Introduction to our leveraging expertise project ( presentation format) 2. Thanks to the generous support of the National Defense University in Washington DC and some hard work by Neil Olonoff, Gretchen Schlag, Jeff Alexander, Janet Scheitle, Janice Herd and others, we’ll be offering a free workshop on “Managing and Leveraging Expertise” on November 10, from 8am to 2pm
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Blog>> Expertise Workshop in Washington DC on November 10th
The conference has a diverse attendee list and I was very much looking forward to my keynote presentation : Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning. Unfortunately, some very sad news in my family as my wife’s father, a man beloved by everyone who met him, passed away on Thursday.
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Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning – The Keynote That Wasn’t
Webmaster Level: All In May this year we announced Rich Snippets which makes it possible to show structured data from your pages on Google’s search results. We’re convinced that structured data makes the web better, and we’ve worked hard to expand Rich Snippets to more search results and collect your feedback along the way.
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Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets
His presentation contains some really great insights into how visuals are useful and how to get yourself thinking visually. His breakdowns (the 4 M’s and 6 steps of getting visuals) are a great summary of the process of creating effective visuals, and he concludes the presentation with a couple of his own examples of process based on some visuals he’s created. If you’re reading this in a Feed Reader you may need to click through David Armano of the Dachis Group , just posted his slide deck from a talk he gave last week at Blogworld 2009 titled “The Value of Visual Thinking in Social Business”
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The Value of Visual Thinking
Blogs that Generals as well as soldiers have been writing • The It’s a question I’m asked a lot and one I tried to address in my presentation at the Army KM Conference and reiterate in this blog post. This is a efficient way to find informative articles, useful websites, interesting blogs , and pictures, based on the recommendation of others. I recently spoke at the 2009 Army Knowledge Management Conference .
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Do We Really Need So Many Kinds of Social Media?
Next week, Alice Wang and I will be presenting our research and consulting findings on the intersect social media and social networking has with identity and security for Burton Group clients. If you are a Burton Group client, I believe you will find this presentation very informative.
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Telebriefing: Leveraging Relationships and Managing Identity Two Sides of the Social Networking Coin
Letting customers write reviews on your web 2.0 e-commerce site increases the likelihood others will purchase th e product as well. Provided that the reviews are moderated, quality reviews also increase a website’s search engine rankings because customers are providing content for the website. The higher likelihood to purchase comes in where customers receive unbiased opinions on the product they’re thinking about getting and shows that other people are using the item, not to mention that your site is also busy and active
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Having Product Reviews on E-commerce Websites
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out and has a slick new UI. Also, this Beta has most of the features that would ship with the final version compared to the earlier Beta. Note that while new features might be added, there are chances that some of the features demonstrated here may also not be a part of the final release. But, for now, lets examine the current Beta 2. The first thing you would notice and probably like, is the UI enhancements. Herebelow, is the launch screen. Also, the start page has been modified to accommodate more useful things. The good thing is that you can completely customize the Start Page since it is a XAML based UI. You can find the start page itself as a Project at C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7IDEStartPages once you install the Beta. You can change it to reflect your organization specific templates, document repositories etc., Optionally you can even turn it off permanently, or, upon opening a project, using the checkbox options in the bottom left
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – a first look at the UI and Web Development
ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, has announced that its 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s Celerity Fibre Channel Host Adapters and 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s ExpressSAS SAS/SATA Host Adapters have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This status designates that Celerity and ExpressSAS host adapters have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and are now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List. Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that Celerity Fibre Channel host adapters and ExpressSAS SAS/SATA host adapters make best use of VMware technology and are ready for deployment in customer environments
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ATTO Technology Products Achieve VMware Ready™ Status
Telestream, a leading provider of digital video workflow solutions, has announced the first solution which offers YouTube fingerprinting for both live and file-based workflows. Digital fingerprinting is a process that uniquely identifies video, making it easier for media companies to discover and track their video content which is uploaded to YouTube
