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Comentarios a: Chris Anderson with Will Hearst The Long Now Foundation. This is a series about long-term thinking, and what's been especially fun about it is to talk to speakers and get them engaged and they then realize that what they're doing actually has a long-term thinking aspect to it. Now it is the case here that one of our-- actually, our first sponsor Will Hearst is here and will join Chris on the stage, said You know, there's really a time dimension to this. And he'll tell you something of what he thinks about that tonight. So I called Chris, and said there was a time dimension, and he said, Yeah I know. And so we got into exploring it further, and so this talk, in anticipation in just a month or so, The Long Tail, which is coming out, is part of expanding what has turned out to be an extremely powerful idea.

One of those ideas that will probably be around for a couple decades, because of a change that the internet has wrought. Washington Monthly: The Rise of the Creative Class. Purchase Richard Florida's related book As I walked across the campus of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled with young people chatting and enjoying the spectacular weather. Several had identical blue T-shirts with "Trilogy@CMU" written across them---Trilogy being an Austin, Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting our top students.

I walked over to the table. "Are you guys here to recruit? " I asked. "No, absolutely not," they replied adamantly. "We're not recruiters. I noticed one member of the group sitting slouched over on the grass, dressed in a tank top. What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company. While I was interested in the change in corporate recruiting strategy, something even bigger struck me.

The Creative Secretary. Tweet First, Verify Later? How real-time information is changing the coverage of worldwide crisis events by Nicola Bruno. Maggio 5, 2011 alle 1:28 pm | Pubblicato su Il nuovo mondo | 11 commenti Here it is the research project I’ve worked on during my fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford Download PDF Summary by RISJ Nicola Bruno, an Italian journalist specialising in digital media and technology and its effect on journalism, has written a fascinating research paper on how mainstream media used social media in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010.

How is the Twitter effect changing the coverage of crisis events around the world? Nicola focuses his attention on the online coverage of the Haiti Earthquake in three mainstream online media outlets: bbc.com, Guardian.co.uk, and cnn.com. Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento... The 5 Models Of Content Curation. Curation has always been an underrated form of creation. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America – and started as a private art collection from one man (J. Paul Getty) who had a passion for art. Aside from a few well known examples like this one, however, the term curation has rarely been used outside of the world of art … until now. One of the hottest trends in social media right now is content curation – thanks in no small part to the leading efforts of several thought leaders actively promoting the idea.

Joe Pulizzi is a “content marketing evangelist” who speaks and writes often about content marketing publishes a list of the best content marketing blogs across the web. Steve Rosenbaum just published a book called Curation Nation looking at the rise of content curation in the business world – and a recent post on the Psychology Today blog even declared that “content curation is the new black.”

What Is Content Curation? Las 10 mejores webs para aprender inglés gratis. Me he permitido traducir al español (muy deprisa, la verdad…) este post de freenuts.com…a ver si nos animamos y le damos un empujoncito al inglés… Hay muchas maneras de aprender y mejorar el inglés, como pagar clases particulares, ir a una academia, hacer un curso online, etc etc. Y entre estos recursos, el más barato y eficiente es el de aprender gratis inglés online.

Sólo necesitas un ordenador con conexión a internet y visitar algunas webs muy majas para aprender inglés de forma autodidacta. Mola, ¿eh? 1. Elllo se centra en vuestra comprensión oral del inglés. 2. Fun Easy English está especializada principalmente en el conocimiento básico del inglés y en consejos para principiantes. 3. Go4English.com es una web del “British Council”, que es la institución británica encargada de las relaciones culturales a nivel internacional. 4. Lang-8 está especializada en la escritura en un idioma extranjero. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.