outside.in

blog aggregator meeting physical space... >>>

Yahoo! going further in the serach engines' "pragmatic turn"

Yahoo! Launches New Ranking Model for Paid Search, by Richard Drawhorn >>>

sulla storia di "Shibboleth"

Shibboleth authentication in tecnologia: >>>
e nella sua origine biblica, dal Libro dei Giudici (cap. 12):

[1] Ora gli uomini di Efraim si radunarono, passarono il fiume verso Zafon e dissero a Iefte: "Perché sei andato a combattere contro gli Ammoniti e non ci hai chiamati con te? Noi bruceremo te e la tua casa".
[2] Iefte rispose loro: "Io e il mio popolo abbiamo avuto grandi lotte con gli Ammoniti; quando vi ho chiamati in aiuto, non siete venuti a liberarmi dalle loro mani.
[3] Vedendo che voi non venivate in mio aiuto, ho esposto al pericolo la vita, ho marciato contro gli Ammoniti e il Signore me li ha messi nelle mani. Perché dunque siete venuti oggi contro di me a muovermi guerra?".
[4] Iefte, radunati tutti gli uomini di Gàlaad, diede battaglia ad Efraim; gli uomini di Gàlaad sconfissero gli Efraimiti, perché questi dicevano: "Voi siete fuggiaschi di Efraim; Gàlaad sta in mezzo a Efraim e in mezzo a Manàsse".
[5] I Galaaditi intercettarono agli Efraimiti i guadi del Giordano; quando uno dei fuggiaschi di Efraim diceva: "Lasciatemi passare", gli uomini di Gàlaad gli chiedevano: "Sei un Efraimita?". Se quegli rispondeva: "No",
[6] i Galaaditi gli dicevano: "Ebbene, dì Scibbolet", e quegli diceva Sibbolet, non sapendo pronunciare bene. Allora lo afferravano e lo uccidevano presso i guadi del Giordano. In quella occasione perirono quarantaduemila uomini di Efraim.
[7] Iefte fu giudice d'Israele per sei anni. Poi Iefte, il Galaadita, morì e fu sepolto nella sua città in Gàlaad.

Digital Shops Exploiting General Agency Skill Gaps

THE WEB AND RELATED DIGITAL technologies are exposing major weaknesses in traditional agency skill sets, according to a study released yesterday by Forrester Research >>>

Il lessico del turismo digitale

piccola guida alle nuove tecnologie per il turismo, di Azzurra Pici >>>

OER Commons

is a teaching and learning network offering a broad selection of materials that are free and open to use >>>

Podvertising

a report by eMarketer.com >>>

EU: Participants wanted for user review of new web accessibility service

the EIAO (European Internet Accessibility Observatory) project team is now seeking the opinions of ministers, policy makers, strategists and web managers, developers, and others, on this new prototype version of the service and are therefore looking for test pilots who can have look at the Observatory and answer some questions.
This should take approximately 30 minutes. The survey is open from the 14th February until 5th March 2007 >>>

Burst: Two In Three Book Travel Online

TWO-THIRDS OF WEB USERS WHO plan to travel in the next three months will do their travel research and buy tickets or book hotels online, according to a new study by Burst Media >>>

A winning business plan for 'Second Life'

The winner of a business plan contest in Second Life is a company that's likely to help others come up with business plans for Second Life >>>

LISA Globalization Industry Primer

The new LISA Globalization Industry Primer, released in February 2007, is a completely revised version of LISA’s popular Localization Industry Primer. It provides readers with an overview of best practices in the globalization industry and the standards, companies, and technologies that make them possible. Whether you are new to globalization or experienced, the Primer will provide you with the big picture needed to understand this vital area of today’s global economy >>>

great podcasts about Lugano

my students of the master in International Tourism at the university of Lugano have done great podcasts: >>>
an example:

la copertina del nuovo libro

Lorenzo Cantoni, Luca Botturi, Chiara Succi & New MinE Lab
eLearning. Capire, progettare, comunicare
FrancoAngeli, Milano 2007 (disponibile da fine febbraio >>>)

