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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. I suspect this is a phenomenon similar to Eskimos (actually Inuit and Yupik) having multiple names for snow. It’s a really big part of our world.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path. But that's only part of the story.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

For internal web managers, tagging also improves accessibility for people who are blind by adding text descriptors to images so that site visitors understand the content of those images. The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. Why would they want to do that?

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