Nails on a Chalkboard: The Google Chat Notification Sound (6)
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There’s a scene in the movie “Dumb and Dumber” in which Jim Carrey asks, “Do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?” And then he screeches at the top of his lungs. If that movie was made today you could easily substitute Carrey’s screaming for the notification sound Google Chat makes. You are feverishly working on deadline, concentrating to craft the perfect sent- Dunk!… -ence, when that noise cuts through your ...
Clene - Presentations (1)
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All the CLENE presentations from ALA2008. Awesome.
Creating a Technology Petting Zoo (1)
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Upcoming library events at WebJunction (2)
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When: Thursday August 14th, 2008 - 01:00 PMWhere: WebJunction Join Maurice Coleman and Annette Gaskins as they show you how to create a learning-by-play environment for effective technology training. Access instructions for joining the webinar. Please register for this webinar and we will send you instructions for joining as well as a reminder 1 week prior to event.
A Payne in the Bush : Fundraising Scandal at the Bush Presidential Library (1)
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With no more campaigns to raise money for it seems that the Bush machine has set its sites on the Bush Presidential Library.In the spirit of Sacha Baron Cohen the Sunday Times of London arranged and recorded an interview between a leading GOP activist Stephen Payne and two men thought to be acting on behalf of the exiled former president of Kyrgyzstan.Payne, who also sits on the Homeland Security advisory board, is heard offering meetings ...
Xtreme Customer Service or TTWWADI must die. (1)
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The gap between Expectations and Reality is where emotions form and problems happen. Become a Customer Activist- An advocate for customers Passionate, fanatically, committed, progressive, protective about their cause Closes gap between expectations and reality you need a hat you need a creed Nordstrom customer service: The Tire (and possibly the best customer service story of all time. Interact with customers so that they want to come back Customer Radar- Look at the library through ...
Seven ways enterprise 2.0 differs from web 2.0 (1)
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Bill Ives has a post examining the differences the dynamic and cultural differences between enterprise 2.0 and web 2.0. He points to one of his previous posts and also Kevin Mullens’s blog post that makes the point of “solutions”: “Enterprise 2.0 is about the Business and is about providing solutions for Business. When I think of Enterprise 2.0 solutions now, I think of tools and solutions usually delivered via Web Services, with much more collaboration ...
It's a Matter of Trust (1)
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So much of the stupid stuff we do at work is because we don't really trust the people around us. We don't trust them to do the right thing. We don't trust that they are essentially good and competent or that they want to do good work for our organization. We especially don't trust that they will do the work. That's why we have dumb systems of control in place, like measuring people's "work ethic" ...
The Story of How One Passionate Guy Went from Being a Computer Geek to a Rock Star (3)
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Jonathan Coulton, once an average nerdy geek, pursued his passion and became the “Godfather of Geek Rock.” His story is a story of courage and is indeed an inspiring one. You can read it all here. After reading it, I quickly extracted what I thought are the most important lessons. 1. He refused to live a life of fear and mediocrity: Jonathan could have stayed all day in the office just like his other colleagues ...
Gmail Tries to Be Less Creepy, Fails (61)
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Gmail, Google's powerful web based email service, announced some changes to its contact management features today. Contact management has for some time been a contentious matter among Google Account holders - the company does strange and mysterious things with your email contacts, including tying them in to some other applications without anyone's permission. Today's new changes failed to alleviate those concerns, perhaps making the situation even less clear than it was before. There Are Your ...
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jtuchscherer said:
rising awareness to who can read you your shared items
Is This The Future Of Search? (158)
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The video above shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. Earlier today we showed a screen shot of the interface and a video of the search history, recorded by Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango. This new video, however, shows the full Google search experience with a very Digg-like interface. Users vote search results up or down - a down vote makes it dissapear with a ...
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kliger said:
the mahalo killer because it is a much more intelligent and flexible implementation of human intervention in the search process
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Icefreez said:
I wouldn't mind comments on several billion websites to help me to find better sites :)
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Kells Nollenberger said:
This looks really cool.
