Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
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Dopo anni di lavoro nei variegati mondi della formazione tra scuola, università, privati e quant’altro riesco ancora a stupirmi dell’approssimazione e della superficialità con cui sono liquidate le questioni relative alla valutazione dell’e-learning. Già su quest’ultima parola ci sarebbe da ridire: il 90% delle volte, infat (Read More)
Submitted by Ivanwalsh
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Meet Captain Jing, eat Alphabetti Spaghetti, create lists in Robohelp, move technical writers to network thinking, LaTeX (not that type!), Why I Wasn’t Sold on Single Sourcing, The Moment I Felt Like an Executive, Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter? and how much does Darren Rowse earn from Blogging. What are you (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their p (Read More)
Submitted by Breebop
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Some Federal agencies are experimenting with interesting approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. These are the themes I heard in attended the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this (Read More)
SMC:posts:
I've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me.Insight #1An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
The truth about Linux today is that one may never have to actually touch a terminal or issue a single Linux command in order to run some versions of this flexible alternative operating system. While there are times when using the Linux command line could be expeditious and the benefits of possessing the ability to use it a (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
CosmoLearning è un sito adatto agli insegnanti e agli studenti di tutte le età.Contiene un’enorme quantità di corsi, video, lezioni, documentari online.I materiali didattici ed educativi sono suddivisi per materia e sono dei generi più variegati.Sebbene sia soltanto in Inglese merita l’attenzione di tutti gli appassionati d (Read More)
Mashable!:
Steve Cunningham is the CEO of Polar Unlimited, a digital marketing agency. To win a signed and personalized copy of each of the books mentioned here, visit Read It For Me.So you want to get up to speed fast on the latest social media thinking. Maybe give your colleague, boss or friend a dose of new social strategies. But (Read More)
Submitted by Davesaunders
from Google Reader:
Lack of time is the most frequently-mentioned reason for failing to write a book, create a blog, or write a brand-building series of articles. Employees, as well as entrepreneurs, blame “lack of time” as the biggest obstacle holding them back.Perceived lack of time is the most common reason for not writing a book, or engagi (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
Whenever I’m designing a leadership development workshop, I’m always aware of the cost of pulling 20 or so supervisors, managers, or executives away from their work for anywheres from 4 hours to 4 weeks. The biggest cost of any training program isn’t the instructors, travel, facilities, and food. It’s not even the salaries (Read More)
Submitted by Pink Lisa
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Two hungry kids tackle their bento lunch (Note: They’re not Linda’s kids, they are related to Maki :)) (Photo: Michiko Ebina) This is a guest post by Linda Rolle, a Japanese-American mom to twins and co-owner of the online stores Tru Renu and Tru Renu International. When our twins were born, we made all sorts of promises t (Read More)
BBC:
What connects Italian vegans, Valerie Singleton, and Linux Mint? Well they're all involved in a firm whose business is bringing computing to the elderly.Whether or not Simplicity Computing succeeds will be a big test of two things - the appetite of older people to get online and the attractiveness of open source software as (Read More)
Submitted by Ivanwalsh
from Google Reader:
The University of Limerick, Ireland offers an excellent online course for those who want to study technical writing at home.This university has a pretty amazing campus, specializes in the Arts and provides a conveyor belt of freshly-minted technical writers to Microsoft, Google and IBM in Ireland. It’s one of the few univer (Read More)