarding challenges and best practices

• Google just made a major service free as it takes on Slack and Microsoft Teams

• What we lose in a virtual workplace

• The dream of the techno-utopian workplace is dead. Remote work proved that digitizing the workplace isn’t liberating, it’s a company-controlled nightmare.

Communication, collaboration, engagement, and culture

• Strategically building organisation culture

• Research: amplifying your colleagues’ voices benefits everyone

• 15 practical ways to build a culture of adaptability in your organisation

• A step-by-step guide to asynchronous collaboration

• Building a workplace culture that thrives beyond COVID-19

Community, moderation and misinformation

• 11 ways to create community in a ‘hybrid’ work environment

• After Trump ban, Facebook oversight panel pushes for more say

• Skipping the Q: How to handle your conspiracy-loving friends

• Facebook rolls out new tools for Group admins, including automated moderation aids

• The problem with Facebook’s attempt to be more like Nextdoor

Bonus: Facebook develops new method to reverse-engineer deepfakes and track their source

Privacy and data

• US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to create a new agency to deal with data privacy

• Encryption, crime-fighting, and the balancing act between community safety and individual privacy

• If Facebook is building an Apple Watch killer, the only thing that’ll die is privacy

• DuckDuckGo’s quest to prove online privacy is possible

• Apple’s and Google’s new AI wizardry promises privacy—at a cost

Big Tech, tech and regulation

• Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook targeted by new pack of antitrust bills

• A meme stock is born: How to spot the next Reddit favourite and do meme traders need to be protected from themselves?

• TikTok’s Trump problem is now TikTok’s Biden problem

• The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back

• Apple says it’s time to digitise your ID, ready or not

Social media

• Twitter’s testing a ‘DON’T @ ME BRO’ feature

• Facebook’s new podcast listening tools are set to be launched next week

• Instagram Reels now has ads

• Sweat gives influencers something they’ve never had: depth

• IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups

Extras

Notifications are blowing up.
*checks news*
Ah. There’s an eclipse

— Bonnie Tyler (@BonnieTOfficial) June 10, 2021

This is interesting: A pivotal mosquito experiment could not have gone better

Things that make you go hmmm: Indigenous people are the world’s biggest conservationists, but they rarely get credit for it

Space: Test out next-gen apace tech in Kerbal Space Program

Podcast: UX Dark Patterns & UX on TikTok with Mary Formanek

Friday playlist: Time Out’s 50 best road trip songs

Sydney Business Insights – The Future, This Week Podcast

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This week: what we saw when the internet went down and changing minds about the scientific paradox.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

The stories this week

08:40 – Someone broke the internet, again

17:06 – Changing minds about when science changes its mind

Listen: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/breaking-the-internet-and-the-scientific-paradox-on-the-future-this-week/