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Jeff A Coon said:
Pretty amazing changes in the works for Google Search, combining aspects of Digg with Search. Nice short video to check this out.
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Chris said:
Wow! I really like this. Hope it becomes active for everyone soon.
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Emon said:
Very cool!
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Haidong said:
There are some secret projects in Google, maybe this is one of those. I know they have a whole bunch of ideas for the next generation of google. By the way, I've seen this "tatango" CTO for several times. This is pretty good marketing and SEO strategy.
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Richard said:
reminds me a little of friendfeed
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Tekla said:
Diggle? Goog? What's up with that?
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Alisher said:
Круто. Еще бы френдование добавили. С опцией смотреть комментарии моих друзей - эта штука была бы просто идеальна!
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Coxymoney said:
Wow...
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Garrett said:
interesting video of where google search is going.
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jaehyun said:
난 괜찮은거 같애. 이런 개인화 검색결과 에디팅.
Top 10 Reasons a 360 Degree Feedback Program Fails (1)
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Common pitfalls to avoid when conducting a 360 degree feedback program
Templates bring Docs to life (82)
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What do wedding planners, gas mileage calculators and photo albums have in common? They're all examples of templates available in the Google Docs Template Gallery that Sarah Beth Eisinger (Docs Templates engineer), Grant Dasher (intern), and I built and (happily!) released today.When researching how people use templates, we saw that lots of you create documents for all aspects of your lives. You need resumes and cover letters to look for jobs and fax cover letters ...
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px said:
neat, now when can we start making our own to use?
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cmiper said:
Still can't create/save/import a document over 500k...all the pretty in the world won't fix that.
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pilgrimjohn said:
Yes!
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Sean said:
Wow! This is really nice. A good number of these templates are immediately useful.
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Shane Conder said:
This is pretty nice. But will individuals be able to create and share templates?
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Emon said:
this is sweet.
Five Ways to Make a Point (2)
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Dave Pollard discusses rhetoric and refers to the book, The Back of a Napkin. He gives five ways to improve presentations, pertinent for anyone trying to explain something: 1. Present new information, clearly and articulately. 2. Ask provocative questions. 3. Tell memorable stories. 4. Use visualizations to convey meaning. 5. Employ powerful rhetoric -- be clear, logical, clever, funny, well-paced, original, truthful, concise, provocative, and passionate. -HJ Dave Pollard, How to save the world, July ...
A New Poet Laureate (1)
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California poet Kay Ryan has been chosen to succeed Charles Simic as the nation's seventeenth poet laureate; she will be officially named to the post on Thursday. Considered something of an outsider, Ryan, 62 said, "I came from sort of a self-contained people who didn’t believe in public exposure, and public investigation of the heart was rather repugnant to me. But in the end “I couldn’t resist,” she said. “It was in a strange way ...
You think professional development is tough? (1)
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My ALA experience was so packed with meetings this year that I only got to one session— Professional Development Around the World. This one was a high priority for me, combining my deep interest in how libraries operate around the world and my interest in lifelong learning for library staff. Through the admirable efforts of organizations like Read Global, Lubuto, and others, developing countries are tasting the fruits of what a library can do for ...
Immersed in consensual torment (1)
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When passionate learning professionals get immersed in anti-learning ecologies, they end up heartless and broken hearted. The system produces so much antagonism to learning, there is no way to remain passionate about their love of learning, caring for learners or responding to challenges that arise in each situation. Everyone is feeling tormented. It's not clear who is tormenting whom. Only that it's painful to care so much or to respond with compassion. V. Yonkers framed ...
Slow Learning for Fast Times (1)
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| View | Upload your own In a world that's rapidly evolving and changing, I think there's a tendency to want to make our learning match the pace of change. There's a focus on activity and rapid development that intuitively seems to make sense, but that in the end may not actually prepare us well for this new place. Nancy White has a great slideshow, Thinking About Slow Community (via Beth Kanter), that she blogs ...