Second Life

State of the Virtual World – Key Metrics, January 2007 >>>

a new book chapter

L. Botturi, C. Succi, L. Cantoni & A. Inversini, Sustainable eLearning quality: A lightweight method from experience, in N. Buzzetto-More (ed.), Advanced Principles of Effective eLearning, Informing Science Press, Santa Rosa (CA): 161-183 >>>

check out the new Time

a very interesting adv >>>

internet and videos

three releases by Online Media Daily:

• YouTube To Stream 'Gumby,' Other Classic TV Shows, by Gavin O'Malley, Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 6:00 AM ET >>>
• About.com Adds 500 Videos by Shankar Gupta, Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 6:00 AM ET >>>
• Brightcove Strikes Video Deals With Time, TV Guide by Mark Walsh, Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 6:00 AM ET >>>
  

a video on web 2.0

nice >>>

Disney sells 1.3m films on iTunes

an article on The Financial Times >>>

Map of Future Forces Affecting Education

by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and Institute for the Future 2006-2016 >>>

E-learning. Capire, progettare, comunicare

il nuovo libro è in arrivo... >>>

CEOs as Public Leaders

A Mckinsey Survey >>>

www.votatemi!

un'intervista alla Televisione della Svizzera Italiana sui siti web nella campagna elettorale in Ticino >>>

Priceline, Travelocity, Cingular Fined For Adware

by Wendy Davis, Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 6:00 AM ET
PRICELINE, TRAVELOCITY AND CINGULAR WIRELESS have agreed to pay fines ranging from $30,000 to $35,000 to settle allegations made by the New York State Attorney General's office stemming from the companies' use of adware >>>

digital.life

ITU Internet Report 2006 >>>

Social software and learning

a Report by the FutureLab >>>

EU document 'Education & Training 2010'

Main policy initiatives and outputs in education and training since the year 2000.
This document provides an overview of the main policy initiatives and outputs resulting from the work of the European Commission in the field of education and training since the Lisbon European Council in March 2000. These form part of the integrated policy framework ‘Education & Training 2010’ and includes Commission contributions to the Bologna intergovernmental process in the field of higher education >>>

Decipho.com

a new social search engine, to be tried >>>

Synchronous e-Learning

an eLearning Guild’s Handbook >>>

Edelman Report

A Corporate Guide to the Global Blogosphere. The new model of peer-to-peer communications >>>

Microsoft is currently testing a keyword analytics tool

code-named "Gatineau," to compete with Google's free analytics offering, Google Analytics, by MediaPost >>>

EU: Mapping the way to effective Europe-wide eGovernment by 2010

by IDABC-EU >>>

Search Engine Rankings

Search Engine Rankings in the U.S. for December, 2006 >>>

Benchmarking of existing national legal e-business practices

European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, Benchmarking of existing national legal e-business practices, from the point of view of enterprises (esignature, e-invoicing and e-contracts) >>>

Beyond E-Learning by Marc Rosenberg

a free 4 pages executive summary by e-LearningGuru (in pdf) >>>

The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

the new issue: Vol 7, No 3 (2006) is online >>>

Ten trends to watch ...

At the start of the year, McKinsey identified ten trends that would shape the business landscape over the coming decade. "Ten trends to watch in 2006" quickly became one of the site's most popular articles ever.
In the months that followed, McKinsey continued to track these trends and publish new articles exploring them >>>

Merry Christmas and a great 2007 !

