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When it comes to communication in the 21st century, email is NOT good enough. We need to encourage more educators to SHARE ideas, resources, and media using tools like Posterous! If you can send an email, you can use Posterous. Many messages we create still SHOULD be sent with a "one to one" or "one to a defined many" distribution, but many of our ideas CAN and SHOULD be shared with "an undefined many." When we share ideas in this way, there is NO LIMIT to the number of people who could theoretically encounter and be influenced by our ideas. That is VERY powerful! To do this, we need to post content online using a tool like Posterous.

Build It With Me is a tool that connects design & development entrepreneurs. It exists to make creating apps easier by connecting you with like-minded designers & developers with the same goal: create cool & useful apps. Getting funding for your app idea is hard and often unrealistic. Most of the time you may just need to connect with a partner who has a skill set you lack to finish off your app. This is where Build It With Me is comes in, connecting you to those people. Skip the funding. Build It With Me will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps.

Unlike a traditional ad network, this one starts with a viral network at its very core. An @earlybird tweet seen by one million followers could be retweeted by just one percent and be seen by an additional 10,000 Twitter users. That's assuming a 1X pass along. Surely, some really good deals will be retweeted 20, 30, or many more times. In other words, @earlybird is, potentially, a very powerful idea.

Now, as Twitter recognized with its first ad-based tweets attempt, this program will only be as successful as the quality of the tweets, and by that I mean the advertising and deals. I assume Twitter has a team working with partners to create incredibly engaging, pithy, powerful, and ultra-attractive 140-character ads—at least I hope it does.

If Twitter's successful, the next phase is obvious: More ad network accounts. Some will be broad like this one. There'll likely be a "supersaver" account that offers really cheap deals. Then Twitter will move to more narrow categories, such as @automotivedeals and @technologyoffers. With each new, successful slice, Twitter ad accounts will get narrower and narrower until Twitter can charge extremely high prices for ultra-vertical ad accounts. Of course, Twitter has to build or acquire the right Twitter account names. Few as good as @earlybird are probably still available.

Johnson hat in seinem Buch Where Good Ideas Come From. The Natural History of Innovation den sich wandelnden Charakter von Innovationen beschrieben. Er räumt dabei mit dem Mythos des „genialen Erfinders“ auf und schildert immer wieder relativ lange Vorlauf-Phasen, die dem tatsächlichen Durchbruch einer Innovation vorausgehen. Er verwendet dafür den Begriff des slow hunch, der „langsamen (Vor-)Ahnung“, die lediglich einen unvollständigen Ansatz oder eine Teillösung für eine später erfolgende Innovation darstellt.

The HCD Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The free kit, available for download here, walks users through the human-centered design process and supports them in activities such as building listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas.

Russ Weakley, set out some ideas about ways to measure visitor engagement with our new website which seem to be quite useful on a broader scale.

We need to look at methods that measure quality rather than quantity.

Facebook replaces personal email

Open source software starts making money (thanks to the cloud)

Mobile commerce - The promise that has never delivered, yet

Watch Full Program 01 hr 12 min 07 sec Add to Profile 01. Introduction 04 min 40 sec Add to Profile 02. Fear of Search Results Exposed 07 min 47 sec Add to Profile 03. Privacy in Relation to Culture and Preferences 04 min 12 sec Add to Profile 04. Geo Targeting 06 min 15 sec Add to Profile 05. Opting Out 04 min 18 sec Add to Profile 06. Consent and Self-Regulation 05 min 11 sec Add to Profile 07. Google's Approach to Self-Regulation 05 min 20 sec Add to Profile 08. Technological Barriers to Regulation 08 min 29 sec Add to Profile 09. Ad Preferences / Transparency 04 min 05 sec Add to Profile 10. Difficulty of Multiple Platforms 06 min 39 sec Add to Profile 11. Solutions: Limitations of Data Retention 10 min 57 sec Add to Profile 12. <a clas