It’s civic election time here in central Alberta and the Red Deer Public Library is hosting a web site and blog site for the candidates. You can find it here at http://www.electionforum.ca/. There is some blogging going on – mostly Q&A and some videos but the most interesting element is the controversy over anonymous comments […]
Read more "Anonymous Comments"Are you familiar with the Field of Dreams syndrome – ‘build it and they will come’? In their early stages, many technology initiatives have this as their mantra. Professional and serious IT managers question this approach and usually do their best to get things on the right track through such things as cost benefit analysis. […]
Read more "Ignore It and It Will Go Away(?)"Here’s some good news for folks in the academic world who are interested in podcasting events such as lectures but stop when they see the complexity of the capture and the costs of deployment to multilple locations. Chris Dawson and his company BoxPopuli have announced a suite of products – hardware and software and web […]
Read more "Podcast In A Box"con·ver·sa·tion[kon-ver-sey-shuhn] –noun 1. informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy. mar·ket·ing [mahr-ki-ting] – noun 1. the act of buying or selling in a market. 2. the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, […]
Read more "Conversational Marketing"Baby boomers are turning to their own social networking sites thanks to start-ups like multiply.com. According to this article from the NY Times, the same venture capitalists who poured funding into myspace, facebook and other teen oriented social networking sites are now supporting the startups catering to baby boomers and ‘grey’ internet users. Although teens and […]
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