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A wiki on summaries of mainstream books - fiction & non-fiction.

" Useful summary of jenny's study plus links to other related slide-packs"

"The Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity meeting held at the Getty Center on Feb 8-10, 01998 produced some remarkable insights into the future uses of digital technologies and their impact on the documentation of cultural heritage (see press clippings for summary detail). We will be posting transcripts, images, and video clips from the meeting here in coming days. If you are interested in registering to take part in on-line discussions please do so at the Time & Bits Discussion section of this site."

Using sophisticated statistical and linguistic algorithms, it pinpoints the key concepts and extracts the most relevant sentences, resulting in a Web site or document summary that is a shorter, condensed version of the original text.

"Thought provoking atricle in summary: "Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.""

"summary of commercial and other reasons why it makes sense for organisaitons to leverage group learning."

Harnessing your Staff's informal networks by Richard McDermott and Douglas Archibald

" Summary of Richard McDermott and Douglas Archibald's KIN / IKON Phase l CoPs benchmarking study"

A summary of 6 AI technologies that will have the most impact on jobs in the near future.

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project fielded a nationally representative phone survey about the social and civic lives of SNS users and reported the findings in June 2011 in a report entitled "Social networking sites and our lives."1 During the phone survey, 269 of 877 original respondents who were Facebook users gave us permission to access data on their use of Facebook so that it could be matched with their survey responses. We partnered with Facebook to match individual responses from the survey with profile information and computer logs of how those same people used Facebook services over a one-month period in November 2010 that overlapped when the survey was in the field.

"University of Ottowa animated video describing a formal peer-assist process"

Is Social Media a fad?