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Barbara Lindsey

Sacramento Press / We don't need no stinking badges? - 0 views

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authority knowledge reporting news infomation

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 03 Feb 10
     
    A made-from-scratch platform for hyperlocal news and advertising uses storylines, rather than articles or posts, to organize current and archived information. The site advances and integrates interface design, Web publishing, data analytics, digital media and the social Web to deliver a unique, warm and engaging hyper-local user experience. Rolling out authority badges to distinguish staff refporters from community contributors
Barbara Lindsey

Will Your College Be Covered in Virtual Graffiti? - Technology - The Chronicle of Highe... - 2 views

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tagging geotagging universities virtual graffiti

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  • It's a lot easier to get ahead of the curve and to guide people into some of these technologies, as opposed to after the fact going back and trying to correct" their behavior, says the interactive-media manager.
  • Universities are still figuring out how to deal with Facebook and Twitter and other interactive programs which, like much of what's called Web 2.0, are largely out of their control. Now they'll have to wrestle with the power and pitfalls of an even more in-your-face social-media tool.
  • The University of Texas at Dallas is taking a different approach. Lately the 16,000-student state university has become a laboratory for what happens when students and professors go wild with unofficial tagging.
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  • If you're scratching your head wondering what this has to do with education, here's Mr. Terry's answer: The technology will, he says, transform disciplines.
  • Perry Hewitt, digital-communications director at Harvard, says privacy is a serious issue. She also points out that similar sky-is-falling predictions were raised when the answering machine was introduced.
  • Mr. Terry's students will present a smartphone application they have built, called Placethings, which lets you tie pictures, video, and audio to locations and map that multimedia trail into a narrative.
  • Gartner, a technology-research company, forecasts that by 2013 mobile phones will pass personal computers as the most common way people worldwide get access to the Internet. But the practice of cellphone users' tying content to place is so new that you can really believe only one prediction with much confidence. Which is this: As location tagging goes more mainstream in the next few years, today's efforts will look trivial.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 14 Mar 10
     
    Thx to @academicdave
Celeste Arrieta

Garr Reynolds/Presentations - 0 views

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      Celeste Arrieta on 22 Mar 10
       
      SIMPLICITY!!
  • you have to think very hard about what to include and what can be left out.
  • essence
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  • message
  • audience could remember only three things about your presentation,what would you want it to be?
  • analog
  • the best presenters often scratch out their ideas and objectives with a pen and paper.
  • whiteboard
  • sketch out my ideas
  • write down ke
  • points
  • outline and structure
  • speaking and connecting to an audience
  • persuade
  • storyboard
  • I draw sample images that I can use to support a particular point, say, a pie chart here, a photo there, perhaps a line graph
  • content to flow
  • notes
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  • presentation structure
  • logic of your content and the flow of the presentation
  • (so what?
  • "sell" your message in 30-45 seconds. I
  • essence of your presentation content and write it on the back of a business card?
  • Good presentations include stories. The best presenters illustrate their points with the use of storie
  • relevant
  • remember
  • memorable
  • remember
  • Good stories have interesting, clear beginnings, provocative, engaging content in the middle, and a clear, logical conclusion
  • rehearsed
  • several times
  • What is the purpose of the event?
  • Who is the audience?
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