LORENZETTI, Pietro
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1340
Wood, 33 x 24 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

EU: eGovernment in the European countries

by the eGovernment Observatory Editorial Team of European Dynamics for the IDABC eGovernment Observatory, some of them updated December 2006 >>>

pubblica amministrazione: c'è bisogno dei migliori!

intervista a L. Cantoni a cura di Eleonora Voltolina, dell’Istituto “Carlo De Martino”
per la formazione al giornalismo sui progetti ponte scuola-università >>>

turismo & nuovi media

INCHIESTA: turismo/nuovi media
Reti per il viaggiatore
I nuovi media per la comunicazione nel mondo del turismo appartengono a due ambiti ben definiti: da un lato quello della mobilità in tutte le sue declinazioni, dall’altro quello del web. Ma il ruolo dell’intermediario continuerà ad essere significativo. Intervista a Lorenzo Cantoni e Davide Bolchini, pubblicata su Ticino Management, dicembre 2006 >>>

Time person of the year: YOU

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eTourism

> the list of most visited Travel websites according to Alexa >>>
> a blog on Tourism in Lugano run as an exercise by my students of the Mater in International Tourism.

search engine optimization

webconfs.com >>>

fare comunicazione online

la copertina di Prometeo è dedicata al libro sui file di log >>>

The Virtual University: Models and messages

Lessons from case studies, by Susan D'Antoni, editor, UNESCO >>>

Fare comunicazione online. Analisi dell'attività di un sito internet attraverso i file di log

Lorenzo Cantoni & Luca Ceriani, Fare comunicazione online. Analisi dell'attività di un sito internet attraverso i file di log, ComunicazioneItaliana, Roma 2006: è ora disponibile! >>>

I.Re.F. su TelePA

Speciale, 2006/11/30 - 10:00
Formazione Pubblica, l’Iref celebra il 25mo anniversario >>>

a big debate around Alexa

Alexa vs Search traffic >>>

answers: Google leaves, Yahoo gets off

google leaving: >>>
yahoo getting off >>>

A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available

by SEOmoz.org >>>

Google AdWords Paid Search Advertising In Close 2006 US Senate Races

a research by Rimm-Kaufman Group LLC >>>

eLearning Papers

Nel 2002 è stato lanciata un'iniziativa della Commissione europea per sostenere l'educazione e la formazione attraverso ogni genere di strumento tecnologico e multimediale: l'apertura del portale elearningeuropa.info. Dal suo avvio, il portale ha favorito l'utilizzo di contenuti di alta qualità, nonché il dialogo e la cooperazione per promuovere l'uso di nuove tecnologie nel campo dell'educazione.

Da allora si sono susseguiti vari avvenimenti e sono emerse nuove esigenze e nuove sfide nei settori dell'educazione e della tecnologia. Dopo aver incoraggiato la discussione tra i professionisti dell'e-learning europei e realizzato un ricco archivio di contenuti e-learning, siamo ora impegnati a lanciare una pubblicazione digitale con il titolo di eLearning Papers, una piattaforma esclusiva che offre articoli, interviste e buone pratiche relativi all'e-learning >>>

sitemaps.org

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.
Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft >>>

European Commission civil service

a brand new website, to improve the image of civil servants >>>

EPROM, part of the Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship within the MIT Design Laboratory

2006 Statistics

• Worldwide, there are more than 2.4 billion cellphone users, with more than 1,000 new customers added every minute.
• 59 percent of these 2.4 billion people live in developing countries, making cellphones the first telecommunications technology in history to have more users there than in the developed world.
• Mobile phone shipments grew 19 percent to 810 million units in 2005 and are expected to rise by 15 percent to 930 million units in 2006
• Cellphone usage in Africa is growing almost twice as fast as any other region and jumped from 63 million users two years ago to 152 million today >>>
  

Brainpop

• BrainPOP is an educational program that provides curriculum-based content spanning six main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health and Technology.
• BrainPOP currently features more than 500 animated movies. Each movie is supported by activities such as a quiz, comic strip, experiment and other printable worksheets, all of which speak to kids in a language and voice that they can understand.
• BrainPOP's movie topics present more than 3.5 million subscribers with engaging, enlightening, and entertaining views of a given subject >>>
  

TED: l'esperienza del Campus Virtuale Svizzero

alcuni link di riferimento:
Campus Virtuale Svizzero >>>
Centro di Supporto dell'Università della Svizzera italiana e della Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana >>>
Mandato "Educational Management" >>>
swissuniversity.ch >>>

blogging in the enterprise

Quick Tips on Corporate Blogging >>>
CEOBlogsList >>>

la copertina del nuovo libro!

in uscita ai primi di dicembre: Lorenzo Cantoni & Luca Ceriani, Fare comunicazione online. Analisi dell'attività di un sito internet attraverso i file di log, ComunicazioneItaliana, Roma 2006.

