October 25, 2009
Workplace communication used to be simple. Now the options have grown.
A survey by Forrester Research, however, shows that many information workers are using new technology only selectively. The most popular forms are e-mail, word processing, Web browsers and spreadsheets. While 87 percent of the workers use e-mail, only 26 percent use instant messaging.
Whether that is good or bad is an open question. Depending on the worker, adding a new technology can increase efficiency, or it can turn into time-wasting distraction.
[Source: New York Times]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
October 20, 2009
Twitter and Facebook ask users to answer the question: What are you doing right now?
But for many urbanites in their 20s and 30s, two other questions are just as important: Where are you, and can I come join you?
For them, a fast-growing social networking service called Foursquare is becoming the tool of choice. A combination of friend-finder, city guide and competitive bar game, Foursquare lets users “check in” with a cellphone at a bar, restaurant or art gallery. That alerts their friends to their current location so they can drop by and say hello.
“It’s planned serendipity,” said Emily Woolf, 24, a strategic planner living in Brooklyn who checks in on Foursquare when she wants to grab coffee or a drink with friends. “At this point, I don’t even bother texting or calling my friends. I just check Foursquare to see if they’re nearby and go meet them.”
via Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face – NYTimes.com.
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Posted by Teb Locke
October 6, 2009
Two tech-happy English professors have started a group blog that provides tips for making the most of Internet tools for teaching and research. With 10 regular contributors, the blog is getting 10,000 page views a week.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
August 26, 2009
S. Craig Watkins, an associate professor of radio, TV, and film at the University of Texas at Austin, talks about the new age of social networking and media, and what it means for the classroom of the future. His soon-to-be-published book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future, touches on those ideas.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
August 12, 2009
Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks — American higher education is changing.
[Source: Fast Company - via John Romanski]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
July 23, 2009
Harvard is once again in the news for something besides losing gargantuan amounts of money, with Harvard University Presss recent announcement that it will publish a selection of titles digitally through Scribd. Does Harvards move both the losing money part and the going digital part represent the future of academic publishing?
[Source: Ars Technica]
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