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- H2O + C = cool idea
- Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...
- Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- MI6 searching for the next generation
- Whilst walking the streets of London, with half a baguette in one hand and a coffee in the other, I am no more than 10 feet away from someone who tells people you're no more than 10 feet away from a rat. I call them civil servants personally, wandering around...
- Tags: Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?
- Information Week featured an article on Yahoo's Zimbra service for email and collaboration in use with educational institutions. While Zimbra, which "already provides e-mail through on-premises software at a number of marquee education accounts, including Stanford University, Georgia Tech, the University of California at Davis, Pennsylvania University, Northeastern, Carleton...
- Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Zimbra, E-mail, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Hey teachers...Just stay off the MySpace, OK?
- Hey teachers...Just stay off the MySpace, OK?Couldn't agree more..Being an IT person in education I have to agree with the School's decision. There is a fine line drawn there and it should remain a separation. I know of teachers in my District that have their students...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Social networking, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Hey teachers...Just stay off the MySpace, OK?
- It's reminiscent of the Pink Floyd classic, isn't it? Hey teachers...leave them kids alone. Should teachers be allowed to have MySpace, Facebook, and other social media sites? Sure, what teachers do on their own time is largely their own business. However, as Jeffrey Spanierman, an English...
- Tags: Student, Teacher, MySpace, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- The open source textbook conundrum
- The open source textbook conundrumCopyrightsThere's another issue, which is copyrights. I run a group of religious websites and one has a chart I prepared comparing Protestantism and Catholicism. I occasionally check the Net for links to my sites. I was quite surprised to find that the chart...
- Tags: Luiz, Grand Inquisitor, open source textbook, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Reducing Recruitment Spend: Smart Steps To Find Great Candidates
- Apply the tips from internet recruiting pioneer and recruitment marketing expert, Rob Humphrey, to strengthen your staffing program and lower costs now. Included in this report: effectively using free candidate source social networks to find quality candidates getting data to reduce and focus...
- Tags: Recruitment, Candidate, Jobvite, Marketing Research, Internet, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-10-10
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- CNET colleague Stephen Shankland discovered a neat way that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is using technology: political recruiting, direct to your iPhone. Styled much like his iPolitics-looking website, the tool has several features: one feature "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Tool, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, GPS, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- 14 ways IT screws up projects
- 14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...
- Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?Whitelist.With one home office and 100 branch offices, they all go through two different Squid proxy servers to hit the Internet. I have a file, named white by the way, that contain the URL's they are allowed to hit. It would be nice...
- Tags: INTERNET, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, whitelist, blacklist guy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension
- Zotero, a Firefox plug-in, looks like an amazing tool for academic and legal writing, what with "automatic citation capture" from webpages, formatted citation export and integration with WordPress. Developed by George Mason University, the tool has already been adopted by 100 major institutions. So who doesn't like it?...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Thomson Corp., GMU, Productivity, Open Source, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- UK secret service recruiting on Facebook
- MI6, a branch of the UK's secret service, is using Facebook as part of a recent recruitment drive to find the "next generation of spies". by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Recruiting, U.K., MI6, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Netbooks or notebooks?
- Netbooks or notebooks?Netbooks as Mac Thin client or PC thin clientWith the prolification of Netbooks and the dropping of prices, it's now possible and economical to use a Netbook to connect to a Mac OS X server or Windows Server running Windows softwarehttp://www.aquaconnect.net Mac server http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm ( PC Server...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS, Tablets, Operating systems, Thin clients, Netbooks, notebook, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger
- While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner's VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....
- Tags: Analyst, Blog, Gartner Inc., Blogger, Thomas, Tele-management, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Powerset studies student use of Wikipedia... and faculty resistance
- Earlier this month, Microsoft-owned Semantic Web startup Powerset released figures from a small survey of student use of Wikipedia. As I explore here, the results certainly do suggest that Wikipedia is popular with the cohort surveyed in this study. The trick for Powerset, presumably, is to convert...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- The coolest bits of classroom tech I've ever seen
- The coolest bits of classroom tech I've ever seenThese are nifty.Just don't forget to add in the cost of buying and labor to replace batteries.ClickersI don't know about Turning's system, but the one we have (Interwrite PRS, eInstruction) has software which will allow you to collect answers for "impromptu" questions,...
- Tags: clicker, coolest bit, classroom tech
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- SAP teams up with InnoCentive; Software IP questions abound
- Updated: SAP is partnering with InnoCentive, an "open innovation market place," to link so called "seekers," or companies looking to solve a business problem, with "solvers," developers that can save the day. For instance, SAP is looking for someone to create novel uses of social networking in enterprise applications. ...
- Tags: Team, IP, SAP AG, InnoCentive, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Social Networking, Cloud Computing, Networking, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
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