InformedTrades:
As you may have noticed, InformedTrades Funds are now available through the InformedTrades Capital Markets store. IT Funds are meant to be a learning tool to help our community find the profitable strategies and funds. Here's how it works:1. You invest your InformedPoints by buying shares of funds in the ITCM store. 2. The (Read More)
Moving at the Speed of Creativity:
This podcast is a reflection I recorded on a flight back to the United States from the October / November 2009 21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China. There are some issues about which I am reticent to blog, given their poliltical sensitivity in China, but want to share and reflect upon because of the importan (Read More)
TwitLinks:
As we rush to purchase Apple products and services on Cupertino’s monochrome treadmill of shiny shiny I can’t help thinking the open web community is losing something vital - a commitment to net neutrality and platform openness.If a single company can decide what plays on the network and what does not, in arbitrary fashion, (Read More)
Submitted by Morgan
from Google Reader:
I meet a lot of experts everyday. Particularly when it comes to the social Web. Merlin Mann’s video about the difference between a true expert and an advanced beginner really hits home in this age of self-proclaimed experts. His argument? That many on the Web ignore the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. The premise of (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stage at Startup School, where Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston is interviewing him. I’m liveblogging the interview below.Mark Zuckerberg: “I love being here. These are like, my people.Q: I want to go way back, before Facebook. What did you learn from those experienc (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The last thing the world needs is another video site, right? Well, that’s not stopping Aaron Crayford, who convinced a bunch of his supercomputer engineer buddies to put together Rippol, a video discovery site that blends hardcore machine learning with social streams. Rippol (not to be confused with rrripple, the media sh (Read More)
Submitted by Lionelane
from Google Reader:
When the New York Times announced yesterday that they had to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs in a mere 2 1/2 months, it was a chilling arrow shot across both the media and PR professions.Job loss of any kind is miserable and debilitating. When you sit back and think about 100 reporters and editors losing their jobs, it's an inc (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.I spent Columbus Day in Sunnyvale, fittingly, meeting with a roomful (Read More)
Submitted by Scrappinmichele
from Google Reader:
Blogworld …land of the infamous and the not so famous…but where everybody wants to know someone or be known by someone. At this point in my blogging career it has been about getting to know people. I have learned a great lesson from my Blogworld experience that I thought I already knew, but now realize I haven’t done a ve (Read More)
BBC:
Last week, I promised to kick the tyres of Google's shiny new collaborative communications tool Wave - and to let you know how it looked. Well, sorry for the delay - but it took days for the invitations I'd sent to friends and colleagues to arrive and without anyone to talk to, Wave is, well, pointless. But now that my coll (Read More)
Inside Higher Ed:
I am an experienced and, I'm told, a provocative speaker.I also lecture in HR and change management at the Cotrugli Business Academy in Croatia.And I deliver the Human Capital Strategist programme in the UK and Europe for the Human Capital Institute (HCI).Some of the topics I am ready to present on include: Human Capita (Read More)
Moving at the Speed of Creativity:
Spam is a rampant problem not only with email, but increasingly with Twitter and other social networking sites and platforms including Ning. In the case of our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community (built with Ning) our administrative team moderates new members to try and insure they are educators interested in digit (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
There is little doubt that most organizations have a sincere desire to connect with their target talent markets. They spend millions (perhaps billions) of dollars a year analyzing their potential candidates.How can we attract the right talent?How do we connect with our ideal candidates?Social Media, for all its wonders, is (Read More)
wired-top-stories:
As popular as the concept has become on the web, the idea that a website has any permanent hold over your photos, blog posts, messages and other data is just ridiculous. Your data is yours, and just because it’s difficult to get it out of some web services doesn’t mean it still doesn’t fully belong to you.Data portability o (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Japanese company Cerego, the brains behind the social learning platform iKnow!, has raised $3.4 million in a round of funding from NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier. To date, Cerego has raised a total of $23.4 million in funding since its launch in 2000.Cerego originally launched iKnow as an online service fo (Read More)