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- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social mediaMaybe the root problem is......The seemingly total inability to spell or proof read? This blog is unreadable on its face apart from the blather of whatever the argument might be -- "argingerging," "ligs anogs," "chaineasinleasing hhuge," "Onoblem. Onlat can retrocan." Is this insider...
- Tags: poverty, social media, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, incoherence, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Will co-habitation be a new business for Facebook?
- Guest post: Fresh from a sojourn to UK where he grew up, Chris Matyszczyk considers the latest trend in London home buying--speed-dating via Facebook to find co-buyers for real estate purchases. When I think of England, I think of poverty. Poverty of weather, poverty...
- Tags: Facebook, Poverty, Image, Sharetobuy.com, Mortgages, Real Estate, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Google, Cisco lend a hand to UN's fight against poverty
- Google, Cisco lend a hand to UN's fight against povertyDo we reallyunderstand that people in poverty can't "EAT" the web pages for tracking if they are feed or not!!!Another stupid adventure for self glory of these companies.Google stock price> Yesterday's close: $707.00 U.SMarket value> With a market value of nearly...
- Tags: Investment, poverty, Cisco Systems Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Google, Cisco lend a hand to UN's fight against poverty
- With the help of Google and Cisco, the UN is launching a new website to help track how the world is doing in fighting poverty and development goals. The site includes Google Earth map and satellite imagery as well as statistics on how a range of countries are doing at...
- Tags: Google Inc., Poverty, Site, Cisco Systems Inc., Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Is poverty the cause of low broadband penetration?
- In his DSL Prime newsletter, Dave Burstein takes a view that FCC Chair Kevin Martin's focus on improving broadband penetration by focusing on rural areas is not necessarily the quickest way to get there."There are not enough unservable rural homes to be the major explanation," Dave wisely writes. "Martin's...
- Tags: trends, Predictions and Observations
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Bill Gates, charity and ending poverty
- Bill Gates, charity and ending povertyWell..."Good luck Bill, even the Linux guys want you to succeed at this!"Maybe most do, but check out the other ZDNet article about Buffet and Gates for some who aren't as forgiving as you are. :)Carl RapsonAyn Rand......would have none of this "poverty assistance" stuff....
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, poverty, Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Do Note
- Discussion threads 2006-06-27
- Bill Gates, charity and ending poverty
- Bill Gates announced his "retirement" plans live on Microsoft's corpnet an hour before I headed for LAX to make a week-long trip to Mexico. It wasn't your typical trip, as it started in Mexico City and veered into Vera Cruz state by way of Orizaba (the site...
- Tags: poverty, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Sachs
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- US median household income was $44,389 in 2004
- The real median income of US households was essentially unchanged at $44,389 in 2004, according to US Census Bureau. The official poverty rate increased from 12.5% to 12.7%, representing 37 mln people in poverty, up from 35.9 mln in 2003. Among children, the poverty rate remained at 17.8% or 13...
- Tags: income, poverty
- Blog posts 2005-08-30
- Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?
- Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?Timing of this story is dubious at bestWhyzit that these stories of global warming and disasters etc ALWAYS seem to crop up whenever Bush is doing something uber public?I have my (cough, cough) theories. Oh yeah and I liked the nice touch at...
- Tags: environmentalism, poverty, global warming, pollution, Permian, extinction
- Discussion threads 2005-01-20
- Iceland buses come clean with hydrogen
- Iceland buses come clean with hydrogenNow this is an example ofan earlier comment I made about Europe producing some awesome technologies. Now granted Iceland is not technically Europe, the cities that are participating in the experiement are. And where is the US? Oh yes that's right, falling behind the rest...
- Tags: poverty, environmentalism, global warming, Bottom line is fossil fuel, pollution, U.S. Government, Kyoto Protocol, Iceland, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2005-01-12
- Human Capital and Elimination of Rural poverty: A Case Study of the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
- This case study represents a rural region with an adverse land-man ratio and low human development. The 1999/2000 survey was designed as a re-survey of households that were investigated in 1996/97, so that the dynamics of poverty can be examined. From descriptive analysis based on the 1999/2000 survey, it is...
- Tags: Poverty, Human Capital, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing
- Case studies
- "Operationalising Pro- Poor Growth": A Country Case Study on Brazil
- This study examines whether economic growth has been pro-poor in Brazil. In order to do that, the study describes several indicators of the Brazilian economy, examines the variables associated with poverty levels and changes, calculates the growth-elasticity of poverty, examines the determinants of pro-poor growth in a panel of Brazilian...
- Tags: Growth, Poverty
- Case studies
- Empowering Pakistani Women Through Sustainable Livelihoods: DFID and the Kashf Foundation
- The word 'Kashf' means 'miracle' in Urdu, and the Kashf Foundation addresses the need to improve the economic and social status of women in the rural/peri-urban areas around Lahore in Punjab Province. Although the Government of Pakistan GoP, has emphasised the importance of micro-finance and empowerment in the fight against...
- Tags: Women, Poverty, Empowerment, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Case Researchers Use SAS to Understand poverty Better and Help Policy Makers, Not-for-Profits Battle Its Effects
- The researchers at Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Sciences Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change have a critical mission: understanding the root causes of poverty in northeastern Ohio. The group draws on statistics to unearth links and explain issues to policy makers and to not-for-profit groups...
- Tags: Researcher, Poverty, SAS Institute
- Case studies
- Sedesol: Social Development Supported by Innovation
- Overcoming poverty in Mexico is a national priority. During the year 2000, 51 percent of the population was confronted with some level of poverty. In order to meet this challenge, the Department of Social Development (Sedesol, from its Spanish acronym) developed the Social Information System SIS, which would help identify...
- Tags: Innovation, Poverty, SAS Institute, Y2K
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Telecom transforms downtown Los Angeles
- As noted last week, I'm in the midst of scrambling to complete work before I head across the Atlantic to London, and soon thereafter, Africa. That means I am having to do a few things I don't do in the normal course of a programming day. ...
- Tags: Network Solutions Inc., Telecommunications, Sales Strategy, Servers, Sales, Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, Nick
- Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, NickCome over to The Dark SideOLPC is to help break the chain of poverty, and pathetic decisions that so many billions of people have been making over the last CENTURY.Microsoft is all about selling Operating Systems (which never work well ... )which...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP, Sugar
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- OLPC ready to scrap Linux??
- The Inquirer says so. OLPC, the educational project which purportedly aims to provide small, cheap laptops for kids has, since its inception, been running its home-made Sugar application, run on Linux, but on Tuesday, OLPC chairman and founder, Nicholas Negroponte, told AP that this was...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, One Laptop Per Child Project, Inquirer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- News to know: IBM; Microsoft; Googlehoo; Safari; Enterprise 2.0
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Is Hyper-V ready for the Windows desktop? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art. Gallery right. Better the Windows Vista devil you know than the Windows 7...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media
- Over the last few months I've been listening with growing alarm at the claims made for enterprise 2.0 and social media. Or rather the lack of claims coupled to an incredible amount of posturing. What concerns me greatly is that in the mad rush to all things X2.0, we seem...
- Tags: DNA, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, CXO, Social Networking, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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