The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time.  “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. We combined that research with insights gained from more than 300 industry leaders that participated in our Real-Time Web Summit in October 2009. The end result is an extensive, authoritative premium report: The Real-Time Web and its Future, edited by ReadWriteWeb lead writer Marshall Kirkpatrick .”

The medical journal Pediatrics published a new study showing the effectiveness of using text messages to remind young patients to take their medication . Mobile Commons has worked with a number of organizations and state health departments, including New York and California, to test the efficacy of using text messaging to improve public health. It’s also important to note that the job isn’t finished There were 41 patients in the study who recently underwent a liver transplant. They showed “significant improvement” in medication compliance after

It’s a research project about crowd-based decision-making—one so well-executed and interesting that Jeff Howe can’t help but get excited. Click! It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. The research is now very understandably portrayed on the Click! There’s a value of this exhibition that extends beyond the exhibition itself. We’re accustomed to the notion that people are enfranchised in the democratic process.

An extra year of secondary school: 15 to 25 percent. (George Psacharopoulos and Harry Anthony Patrinos, “Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update,” Policy Research Working Paper 2881 [Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2002].) • Research in developing countries has shown a consistent relationship between better infant and child health and higher levels of schooling among mothers. (George T. Did you know: " • An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent. Bicego and J.

the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. The Pew Research Center connects its public opinion survey data to web users through simple interactive quizzes. It's a simple example of how you can make your research mean something to the user. Compare that to New York City, which Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications Policy-oriented Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content.

An interesting article in today's New York Times called " Lost in E=Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast ." are banding together to fight information email overload - by doing research on information coping skills - one of my favorite topics for the past ten years. The article describes a new nonprofit organization called " Information Overload Research Group ." Photo by Will Lion quot; The article describes how some technology firms, including Microsoft , Intel , Google and I.B.M. ,

In this recent New York Times article, " If You Can't Let Go, Twitter " the writer talks about the difficulty of getting her three digital natives and early adopter users to switch from mobile phone texting to using Twitter and without success. These criticisms confounded me. Carl , an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University and researcher to find out what was underneath this. ???You want Last week, I did a workshop for a board of a secondary school interested in taking the first steps into social media. While I was there,

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. Several avatars were also in "real life"

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire.  instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required reading Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter . My job was the network weaver. 

...Tags: Last January , while I in the final days of fundraising for the Sharing Foundation as part of the America's Giving Challenge I received an email from Tom Watson asking me if I would come to New York and spend the day being interviewed for a book he was writing on raising money or taking action online using social networking tools.   0160; It is a very well written and researched look at  how these tools have been are being leveraged for social change in way that is new and will continue have major implications.   0160; I told him I was really focused on the fundraising goal and I agreed to answer some questions via email.