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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #119

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Meet the New Boss: Big Data - The Wall Street Journal. Take this Wall Street Journal piece on how companies are using data to make management decisions. For example: Ignore the resumé. Philip Roth and Wikipedia - Non-Commercial Use. "You may have heard recently about Philip Roth 's public fight with Wikipedia.

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The Ultimate Online Social Experience!

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I have personally been aggressively engaged in tracking the events in Mumbai through twitter, facebook, Wikipedia, flickr , various blogs and not forgetting good old Google. Having said that, this incident has shown us the way ahead on Citizen journalism and collaborative examples of online social media in the event of disasters.

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Kickstart Your Own Economy

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According to Wikipedia , the company has raised more than $75 million dollars for more than 10,000 projects since it got started. Kickstarter is a great example of The Long Tail at work. Something different. Kickstarter is a New York startup that was founded in April 2009. Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. ballpoint pen. business book.

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Grow Your Wiki

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citizen journalism. Showing the example of how to work agendas through a wiki vs. email! Stewart Mader compares organizational and public wikis (Wikipedia vs. enterprise wiki), offers several examples of organizations actively using wikis today, and outlines the main business drivers and use cases inside organizations.

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50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students | Educhoices.org

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The site looks almost exactly like Wikipedia, but there is a difference between the two: Scholarpedia can be cited in research papers. Some of the most valuable resources include electronic journals and books, articles, directories of researchers and a variety of databases. There are more than 20 offerings in all.

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What makes an effective knowledge worker? (Gurteen Knowledge)

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Books Amazon.com Books Wikipedia Collegiate Dictionary Collegiate Thesaurus Daypop Google Google Images Gurteen Hotbot HyperDictionary Translate to French Translate to German Translate to Italian Translate to Portuguese Translate to Spanish Yahoo. How does someone learn not to need praise for example and just how important an attribute is it?

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Information Literacy and Big6

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Blog : Begin your class journal on the blog created for you. Student example of a formative evaluation. Surviving Wikipedia". Example: Motion Blindness - Auto summarize in Word. Making Powerpoint Note Cards - Example (from Information Literacy Instruction and Fair Use). 163-167 and p.188 113 - 115 and p.

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