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Another SaaS position – geo-locked
CTO Executive position – Enterprise Collaboration software – SaaS at Cisco Systems Location: San Jose (San Francisco Bay Area) URL: http://www.cisco.com Type: Full-time Experience: Executive Functions: Engineering Industries: Computer Hardware, Computer Networking, Computer Software Posted: September 14, 2010 by Mohamed Ali Compensation: DOE Employer Job ID: MA_CTO Job Description Email …
The first annual VIVO National Conference August 12 & 13, 2010
Call for Papers The national network of scientists will facilitate the discovery of researchers and collaborators across the country. Institutions will participate in the network by installing VIVO, or by providing semantic web-compliant data to the network. The VIVO National Conference, Enabling National Networking of Scientists, will bring together scientists, …
Survey: Digital Natives with a Cause?
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore (http://www.cis-india.org/). CIS, in collaboration with Hivos’ Knowledge Programme (http://www.hivos.net/), launched a project, Digital Natives with a Cause?(http://www.cis-india.org/research/dn/dnrep) in 2008. As younger generations growing up in emerging information societies learn to engage with their geo-political and socio-cultural environments, a form of technology-mediated …
Jeff Pulver: #140conf NYC: It’s All About Soul
I have been thinking about #140conf NYC since I left the stage of the 92nd Street Y the evening of April 21st. On many levels we had a pretty amazing event. Over 1,000 people shared the experience in person and more than 170 people shared the stage in 76 different …
Announcing the Taj Expansion of the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development
GLORIAD is built on a fiber-optic ring of networks around the northern hemisphere of the earth, providing scientists, educators and students with advanced networking tools that improve communications and data exchange, enabling active, daily collaboration on common problems. With GLORIAD, the scientific community can move unprecedented volumes of valuable data …
Online Presentations for VoiceCon Orlando 2010
available here.
Association 2.0
<ed.note>O.k., we all know that the real subhead is “And How Planners Can SURVIVE it” but it is interesting to see that the author omits the only real advantage conventions which don’t take place virtually still hold over their non-geo-locked equivalents.</ed.note> How Social Media Is Revolutionizing Community Building – …
National LambdaRail and Internet2 Communities Applaud FCC’s 1-Gigabit Per Second Broadband Goal for Community Anchor Institutions
Expansion of Existing Research and Education Networks Are Key to Accelerating FCC National Broadband Plan Vision Cypress, CA and Ann Arbor, MI, March 16, 2010 – The Internet2 and National LambdaRail (NLR) communities strongly commend the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for emphasizing the importance of providing advanced broadband to community …
St. Joseph Medical Center (Houston) and MedConcierge to Demonstrate Telemedicine Solutions at FTTH Council Conference
Top Houston Hospital Selects MedConcierge to Offer Telemedicine to Corporations and Master Planned Communities September 8, 2009 (Sarasota, FL & Houston, TX) – St. Joseph Medical Center, the largest, Level 3 trauma hospital in downtown Houston, has selected MedConcierge to provide its advanced telemedicine solution to leading communities and corporations. Both …
Governor Kaine Announces Results of Telework Day
From Telework Exchange Newsletter: Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced that Virginia teleworkers saved approximately $113,000, avoided driving 140,000 miles, and removed 75.89 tons of pollutants from the air through participation in Telework Day on August 3, 2009. “I commend the individuals and organizations that took the Telework Day …
FCC Workshops on Developing a National Broadband Plan on CSPAN
Throughout August and September, the FCC is holding a series of workshops to support the Commissioners as they draw up a national broadband plan. These sessions focused on broadband’s impact on the economy, especially in rural areas, and on skills training and job hunting. The Recovery Act calls for a …
GridKa School 2009 Attendees
Some GridKa School 2009 Abstracts available here. surname first name organisation institute / project Jurczyk Melchior Student HS Mannheim Castejón Francisco CIEMAT Fusion Nilsson Daniel Chalmers University of Technology Zurek Marian CERN ETICS Aktas Adil Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Physikalisches Institut Abad Rodriguez Andres CERN Knese Karsten SCC, KIT …
NFI Research Results RE: Social Networking – Business Leaders Are Not Confident
<ed.note>While legacy newspapers struggle to find a way to monetize their next incarnation (hint: it's aggregating and/or researching data which can be gained nowhere else than from their subscribing readership — imagine think tank-portal-citizen journalism-distributed computing a la SETI@home crunching results), Chuck Martin has been surveying business leaders finding unique …
Nashville Medical Trade Center and the Proposed Nashville Entrepreneur Center
Milt Capps reported on the Nashville Medical Trade Center and the proposed Nashville Entrepreneur Center here. Given today's technology I'd like to suggest that instead of building a PLACE it would be more strategic to offer a slate of SERVICES; specifically, those which would concentrate on the nexus of bioinformatics, …
Don’t Skate To The Puck, Skate To Where Jeff Pulver Is – RE: HD Voice
<ed.note>I've learned about a decade ago if you want to know where the world is going to be 5 years from now in terms of technology that affects the average citizen you watch Andy Abramson, Ken Rutkowski and Jeff Pulver. Jeff watches and creates all things telephony and he recently sent this …
On Telework Day in VA
<ed.note>Imagine what the Nashville workplace of 2009 would look like if we ACTUALLY VALUED INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION instead of just rhetorized about it at meetings we drive to. Of course, I should point out the Congress still requires its members to be physically present in order to vote vs. using …
Collaboration Tools I Have Loved
<ed.note>It occurs to me I need a post to record the tools I cite again and again. I hope to expand this over time.</ed.note> Today's entries sponsored by the letters "B", "C" and "W": Wave (Preview) http://wave.google.com/ Web Conferencing http://www.DimDim.com http://www.gotomeeting.com http://www.webex.com Wikis MediaWiki with PurpleNumbers Examples http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ (fedgov) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ …
5th International Digital Curation Conference “Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity” Call for Papers
We invite submission of full papers, posters, workshops and demos and welcome contributions and participation from individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data, especially those involved in the challenge of curating data for e-science and e-research. …
Post-graduate fellowship in Semantic Web technologies for Content Management Systems DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
<ed.note>The IRONY of a research position focusing on ip-based collaboration tools which does not allow remote work IS NOT LOST ON ME. If anyone hears of a position hosted at an institution existing in this century please let me know.</ed.note> Employment type: Full time Telecommute: Not allowed The Reasoning and …