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Current activities at the Electronic Information Privacy Center
and networked. course, but what's really challenging is how data collection and dissemination rather than pursuing the idealistic but impractical course of training people When Marc Rotenberg founded the Electronic Information Information Privacy Center in 1994, I doubt he realized how fast their their scope would swell as more and more
OReilly Radar - Friday, March 19, 2010
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How Cheap Could Computing Get: Free? NComputing Thinks So
Ncomputing makes powerful chips that make thin clients work: Essentially turning a keyboard, mouse, monitor and small box of electronics into a fully-functioning powerful Windows or Linux PC, with its real complex "guts" in a different location accessed over a network, and serving up desktops to many different users. Of course, it'll never get there, as someone has to make a profit for the business to function. If you assume a desktop computer's a big box full of chips, hard drives and other paraphernalia, it's hard to see how to make it cheaper. Unless you go down the virtualization
Fast Company - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Test Driving RandomDorm: Collegiate, Dude-Heavy Version of ChatRoulette
course, these dudes instantly nexted me. It’s a feature that Weinstein says would be less appealing if the other individual weren’t a member of your social network or college community. "In As the spotlight beams brightly on ChatRoulette and its attendant lumps, humps, and hairy backs, there is another, more wholesome, site that's just debuted. It promises all the thrill of videochatting with strangers with the protection that comes from limiting the audience to college coeds in possession of an .edu
Fast Company - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • Networking Reconsidered
    Social networking is becoming more important, both at the individual and institutional level. It conjures up images of classical networking and schmoozing, driven by individuals intent upon prying business cards out of others and relentlessly expanding their contact lists, manipulatively using their contacts to advance their own interests. Our focus on social networks has a very different emphasis. For many, this provokes a negative reaction. In fact we would argue that classical networking approaches tend to undermine rather than support the value of social networks.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, January 4, 2010
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  • Forwarding Is the New Networking
    Michael Schrage recently wrote a post on this site about the importance of forwarding information as a way to enhance network relationships. Forwarding is the new networking. OK, it's not really the new networking, since it's been going on for more than a decade now. He's right about this, although the title — "The Disadvantage of Twitter and Facebook" — is misleading (and inaccurate, since people retweet things all the time — but sadly, editors know that anything with Facebook and Twitter in the title gets a lot of page views and retweets). The fact that you
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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  • Online Learning Course Design
    The Work Literacy online learning course is over and Michele Martin - Deconstructing the Work Literacy Learning Event and Harold Jarche - Post Work Literacy have posted their thoughts around the event. Here are some thoughts on the course and the implications for design of similar kinds of online learning courses. Social Network as Course Platform Like social networks generally, Ning, unfortunately feels a bit scattered. We also have some great Feedback from Participants . I think they've both captured a lot of what worked and could have
    eLearning Technology - Monday, November 17, 2008
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  • Waking up to the economics of networked learning
      Via Stephen Downe s, Judy Breck believes, and I agree, that the economic crunch will speed the advent of network learnin g. This is not, of course, a done deal, but  economic necessity will force us to look more closely at these issues. And crucially, we can now consider such possibilities because of the network. Getting a college education in the US is absurdly expensive, but like property, or the stock market, the education bubble too will burst - the financial institutions simply no longer have the money to fund the madness. Change is on the way.
    Ken Carroll - Thursday, October 9, 2008
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  • How to Ask a (Near) Stranger for a Favor
    My name is Patrick, I was in Professor Bob's capstone course where you came in and spoke to us about your book and your experiences in the business world. Tags: Business writing Communication Networkin Professor, I graduated in May and have entered the Brand Licensing industry.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, August 31, 2009
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  • How to Write an Elevator Pitch
    Or a short story that you can tell in the course of a elevator ride. Briefly, Ning lets you create your own social network for anything. We have over 115,000 user-created networks, and our page views are growing 10% per week. [Traction.] Tags: Communication Entrepreneurship Networkin What's an elevator pitch? An elevator pitch is a brief e-mail summary of your business.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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  • Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site
    What we do have to think about [in the era of social networking] is human to human interaction," he said. Of course, there is one more; the one that must not be named, and perhaps the unofficial Raison d'etre for Stack Overflow, is basically just a big sneaky tricky mess. The second answer, of course is always the highest ranked community answer. Picture if you will, a collaborative site that runs on two servers, is managed by four people, and has attracted a third of its target demographic within six months of launch. A site that has had 800,000 posts submitted by
    ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, May 2, 2009
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  • HP Researchers Design Intelligent Social Network with Focus on "Real" Friends
    New from HP's Social Computing Lab comes news of Friendlee, an entirely new kind of social network that focuses on the intimate connections between close friends, family, and colleagues. The application, designed to operate on your mobile phone, tracks your call and messaging history to provide an ambient awareness of who your "real" friends are and then adds those people to your social network. Not only that, but Friendlee also tracks the businesses you call frequently to identify your preferred services which can then be used as recommendations to your network of friends.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, May 1, 2009
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  • Beyond the course
    Without going into all the thinking (it’s elaborated more in several places, including this white paper ; PDF), the point is that supporting people in performance includes not just courses, but content and job aids, and connections to people.  The interesting thing for me is that this provides a strong justification for using social networks in learning: wikis can be places where people can store the information about problems they’ve solved, discussion boards and profiles fill the need of finding expertise, blogs may support people in their problem-solving as well, serving
    Learnlets - Monday, December 1, 2008
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  • Network Skills
    I personally believe that one of the areas where learning professionals need the most help is how communities and networks impact learning and building individual and facilitation skills around these: Knowing how to individually leverage Network Skills and Communities to help with work and learning tasks Community and Network Facilitation Skills to help others learn and work using networks and communities In my post Networks and Learning Communities , I looked a bit at this topic. But, I by no means consider myself an expert and find that I
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 16, 2009
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