Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Online Games as eLearning Strategy

Anyone who has an account on Facebook knows about the games: FarmVille, Farm Town, Cafe World, MafiaWars, FishVille, YoVille, and so on. The opinions about the games are quite polarized, ranging from “I hate those stupid announcements. Ban the games.” to “I love those stupid announcements cause I get free prizes”. Of course, all interaction [...]

Share this link:
  • RSS
  • email
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • FriendFeed
  • Twitter
  • Google Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati
  • PDF
  • Print

Future of Publishing

Mark Coker of Smashwords got me thinking about the future of publishing. Many people have written about the end of the year, end of the decade, predictions for the future, but Mark’s prediction kindled a flame of thought. I try to hold on to these moments because my work schedule has become so crazy I [...]

Share this link:
  • RSS
  • email
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • FriendFeed
  • Twitter
  • Google Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati
  • PDF
  • Print

Information Brokers

Chris Brogan in his three hour talk at the Tools of Change 2009 Conference made several thought provoking statements. Aside from being a very funny guy Chris pointed out the obvious. It is so obvious that it escaped my attention. And if he had to remind everyone in the room of the same fact, it [...]

Share this link:
  • RSS
  • email
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • FriendFeed
  • Twitter
  • Google Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati
  • PDF
  • Print

Using Social Media as a Marketing Strategy

“Rising waters raise all ships” – using free Social Media outlets as a marketing strategy.

Share this link:
  • RSS
  • email
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • FriendFeed
  • Twitter
  • Google Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati
  • PDF
  • Print

Open Access and Print on Demand Model

At the beginning of 2009 I worked for a technical writing company. We, the staff, started a blog ostensibly to tell the world about technical writing. Each contributor added entries about topics that tickled their fancy. I stumbled on the Open Source philosophy in my search for inspiration. At that time I dipped my toe [...]

Share this link:
  • RSS
  • email
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • FriendFeed
  • Twitter
  • Google Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati
  • PDF
  • Print