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Sarah Wills

OpenSpaceWorld.ORG - 0 views

openspaceworld.org

shared by Sarah Wills on 28 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Sarah Wills on 28 Oct 10
     
    another site pertaining to unconference. When I read the about section, I found that one can have meetings through open space, and it provides a way to connect quickly and easily with people.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Ray Ozzie tells Microsoft to 'go beyond the PC' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11626624

digiciv open media web2.0

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • For the most part, we've grown to perceive of "computing" as being equated with specific familiar "artifacts" such as the "computer", the "program" that's installed on a computer, and the "files" that are stored on that computer's "desktop
  • Such thinking, he said, was becoming less and less relevant as the way people used computers and what they did changed
  • Connections rather than computers were more important
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  • To prosper and stay relevant, he said, Microsoft must embrace this change and get to grips with a world that cares about "continuous services" rather than computers
  • Brandon McCloskey on 27 Oct 10
     
    Wow, this is really relevant to a lot of things we've been talking about in class. I highlighted a good part of it.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Why companies watch your every Facebook, YouTube, Twitter move - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11450923

socialmedia business digiciv

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • These days one witty Tweet, one clever blog post, one devastating video - forwarded to hundreds of friends at the click of a mouse - can snowball and kill a product or damage a company's share price.
  • It's a dramatic shift in consumer power. But what if companies could harness this power and turn it to their advantage?
  • At the most basic, these tools measure the volume of social media chatter. Researchers at Hewlett Packard showed that they can accurately predict a Hollywood movie's box office takings by counting how often it is mentioned on Twitter before it opens.
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  • One European clothing company, popular with inner city youth in the United States, admits privately that its social media team is baffled by its customers' ever changing slang, and even the online Urban Dictionary provides little help.
  • Social media is quickly becoming a customer relationship management system, as companies have "for the first time access to people's minds in real-time," says Jorn Lyseggen. The tools on offer provide companies with dashboards that show trends, hot topics, the reach of brands, customer mood and how competitors are doing.
  • Social media may be all the buzz, but in reality "only a few firms get it [and use it], it's of peripheral interest for most", says Tom Austin at technology consultancy Gartner. Few realise that using social media has become much more than customer service and reputation management.
  • many social media tools are poorly integrated into the corporate workflow
  • But there are dangers. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway warns that the obsession with social networking can make management lose focus.
  • To survive the world of social media, companies have to throw away their old marketing playbook.
  • "don't push... and don't pretend you are hip"
  • "Once companies have worked out that they should do something with social media, they usually don't know how to do it,"
  • "If you want to influence the people who influence your customers, that's a very powerful game, but it's also very dangerous if you get it wrong."
  • it's not about how many friends or followers somebody has, but whether they make an impact.
  • When Virgin America recently launched new routes from California to Toronto, it used Klout to identify a small group of social media "influencers" and gave them free flights. This generated thousands of tweets, triggered press coverage and delivered more immediate impact than traditional advertising.
  • "Consumers are spending their attention on social media," he says, but firms don't know how to repay them properly. "There's no manual for that yet."
  • Social media are dynamic, and today's Twitter may be tomorrow's forgotten website. "Don't assume that what works today will work tomorrow," says Tom Austin at Gartner. "Your model has to be continually adapted."
Brandon McCloskey

Crowdsourcing: Turning customers into creative directors - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11437839

