<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 – …
<ed.note>One of the benefits of Lent is the setting aside of time to meditate on just how much we’ve|I’ve screwed up in the previous year. One of the blessings of Easter is the sense that a new, hopeful year awaits for more victory, less defeat. But victory needs a goal …
http://broadband.ideascale.com/a/rpxAuthentication.do Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson and their team at GoROWE.com have made it their mission to promote “results-only work environments”. They have a Linkedin GoROWE Group http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2715125 and a blog at their web page. I think it is asinine that as we build out global broadband, cloud computing and …
The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council has issued a Call for Papers for its 9th annual conference to be held from September 12 – 16, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. The 2010 FTTH Conference & Expo is the only gathering of its kind dedicated to the advancement and deployment …
S 1714 IS 111th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1714 To authorize grants for the creation, update, or adaption of open textbooks, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 24, 2009 Mr. DURBIN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee …
The Alliance for Distance Education in California (ADEC) is pleased to announce Summit XXI: Online Education — Collaborating to Succeed. The annual distance learning summit will be held in partnership with CUE 2010 this year. ADEC’s Summit reflects the theme of collaboration in today’s challenging times and the corresponding booming …
ICELW 2010 – June 9th-11th, 2010 Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY ICELW is an international conference focused specifically on e-learning in the workplace. With researchers and practitioners coming from around the globe–and from both university and business backgrounds–the ICELW community works to improve online learning so that it …
The Intelligent Information Processing conference series provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, university and industry to present their latest research findings in any aspects of intelligent information processing. This time, we especially encourage papers on knowledge discovery, intelligent Web, intelligent agents, machine learning, autonomic reasoning, intelligence science …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
<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 …
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, …
Computer World/Network World – Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina may be launching a run for the U.S. Senate. Fiorina, a Republican, “filed for a tax identification number Tuesday and registered a campaign committee named ‘Carly for California,’” allowing her to raise money for a 2010 Senate run, according to …
<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 …
<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/ …
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. …
<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 …
Dear AMIA member, Last year, the AMIA in collaboration with the CIS-WG conducted a successful mentorship program. We are writing today to let you know that the Mentorship program is open for registration for the 2009-2010 year. Last year we had a more than 100 Mentee-Mentor pairs sign up for …