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| | PORTALS AND KM AUGUST 11, 2011 Social Media Use Continues to Expand in US Higher Education A new study by Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Lescault, Social Media Adoption Soars as Higher-Ed Experiments and Reevaluates Its Use of New Communications Tools , provides some useful results. They began to look at this issue in 2007. The most study found the trends first reported in 2007 are still in place and even expanding. | LIBRARIAN OF FORTUNE AUGUST 11, 2011 Information wants to be free. or expensive I was reflecting today on Stewart Brand's famous quote, first said in 1985: Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine - too cheap to meter. That tension will not go away. Is it distilled? Is it easy to read, repurpose and share? | THE FASTFORWARD BLOG AUGUST 11, 2011 Is shutting down social networks the best response to unrest? In my most recent post I showed how the community and the police are on a rapid learning curve to use social media to help them cope with the rioters – who also use the same tools. The use of social media in the unrest looks like a game-changer. But any attempt to exert state control over social media looks likely to fail,” he told Reuters. | | | | | | | |
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INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011  UNESCO Media & Information Literacy: report 1
It was held at the Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. will do several separate blog posts about it. The day started with a presentation via video link from Mr Janis Karklins, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO. The picture above shows the video feed. MORE >> -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 Forrester on Designing Mobile Apps
Mobile collaboration is an increasingly important topic as two-thirds of the information workforce already work remotely, according to Forrester data. With the adoption of tablets such as the iPad and the proliferation of smart phones in the enterprise, that number figures to grow significantly. We are now living in a work everywhere world. MORE >> -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011  What are you solving?
It's a classic problem: build something interesting, and people will surely use it, right? People don't automatically know how to use the new widget or work in a new environment. Change leaders have to help people see and create the answers. John Tropea has one of his usually well-thought-out articles on The future of enterprise 2.0 is apps. MORE >> -
ANECDOTE | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 Story quote of the week
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INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011  UNESCO Media & Information Literacy: report 2
This continues my report from the meeting, held on 11th August in San Juan, Puerto Rico, about developing Media and Information Literacy indicators (organised by IFLA and UNESCO). Then there were two follow up meetings, for IL experts (the one I attended yesterday) and for ML experts. The programme for the event is here: [link] actualite/. MORE >>
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