crowdsourcing digiciv economy

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • "What we think is good for the consumer doesn't matter - it's what the consumer thinks is good that matters."
  • When you link the consumer to the manufacturer there are huge areas of opportunity
  • It's the internet, of course, that makes crowdsourcing possible - on a global scale.
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  • But there are pitfalls. "The biggest caveat is the issue of curation. It's great you opening the gates up to everybody - but all of a sudden you're going to get a lot more stuff."
  • "We later learned that it was this revolutionary business model. I think the reason it's so pure like that is the reason it's worked so well as a crowdsourcing company."
  • "I think that the way companies are seeing crowdsourcing is a lot different from the way we see it. They are looking at it as this new business model, as a way to outsource your work to an anonymous crowd of people. We're more about giving people something productive to do with their passions."
  • it's not so much the software that makes the company, it's the community
  • "It's an affordable way to be ahead. You're able to see what your customers are thinking and what they're dreaming of, and you're able to measure that against what you're doing."
  • His concern is that by "mining" the crowd in this way, the wealth that results from the work done remains concentrated in the hands of the people who put out the call - ultimately endangering jobs and the economy. Mr Lanier also believes that crowdsourcing threatens creativity.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    Examples of successful crowdsourcing
Katherine Chipman

Alsos:The Atomic Age: Historical Overview - 0 views

alsos.wlu.edu/history.aspx

atomic

shared by Katherine Chipman on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • scientists unraveled the structure of the atom, revealing the electron and proton. 
  • in 1938 fission of uranium atoms by neutrons was carried out in Germany. The energy associated with fission opened the possibility for powerful weapons and also the production of energy for civilian use.
  • The United Nations attempted to develop a policy for control of nuclear weapons, but the United States and the Soviet Union could not agree. This was but one component of the emerging Cold War between the two nations. Citizens of all nations saw the power of nuclear fission as massive threat as well as a source of useful energy for mankind.
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  • In 1963 the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty became the first agreement to control nuclear weapons.
  • The accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States (1979) and Chernobyl, in the Ukraine (1986) had adverse effects on the use of nuclear reactors for producing power
Brandon McCloskey

Top judge says internet 'could kill jury system' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/uk-11796648

government

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 21 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The jury system may not survive if it is undermined by social networking sites
  • "We cannot stop people tweeting, but if jurors look at such material, the risks to the fairness of the trial will be very serious, and ultimately the openness of the trial process on which we all rely, would be damaged."
  • Brandon McCloskey on 21 Nov 10
     
    Interesting effects of social media
Madeline Rupard

A Tool to Pronounce Every Word in the World - 0 views

www.forvo.com/languages

digiciv open language technology international world

shared by Madeline Rupard on 19 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 19 Nov 10
     
    It is what it is. A pretty cool, relatively simple resource.
Madeline Rupard

How "cuil" is it to misspell your brand name? - 0 views

chrisbaskind.com/...it-to-misspell-your-brand-name

mainstream digiciv open computer internet www consumerism capitalism

shared by Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10
     
    So true. Flickr. Prezi. Diigo. Scribd. All about the hilarity of trending website's names.
Madeline Rupard

Widget Box - Widget Maker - 0 views

www.widgetbox.com

digiciv open internet communication blog web 2.0 awesome

shared by Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10
     
    So, I just used this for my blog: http://tamesequels.blogspot.com, and will shortly be posting a digital literacy lab for this. Basically, if you want to put a blog feed as a widget on another blog, you can customize one for free on this website. It's really easy and it gives you a code at the end of the customization to post. Check out my blog to see one. It's the "My Photography" section, and you'll see how it posts everything from that blog really nicely. A great tool for making your website alive.
Andrew DeWitt

Dashboard * ScribTeX online LaTeX editor - 0 views

www.scribtex.com/account

research editor scribtex open

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 09 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 09 Dec 10
     
    Say goodbye to WinEdit
Bri Zabriskie

Thoughts on education and creativity - 0 views

jaremfrye.com/?p=121

education digiciv economics evolution open collaboration digital revolution

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 16 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 16 Dec 10
     
    YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT THE NEED FOR AN EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION!!!
Jeffrey Chen

Web 2.0 strategy - 1 views

www.slideshare.net/...trategy-10-tactics-for-success

Strategy success club 2.0 web open digiciv

shared by Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10
     
    A great slide that helped my group and myself plan how to best apply web 2.0 strategies to our club 2.0
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