10.4.08

Old tech skills again in demand

Mainframe computing jobs vacant as the Baby Boomers who set up systems begin retiring with few educated to fill the spots, by Wailin Wong, on ChicagoTribune.com >>>

31.3.08

Lingua, letteratura, filosofia: il compito di un nuovo umanesimo

oggi intervengo a questa iniziativa di orientamento universitario, presso l'Università Statale di Milano >>>

20.3.08

Advance personalized learning

one of the Grand Challenges for Engineering as determined by a committee of the National Academy of Engineering >>>

Learning Systems '08 PodCasts

by Elliott Masie >>>

15.3.08

Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter!

Jean Ravy (att. 1318 - 1345)
Gesù risorto incontra Maria Maddalena
Scultura in legno, Notre Dame De Paris, Parigi

14.3.08

Language Learning by iPod: An Emerging Model

by Hank Horkoff and Jonathan M. Kayes, on the Masie Center website >>>

Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says

a very interesting CISCO paper >>>

12.3.08

Content Optimization: Keyword Suggestion Tools

By P.J. Fusco, The ClickZ Network, Mar 12, 2008 >>>

7.3.08

The New Art of War

By Walter Pincus, on washingtonpost.com >>>

3.3.08

Starbucks Espresso Training

Seattle, February 25, 2008 - MEDIA ALERT: Starbucks Closes Between 5:30 and 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday to Perfect the Art of Espresso >>>

Seattle, February 26, 2008 - Starbucks Espresso Training Delivers on the Promise of the Best Customer Experience Historic Event Celebrates Company’s Commitment to its Coffee, its Partners and its Customers >>>

Howard Schultz Transformation Agenda Communication #8 >>>

"On Feb 26, 2008, Starbucks closed over 7,000 stores for a unique 3 hour company wide training effort. The following day, Elliott Masie visited the local Starbucks in Saratoga Springs, NY and did an in-depth interview with the store manager on the learning outcomes, processes and texture of this experiment." an 8 minutes video by Elliott Masie >>>

The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

the new issue is online >>>

28.2.08

501

by the way, the previous post was #500...

Experts - SEM.edu

Continuing SEM education for agency staff and in-house search marketers. How to build an SEM knowledge base and stay current on industry changes that matter -- and ignore those that don't, by Ron Jones >>>

22.2.08

VideoEgg AddFrames

Advertisers pay on an “engagement” basis – that is when a user rolls over the ad and the advertiser's full screen creative is displayed >>>

20.2.08

A political education for business

An interview with the head of the Council on Foreign Relations, on McKinsey Quarterly >>>

19.2.08

The Privacy Paradox

"Boasting that you keep personal data "private," it seems is not the way to win the search game.
That's the lesson search engine Ask.com learned when it introduced AskEraser, a feature that claimed to let users turn off tracking of their search history so they can remain anonymous as they roam the Web. But when AskEraser launched last December, it didn't create enough interest to cause even a blip in Ask.com's market share--it's still hovering around 3% of all U.S. searches, according to Hitwise, a Web traffic research firm. "
on Forbes >>>