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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. Microsoft Office Mobile is preinstalled on Windows Phone 8 and is available for select models of iPhone and Android phones as well.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Even the business world is getting wise to the power of idiosyncrasy. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. Tags: children's museums design business models.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. How are Workshop locations selected?

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