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Telestream Offers First Fully Integrated Solution for YouTube Fingerprinting
Media 100, a leading provider of advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, postproduction, and new media industries, has announced that Media 100 Suite Version 1.1 is now available. Media 100 Suite v1.1 adds support for Blackmagic Design’s Intensity Pro, DeckLink SDI, DeckLink Studio, and DeckLink HD Extreme video cards. Released in August 2009, Media 100 Suite brings blazingly-fast, high-quality editing and compositing to Mac OS X
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Media 100 Announces Support for Blackmagic Design Video I/O Cards
Webmaster level: Intermediate/Advanced Webmasters who check their incoming links in Webmaster Tools often ask us what they can do when they see low-quality links. Understandably, many site owners are trying to build a good reputation for their sites, and some believe that having poor-quality incoming links can be perceived as “being part of a bad neighbourhood,” which over time might harm their site’s ranking. If your site receives links that look similarly dodgy, don’t be alarmed…
Here is a blog post she wrote about the effort, More than enthusiasm for web 2.0. She adds that accountants are trained to deal with varying qualities of data and how to present them to senior management. To that end she requests comments about the report on her blog
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An Accountant’s Advice in Making the Business Case for Enterprise 2.0
We perform a variety of legally oriented services her at VR Legal Resources ; everything from scanning and Bates Stamping exhibits to preparing and presenting exhibits and demonstratives in court, and, from time to time, we’re called upon to videotape a deposition. We’re fortunate to have professional relationships with many of the top law firms in the Los Angeles / Orange County area and a few of these firms handle some of the more popular cases you hear about on television or read about on celebrity web sites. Being “ringside” during these sometimes intense encounters and watching the verbal jousting that takes place is what keeps me passionate about my career in litigation services, that, and the fact that I’m entrusted with “behind the scenes” information that ethics dictate that I keep confidential
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Is That My Video Deposition on YouTube? Best Practices for Law Firms
So you’ve built a great new social networking website or forum, how do you make it popular? According to six degrees of separation , we all know each other through a friend of a friend, up to a maximum of six friends. How many times have we all run into or heard about someone and thought, “small world”?
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Tool to Help Get People to Sign Up On Your Website
The Webmaster Tools team is lucky to have passionate users who provide us with a great set of feature ideas. Going forward, we’ll be launching some features under the “Labs” label so we can quickly transition from concept to production, and hear your feedback ASAP . With Labs releases, you have the opportunity to play with features and have your feedback heard much earlier in the development lifecycle.
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Fetch as Googlebot and Malware details — now in Webmaster Tools Labs!
TBH Creative was hired to redesign the home page of Saint Anthony Medical Center in Crown Point, Indiana . The home page original arrangement needed a better arrangement to display more information including news, health related tools, keywords, and buttons to other important areas of the web site. We created a new layout that allowed more flexibility, offer a lot of important information, and would help users find what they needed quickly
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Home Page Redesign for Saint Anthony Medical Center in Crown Point Indiana
8220;Is this a conference about blogging , or have I been transported to a comedy club on ‘Best of Improv Night’?” captured them during his presentation while I was live tweeting. With these statements, Brogan echoed some of what Liz Strauss had said earlier in the afternoon — the idea of “inclusiveness” and how that really powers and drives participation on blogs and in social media. “Be self-aware Watching Chris Brogan of New Marketing Labs on stage for the first time at Izeafest 2009 made me pause.
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This Social Media Stuff Makes Real Things Happen
fass/events/digital-literacies/index.htm The seminar on the 12th has the theme The nature of virtuality and I will be presenting on: Adventures in Second Life: a personal history . They have a blog at: http://literacyinthedigitaluniversity.blogspot.com/ The main blogger is Robin Goodfellow, Senior Lecturer in New Technology in Teaching in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. There are two research seminar series to do with literacies starting this month, both funded by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).
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Seminar series on literacies
communicate and support to facilitators in the Facilitators CoP, but I need a good real-time focused presentation and conversation to make this stick. What tipped me over to blog these thoughts? As a global facilitator I subscribe to all blogs and forums in all CoPs, and I stress that this is important for facilitators to do in their CoPs
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Online communities – technical facilitators are not enough