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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

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We apparently find voicemail even more excruciating: Studies show that more than a fifth of all voice messages are never listened to.) Instant messaging lets us detect whether our friends are busy without our bugging them, and texting lets us ping one another asynchronously. The bold emphasis is mine.

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Going from Free to Fee Part 2

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In a way Twitter is like instant messaging. Instant messaging has stuck around through the ages as a free service but most of those services are supported by bigger businesses making money in other ways (MSN, AOL, Yahoo…) Maybe Google should/could buy out Twitter. :) And then again, sometimes businesses simply fail.

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biznet on Podcamp: How to Do a Skype Interview

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Shauna also was able to instant message me a list of questions so I could see the text. After the interview, I was able to message her all of the correct spellings and links to the people we discussed; made it easier for her to do a good job and for me to get excellent coverage!

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Your say: Personal knowledge management - Inside Knowledge

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Case study archive. m also a fan of instant messaging in knowledge work and project settings.? Case study archive. Copyright ©1994-2005 Ark Group Ltd All rights reserved. Competitive Intelligence. Communities of Practice. E-learning. Enterprise Content Management. Enterprise Search. Intranets & portals.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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Still, the difficulties of sustaining large-scale collaboratories were unexpected to many scientists and funders, partially because modern studies of science have repeatedly emphasized the social nature of scientific communities. 2003; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005). The Science of Collaboratories Project.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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Resources include not only static text and media but also dynamic services and their artefacts, such as instant messaging, online forum and weblog conversations. Unless students manually copy materials out of the VLE walled garden , all traces of their learning experience through the VLE are lost once they complete their studies.

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