Dell in 'Second Life'

Dell Gets a New Lease on a 'Second Life' >>>

Zune!

an article: Bill Gates: Looking to the future >>>
the Zune website >>>

internet access in EU

Half of European Union Population Uses the Web Regularly >>>

EFQUEL & EKMA

EFQUEL is organizing the Annual Members Meeting in co-operation with the European Knowledge Media Association, in concomitance with the Online Educa Berlin 2006:
Place: Hotel Palace Berlin, Germany
Date: 29th November 2006, 10.00 - 18.30
"Networks, Structures, Opportunities in European E-Learning Quality"
I will do a keynote presentation on eLearning in a context: trends and directions for evaluation and quality >>>

OT: member of a pit crew

With some colleagues learning from Pit Instruction & Training >>> during Learning 2006 >>>

alcune prossime attività

martedì-mercoledì 14 e 15 novembre 2006
Utrecht (Olanda)
partecipo, tra gli osservatori stranieri invitati, alle giornate di SURF, l'agenzia nazionale olandese di promozione dell'eLearning >>>

giovedì 16 novembre 2006
Lugano (Aula Magna Liceo di Lugano 2 - Via San Gottardo, 20.45)
Intervengo alla presentazione de Il rischio educativo di Luigi Giussani, insieme a Mario Mauro, vicepresidente del Parlamento Europeo, a Claude Ruey, Consigliere Nazionale e a Maurizio Balestra, presidente del Circolo Culturale di Lugano.

venerdì 24 novembre 2006
Genova, Sala Riviera – Fieracongressi, 10.00 – 11.00
L’efficacia dei modelli e-learning in contesti differenti
Lorenzo Cantoni – Università della Svizzera Italiana
L’esperienza del campus virtuale svizzero
Giuseppina Rita Mangione – Università di Firenze
Strategie e iniziative “top down” di successo nelle università europee
Valerio Eletti – ASFOR
Executive Master ondine: la misurazione dell’efficacia dell’e-learning nella certificazione ASFOR
Tommaso Leo – Università Politecnica delle Marche
E-learning e PA: punti di forza e di debolezza in un’esperienza nella regione Marche
(vedi programma in pdf: >>>)

Canada's TV guide joins move online from print

the announcement on the tvguide website itself: >>>
an article on the story: >>>

SLoodle

SLoodle is a project to integrate the VLE platform Moodle with the 3D world of Second Life. Imagine a Moodle course that, if you wanted, could turn into a proper 3D interactive classroom with all your Moodle resources available to your students in the virtual world >>>

Inaugurazione dell'anno formativo 2007 I.Re.F.

Assolutamente da non perdere! >>>

Online Health Search 2006

Eighty percent of American internet users, or some 113 million adults, have searched for information on at least one of seventeen health topics. Most internet users start at a general search engine when researching health and medical advice online. Just 15% of health seekers say they “always” check the source and date of the health information they find online, while another 10% say they do so “most of the time.” Fully three-quarters of health seekers say they check the source and date “only sometimes,” “hardly ever,” or “never,” which translates to about 85 million Americans gathering health advice online without consistently examining the quality indicators of the information they find. Most health seekers are pleased about what they find online, but some are frustrated or confused >>>

Google has acquired JotSpot

>>>

2 new Games in Education reports

see the silversprite blog >>>

by The Open University

OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world >>>

corporate blogging

Blogsurvey: about blog marketing, blogger relations and surveying the corporate blogging world (in pdf) >>>
Business Blogging Dominated By Technology Companies In The Fortune 500 >>>

