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Megan Conn

THE FUTURIST Magazine Releases Its Top 10 Forecasts for 2013 and Beyond | World Future ... - 3 views

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    THE FUTURIST Magazine releases its top ten forecasts for 2013 and beyond.
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    Top 10 forecasts for 2013 and beyond
David Bloom

When you and employer split, who gets your friends and followers? - Red Tape - 0 views

  • A controversial court ruling last week has shined a light on this made-in-the-digital age problem: Who owns Twitter followers, Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections when employers and employees part ways?
Ruth Cuadra

Third Space Encounters: Hybridity, Mimicry and Interstitial Practice - 0 views

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    The social encounter is a particular kind of meeting from which a wide range of different responses may emerge (e.g., confusion, misunderstandings, tension,trauma, and possibly social change)
Ileana Maestas

Participatory budgeting - 2 views

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    New ways to consider budgeting.
David Bloom

Restaurants Use Instagram To Tap Into Food Porn Obsession - 0 views

  • If you're on Instagram, then you know there are plenty of people addicted to pulling out their cell phones to take snapshots of the greasy burgers, frothy mochas and picturesque cupcakes they eat while out on the town.
  • Now Comodo, a Latin American restaurant in New York's SoHo neighborhood, is, by creating an "Instagram menu."
Gina Hall

Zócalo Public Square :: Why On Earth Am I Looking At This? - 0 views

  • Most Museums Have Trouble Connecting To the Public. Maybe It's Time For Some New Ideas.
  • underprepared for their pending encounter with the visual arts
  • many audience members seem intuitively aware of what is missing: more access to the story explaining how and why a work has arrived at this place for their enjoyment.
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  • soldiering through the galleries and paying minimal attention to the exhibits prepared expressly for their viewing
  • reanimated by the opportunities to engage in eating, spending, and talking on the phone—activities compatible with a sidewalk stroll.
  • critical message about the socializing function of the city
  • There is scientific data, too, upon which to build an argument for ensuring that we do better by our museum guests.
  • participation in the arts, especially as audience, predicted civic engagement, tolerance, and altruism.”
  • “[T]he space of the art museum is an inherently public or civic space,” wrote Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, in a recent essay. “Art museums in this context need to be understood as quintessentially urban institutions that play a critical role in defining the intellectual and physical fabric of cities and towns.”
Ruth Cuadra

10 Innovative Materials To Look Out For In 2012 - 0 views

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    it is estimated that 70% of all new product innovation is based on materials with new or improved properties.
Ruth Cuadra

Zeroing in on the 'science of sound propagation' in burning buildings - 0 views

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    studying the science of sound propagation inside burning buildings may one day become a life-saving addition to firefighters' arsenal of tools.
Ruth Cuadra

E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co : Sustainability Challenges Cost as Packaging Industry's ... - 0 views

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    While today's packaging professional is focused on cost, performance and food safety/security, sustainability will replace cost as a dominant trend in 10 years, according to a study done by Packaging World and DuPont. Food safety/security is and will remain a top trend, respondents say.
Ruth Cuadra

Faking It: A Visual History of 150 Years of Image Manipulation Before Photoshop | Brain... - 0 views

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    in the quarter century since, the rise of digital photography and image manipulation software has increasingly transmogrified the photographer into a constructor of reality, a reality in which believing is seeing
Ruth Cuadra

Digilogue: the convergence of the digital and analogue - 0 views

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    Change doesn't care if you like it or not. A computer interface can never really replace a human face...or can it?
Ruth Cuadra

Building Brand Advocates [INFOGRAPHIC] - 0 views

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    In a worldwide Nielsen survey, 92% of online consumers said they completely trust or somewhat trust recommendations from people they know and 70% said the same of consumer opinions posted online.
Ruth Cuadra

Nokia Releases Nail Polish Line to Match Phone - 0 views

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    Nail polish colors to match your phone.  I guess that means the Getty will need to have "travertine" (beige/gray) polish for all docents and volunteers ;-)
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