Community Management & Marketing Council- February 18, 2007 Whether you are actively leveraging communities to support various business processes, providing solutions to community managers, or just thinking about ways to leverage communities as part of your business youve come to the right place.http://www.cmmcouncil.org/ Successful Saturdays: Keeping in good with the press- February 18, 2007 In some communities, you can ask the question, when was the last time you visited your public library. The reply can sometimes be, "There is a public library in town" I remember when I first interviewed for a job at my library, I didn't know where the puhttp://gathernodust.blogspot.com/2007/02/successful-saturdays-keeping-in-good.html Man Fired for Adult Website Surfing Sues IBM- February 18, 2007 A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissalhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2007/02/man-fired-for-adult-website-surfing.html VA Stops Some Research Activities After Data Breach- February 18, 2007 Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson has stopped activities at seven specialized research centers across the country after an unprotected computer hard drive disappeared from one of the facilities in Alabamahttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2007/02/va-stops-some-research-activities-after.html Worldcat Identities- February 18, 2007 One more small step in this direction was released by the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) last week. It's a prototype of an author identity system that shows holdings of books by any author in all of the libraries tracked by OCLC in its worldcat syshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/92589030/worldcat_identi.html Note to Steve Jobs: unions are only half of schools problems- February 18, 2007 If you want better schools, pay teachers $80,000 a year or more, AND give the staff power to get rid of bad apples (bad pun, given the cause of todays post, I know) and youll see school quality turn around in an instant.http://scobleizer.com/2007/02/18/note-to-steve-jobs-unions-are-only-half-of-schools-proble... Adobe enters feed reader race- February 18, 2007 In a rare public statement about a subject other than iPods or Macs, Steve Jobs said that "unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy," and that technology in the classroom isn't going to improvehttp://scobleizer.com/2007/02/18/adobe-enters-feed-reader-race/ Steve Jobs blasts teacher unions and textbook industry (Dan FarberBetween the Lines)- February 18, 2007 In a rare public statement about a subject other than iPods or Macs, Steve Jobs said that "unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy," and that technology in the classroom isn't going to improvehttp://www.techmeme.com/070218/p16#a070218p16 Me, Me, and Him- February 18, 2007 American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-henri Levy, a review from Times Literary Supplement by Henri Astier.http://www.powells.com/partner/18/review/2007_02_18.html |