SkillSoft Buys NETg from Thomson

SkillSoft Announces Agreement to Acquire NETg from The Thomson Corporation >>>

search engines

Google Custom Search Engine >>>

SlideShare

SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint and OpenOffice presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others' presentations, and comment on individual slides. It's a great way to share your ideas with others, or to learn from other people. And it's free >>>

Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are to:

• Create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula for all age groups in all languages
• Develop collaborative learning projects and communities around these materials

Learners and teachers are invited to join the Wikiversity community as editors of this wiki website where anyone can edit the pages. The community portal lists information about many aspects of Wikiversity >>>

.museum

the story of it: >>>

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

With Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you can:

• Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.
• Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text.
• Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more.
• View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.

Plus, since it's online, you can:

• Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address.
• Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
• Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
• Post your documents to your blog.

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Reuters on Second Life

Second Life News Center powered by Reuters >>>
Reuters opens virtual news bureau in 'Second Life' >>>

a discussion about eLearning

Learning Globally - Perspectives From Outside the United States
Alison Blair, Australian Catholic University
Lorenzo Cantoni, University of Lugano (Switzerland)

We are all living and learning in a "flatter" world in which learning must be delivered globally and with a broader base of content. Yet our individual styles, cultures, needs and audience preferences also come into play. Join us to discuss the views and experiences of some of our colleagues living and practicing outside the United States.
• What are the unique characteristics of learning and learning innovation in various regions of the world?
• What are the influences of early education techniques and governmental roles in learning/training or access to resources?
• How do organizations best create learning programs that "work" throughout the world?

@ Learning 2006, 7th November 2006, Orlando (FL)

tourism & internet

Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide >>>

Yotophoto

the first internet search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images >>>

about a strange story

Bush Bio Changes For Miserable Failure Query Due To White House Change >>>

connexions

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Its Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license >>>

interventi a due convegni/seminari

Human Capital, Adaptability and Employability: Are we developing the Right Skills for the European workforce?, Milan, 5 - 6 October 2006, organized by EIPA-CEFASS (program in DOC >>>).

E-LEARNING PER LA FORMAZIONE DEGLI INSEGNANTI MODELLI FORMATIVI A CONFRONTO, Palermo, 10 Ottobre 2006, organizzato dall'IRRE-Sicilia (programma in PDF >>>). This last seminar has been hosted in the wonderful location of Palazzo Steri (see picture).

resources on educational podcasting

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videogames and tourism

Passport to Rome (and other 5 cities) >>>

Changing Technology, Changing Learning

by Elliott Masie >>>

internet: search engines

google webmaster central >>>

EPSS in healthcare

VeinViewer >>>

eLearning: mobile learning

blogs devoted to mobile learning:
mLearning-World.com: >>>
Mobile Learning >>>

eLearning: open content

Yale to Make Select Courses Available on the Internet >>>

internet: logfile analysis soft

software that i use or tried myself (alphabetical order):
ClickTracks >>>
FastStats >>>
FunnelWeb (not supported any more) >>>
GeoBytes >>>
Web Log Storming >>>
Webtrends >>>

to complement analysis:
Alexa >>>
Seologs >>>

Formazione: Laurea Specialistica

il corso di laurea specialistica in Comunicazione e Formazione che dirigo all'Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano). Ci sono ancora posti disponibili >>>

eCollaboration: Adobe

Adobe Acrobat Connect >>>

internet: HSX

Hollywood Stock Exchange: buy shares of your favorite actors and their new movies. Watch their values rise or fall based on their success. Prices soar with a blockbuster opening at the box office and plummet with a bomb no one went to see >>>

internet: WOC

Techies hot on concept of 'wisdom of crowds,' but it has some pitfalls >>>

eLearning: new publication

Luca Botturi, Lorenzo Cantoni, Benedetto Lepori & Stefano Tardini, Fast Prototyping as a Communication Catalyst for E-Learning Design, in Mark Bullen & Diane Janes (eds.), Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues, Information Science Publishing, Ersey (PA) 2006, pp. 266-283 >>>