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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Looking forward, we can imagine a world where content is matched to the learner because we’ll be able to tailor education to the individual and how they best learn. Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare'

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Serendipity and Twitter

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The next day, I'm getting a full-on tour of the BBC newsrooms, a preview of the new BBC News website design, an in-depth demo of the content management system including how to move approved stories around in response to user interest, a graphical overlay on these pages showing top links being clicks, and so on. Opening doors to speaking gigs.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content that I cover in the screencast, btw, is a quick peek at two Facebook apps. Update about embedding from Laura Whitehead : Jing saves as an SWF, which is easily embedable using something called the SWF object. Get the bit of code you need here What is SWF? Yet to be created).

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content. I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB. In the end, I decided to produce as a SWF at 640x480 size with second to highest audio/video quality.