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ANECDOTE MARCH 8, 2011 Using Concrete and Specific Examples One of the basic requirements for any form of successful communication is the listener understands what's being said. However we often face the challenge when trying to get our message understood of the " curse of knowledge ". Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has " cursed " us. | TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS MARCH 8, 2011 Notes on the future of distributed work and organizations I am sitting in the lounge at Sydney airport, about to fly to San Francisco. It is the ease of the iPad that allows me to put up this post on the fly. came straight to the airport from a media panel organized by Cisco to follow up on their Connected World research study. Below are the notes I managed to catch on my iPad as we spoke. | | PORTALS AND KM MARCH 8, 2011 World's Total Combined CPU Power Now Equals One Human Brain Here is an interesting fact. John Timmer writes that a pair of researchers, Martin Hilbert (USC) and Prisicilla Lopez (Open University of Catalonia) , have been looking at the growth of computer power and storage over the past twenty plus years. They found that GPUs account for the “lion's share of the 6.4 Congratulations. This is welcome news. | | | | | | | |
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VIZTHINK BLOG | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011  The Sketchbook Project: A Visual Concert Tour
When a person grabs a bound book of blank pages and begins to fill them, the resulting visual journals display fascinating stories, both deeply personal and oddly fulfilling. The unique storytelling device of multiple pages can allow the sketcher to expand, explore and reveal processes that the demands of producing a single image cannot afford. MORE >> -
 International women's day & Media and Information Literacy
Today is International Women's Day. UNESCO launched the 2011 edition of Women Make the News , "a global initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media. The theme for this year, Media and Information Literacy and Gender , aims to improve understanding about gender perspectives in the media and information systems." How are you doing this? MORE >> -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011  What is that thing?
What the heck is that? With apologies to Steve Martin). Friends and contacts ask me what I'm looking to do in my next career, and it isn't always clear what to call the role. What do you call a job that where people do things like: find ways to help people work together more effectively (collaboration). What do you call it? MORE >> -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011  How Social Is Your Team?
Broadly speaking, people like people. Perhaps that’s why the culture of collaboration has taken such a strong hold in many organizations since the dawning of the social web. What Is “Social&# ? And it’s a team that finds those engagements rich, satisfying and fun. Comfortable With Identifying Areas of Weakness. Involves Management. MORE >> - Teachmeet at Liverpool University
The University of Liverpool is hosting a Librarian TeachMeet on 26 May 2011, 10-13.00 (including lunch). This will be a really informal opportunity for librarians who teach to get together to share tips, experiences and good practice. If you come, be prepared to give a short (5 min at most) talk to share an aspect of your teaching. events MORE >>
- Signal and SXSW: What Should I Ask WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg? JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011
- Eureka Streams: Open-Source Enterprise Social Networking WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011
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