Social media came from open source software is created by highly skilled people contributing their time to collaborative projects that are then given away (such as Linux, Ruby, Apache). For large efforts their are often people paid by companies to contribute to the open source software but many people contribute 20-30, and more hours a week for free to such efforts, why? Consider research results exploring human motivation and ideas on how to manage organization given the scientific research on motivation. Challenge, mastery and making a contribution”. MORE >>

Research Methods ‘Beyond Google’ When “Google” has become a synonym for “research,” how should faculty respond? Open Minds, Open Books, Open Source , Feb. The problem is near-universal for professors who discover, upon assigning research projects, that superficial searches on the Internet and facts gleaned from Wikipedia are the extent — or a significant portion — of far too many of their students’ investigations. ” “Research isn’t a Google search,” she said. MORE >>

I’m a big fan of open source and as a woman who mangles a line of code here and there, I’m constantly amazed when I see how few women there are working in the field. Instead it’s a celebration of some very cool women who work in open source right now and an invitation to you who might be thinking about working on an open source project, or making the choice to support open source projects and developers yourself. WOMEN & OPEN SOURCE: What’s In It For Me? That’s not really my style. MORE >>

One of my favorite things to do is research my family history. In fact, I even have mockups from before Facebook was popular on a way to take my previous Open Source project, Jeans (the original platform for this blog, in fact - click to see my very first post!), open source Technology social network Internet Archive Hewlett Packard Brewster Kahle social Facebook phil windley Family historyEven more interesting to me is the technology that can make finding and exploring your heritage even easier. to become a Family-oriented Social Network. MORE >>

10 pm Entrepreneurial resources Jump to Comments Customer development methodology Good product manager bad product manager Customer development process Minimum Viable Product Project rifle Research writing methodology Conducting market research Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Leave a Comment Filed under Entrepreneur , Entrepreneurship Tags: Entrepreneur , presentation , research , video Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Home About In the Media Twitter’s Retweet feature (beta) Criticising Social Media ? November 26, 2009.5:10 Theme: Pressrow MORE >>