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Monthly Archives: September 2009

How companies are benefiting from web 2.0

A free report (registration required) on how companies are benefiting from web 2.0: We found that successful companies not only tightly integrate Web 2.0 technologies with the work flows of their employees but also create a “networked company,” linking themselves with customers and suppliers through the use of Web 2.0 tools. Despite the current recession, [...]

The Doomed Global Campus

(Some) Universities are trying to unlock the online education model. Many fail. Global Campus is the most recent. The problem in this instance is not with the online environment, but with the model of implementation. Faculty – who as I understand it are often required in formal education – were marginalized as the university sought [...]

More aggregation fun

I am, once again, on a visualization kick. Something has to give in our ability to manage information. We have limits to our cognitive capacity. As a result, we will have to look for new methods to make sense of abundance. Webtrendmap uses the following model: The model emphasizes the role of curators (slightly related: [...]

Putting it together again

The web has been quite effective at breaking down content elements from coherent frameworks to fragmented pieces. This causes confusion and frustration for many (learners in particular can be overwhelmed when trying to form a coherent narrative of a complex subject without the guide of a book or course). Breaking things down into smaller pieces [...]

3D video conferencing

The quality (authenticity?) of video conferencing has improved significantly over the last several years. I deliver video conference presentations to conferences or organizations fairly regularly. University of Manitoba, point of origin for most of my video conferencing, uses Tandberg. The experience is…ok. It’s tough presenting to a conference when you, as the presenter, lack visual [...]

Getting started with visualization

Data visualization serves a grunt cognition role: patterns and connections are revealed in an image that might take hours (or days) to discover otherwise. For example – a tag cloud is a quick snapshot of popularity of certain topics in a paper (when posted in a site like Many Eyes) or on a website. Or [...]

Paying for content?

I guess it’s a natural progression: newspapers ignore the online environment, then realize it’s important and try to charge for content online, then realize people don’t want to pay, then newspapers offer content for free, then they realize they aren’t profitable, then they decide to charge again. This progress is natural because newspapers are attempting [...]

Online Learning as a Strategic Asset

The use of online and blended learning in traditional courses and training programs is fairly diverse. In some instances, faculty members or trainers simply decide they want to try podcasting or blogs or video in their courses. These bubbles of innovation exist on almost any campus or organization. In other instances – more rare and [...]