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There are some excellent periodicals on the market related to learnativity topics. The problems is that it�s hard to know what to read first! The following periodicals are some of our favorites. Also, many of them put their articles online for you to search and read. Let�s encourage them to continue by reading and referring others to these sites and periodicals.

Topics

  1. Innovation & Business
  2. Interactive Media
  3. Leadership
  4. Training & Education

Innovation & Business

Business 2.0: This magazine of the New Economy, looks at all that's new and noteworthy about the networked economy. Each issue goes in-depth to investigate and question global business issues, ecommerce, Internet movers and shakers, new business models, and the people and ideas that are changing the way we work. This is not business as usual.

Fast Company:  The handbook of the business revolution, each groundbreaking issue covers the latest business news and trends, leading-edge entrepreneurs, and of course, the fastest companies in business today. Note: This is the only publications many of our friends read from cover-to-cover.

Fortune is dedicated to the business executive and those striving to become one. The biweekly magazine attempts to present guidelines of how to improve business and personal management skills while regularly reporting on investment trends and analysis of current events in the business world.

Harvard Business Review is the journal of management thought and practice, written by authorities in business and business education. This bimonthly publication offers discussion and debate on agenda-setting issues of both national and international significance while challenging the conventional wisdom of management practice.

Knowledge Inc.: The Executive Report on Knowledge, Technology and Performance Knowledge Inc. is a monthly executive newsletter that covers trends in knowledge and Intellectual Capital management.

Technology ReviewTechnology Review is MIT's magazine of innovation. The magazine covers technological innovation where it is most rapid: biotechnology, IT, and nanotechnology as well as mature industries including transportation, construction, and energy. Stories cover emerging technology, advances in existing technologies, innovators, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, important breakthroughs that have commercial potential, and the impact of technology on culture and society. Note: Technology Review used to be heavy and not written for the techno-savy business manager without deep roots in academia.  It has, however, made great strides to attract a new audience and has several article gems each issue.

The Industry Standard calls itself the "voice and authority of the Internet Economy." Every week, it offers sophisticated coverage of the people, strategies, and business models that are central to this new economy. With insightful hard news and feature stories, personality profiles, original commentary, and special pages devoted to industry metrics, executive recruiting, and business-model reviews.

Wired magazine is daring, compelling, innovative, courageous, and insightful. It speaks to those who see the landscape of the 21st century and think: possibility, hope, new opportunity, and a wide-open frontier. Each month, Wired delivers authoritative stories Wiredthat identify the driving forces reshaping our culture with an emphasis on technology and the information revolution. Note: For a while, Wired really didn�t publish anything terrific. They seemed to have come out of the slump and they are worth looking at again.

Interactive Media

Interactions is ACM�s bimonthly magazine about applied human-computer interaction (HCI). Its primary objective is to communicate ideas, standards, practices, research results, and case studies to its readers. Users, developers, designers, managers, researchers, and purchasers interested in HCI will gain access to leading-edge ideas and tools that emerge from research and development, achieving a true technology transfer from R&D settings to the practitioner community.

InterActivity suspended publication in December 1998 but back issues are online and offer all sorts of interesting articles.

  • Don�t bother trying to subscribe. The magazine is no longer printed.

NewMedia is a free publications for Web and multimedia developers. NewMedia presents news and product information that makes it easier for you to be creative on the job.

Leadership

EXEC: The Executive�s Guide to Information Solutions http://corp2.unisys.com/execmag/index.htm

Leader to Leader publishes 2 articles from each edition online. Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning quarterly journal, offers cutting-edge thinking on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's top thought leaders from the private, public, and social sectors.

Training & Education

Inside Technology Training http://www.ittrain.com

Multimedia & Internet Training newsletter http://www.multimediatraining.com

Performance & Instruction http://www.ispi.org

Training http://www.trainingsupersite.com/

Training & Development http://www.astd.org/