Category: Social Creatures
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The Black Box has a name
While I haven’t done much toward the PhD idea in a while, I have been watching some of the movements by companies in the social media space. One of these moves showed up this week as Salesforce.com bought Radian6. The latter being the system that after looking into things a little more almost first my…
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Letters of the Revolution
I know, this is going to be an odd post to fall under change management, but if you think about it… what is going on in the Middle East and North Africa is really an interesting exercise in that… but odd thoughts aside. It occurred to me while chatting with my brother this morning that…
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Our Social Orbits
Over the weekend, it struck me once again that people really don’t pay attention to LinkedIn. Why? Because often people are on the service so that they can be seen, but they aren’t really doing anything there. The people who they connect to there are perhaps the equivalent of “single serving friends”. You need them…
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My 2011 Predictions
Well 2010 was certainly an eye opening ride for me, moving between institutions not of my own will and looking to a future that may or may not include academia. But for all that, it has provided me with yet another way of looking at technology and the way that it is used to educate…
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Social vs Religious Observation (Cross Posted from boora.ca)
This afternoon, CBC Edmonton played a story about a Muslim family from Egypt who are going to be celebrating their first Christmas here in Edmonton. One segment of the story explores what other people think about the family celebrating Christmas, wondering if they are converts or aren’t “really Muslim”. The father mentions that what they are…