1.10.08

i2010 - A European Information Society for growth and employment

i2010 is the EU policy framework for the information society and media. It promotes the positive contribution that information and communication technologies (ICT) can make to the economy, society and personal quality of life.
just published >>>

26.9.08

State of the Blogosphere / 2008

from technorati >>>

25.9.08

7 Things You Should Know About...

for those who don't know it, a very nice initiative by EDUCAUSE >>>

Using Twitter as an Education Tool

By Ron Jones, Search Engine Watch >>>

Google Receive 71 Percent of U.S. Searches in August 2008

from Hitwise >>>

19.9.08

Stanford Engineering Everywhere

an online portal offering ten courses from Stanford’s School of Engineering— including the three-course introductory sequence in Computer Science— free of charge >>>

18.9.08

NASA for schools

worth a visit >>>

17.9.08

Education & Information Technology Digital Library (EdITLib)

just in case you haven't yet bookmarked it >>>

terrorism & the internet

i've hosted a seminar by dr. Marc Sageman, author of Leaderless Jihad. Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century; the event has been organized in collaboration with the US Embassy in Bern.

16.9.08

Red-Ink doctoral Scool in Tesserete

just finished a great seminar:
Red-Ink website (with the seminar program) >>>
Red-Ink blog >>>
Pictures from the seminar (built using Animoto, a nice tool)




Government 2.0 and Beyond: Harnessing Collective Intelligence

September 19, 2008: Government 2.0 and Beyond: Harnessing Collective Intelligence” Attendees at this half-day event will explore the social implications and the impact of globalization of the web as a platform rather than an application. This paradigm shift,
referred to as “Web 2.0,” enables us to leverage customer self-service and data management to access the entire web

it is possible to participate online: >>>

Run by IRM. Since 1988, the Information Resources Management (IRM) College has served as the Federal Government’s primary education provider for information-driven initiatives, delivering customized educational experiences to current and future information leaders. Today, the IRM College is the largest component of National Defense University and is internationally recognized as the institution of choice to develop leaders for an interconnected, dynamic world. The faculty and staff are committed to building on past successes and to harnessing the power of information for the 21st Century through education, global partnerships, and collaboration. 

13.9.08

master in Intercultural Communication

i've just finished a one and half day module on ICT and intercultural communication. participants published an interesting blog >>>

11.9.08

Evaluating eLearning in Higher Education

Stockholm (SE), September 2008 – A report on evaluating eLearning in higher education titled ELearning: aspects and criteria for the evaluation of eLearning in higher education has been published by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (HSV).
(in pdf format) >>>

5.9.08

3.9.08

Google Chrome

just tried the new Google browser >>>

25.8.08

ponti per la pace !

la brochure del progetto (in pdf) >>>

22.8.08

Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise

McKinsey Global Survey Results >>>

11.8.08

International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning" - iJAC

the first issue is now available online, with an article by Chiara Succi & Lorenzo Cantoni,
A Map of eLearning Acceptance (MeLA) and a Corporate eLearning Readiness Index (CeLeRI), pp. 39-47 >>>

25.7.08

google starts Knol (of course, in beta version...)

A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic (see my first approximation to eLearning, and eTourism is coming soon) >>>

21.7.08

quite well performing for "eTourism"

today my blog ranks quite well on google for eTourism & e-Tourism (see image #1).
if HL is set to "it" it ranks #1 for eTourism on google.ch / google.de / google.co.uk and #2 on google.it (see images #2-5)









9.7.08

Anatomy of a Great Online Media Plan

By Harry Gold, The ClickZ Network >>>

7.7.08

2.7.08

battle lessons

an interesting article by Dan Baum on The New Yorker (January 17, 2005) >>>

27.6.08

TOC.tv

worth a visit >>>

22.6.08

Dottorato di Ricerca In Istituzioni, Amministrazioni e Politiche Regionali

è stato pubblicato il bando per l'a.a. 2008-09, con 6 posti (3 con borsa e tre senza). cfr. il documento pdf, a p. 28 >>>

17.6.08

ponti per la pace / bridges x peace

un progetto molto interessante in cui sono coinvolto / a very interesting project, in which i got involved >>>

13.6.08

myself and my flowers at home

on SmallWorlds >>>

un fascicolo da non perdere !

Cristianità, 345 (2008), tutto dedicato agli affreschi di Ambrogio Lorenzetti sul Buon Governo, con due miei testi:
Il «Buon Governo». Una lettura (pp. 16-18), e la recensione di Alois Riklin, La Summa Politica di Ambrogio Lorenzetti, trad. it., Betti Editrice e Armando Dadò editore, Siena e Locarno (Svizzera) 2000 >>>
e la riproduzione completa dei pannelli di una mostra di grande interesse >>>

Analyzing the Online Video Puzzle

By Todd Krieger, The ClickZ Network >>>

How Three Brands Got Smart About Social Media

By Anna Maria Virzi, The ClickZ Network >>>

working hard for eTourism...

visiting Prince Albert II, the new Silversea Ship in London >>>

11.6.08

7.6.08

Enigma Helvetia, il racconto

an application done by TEC-Lab >>>

21.5.08

MIT Visualizing Cultures

The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world. Units in development extend to early-modern and modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on >>>

17.5.08

pensare e comunicare è libro del mese...


dell'Ufficio Nazionale delle Comunicazioni Sociali della CEI - Conferenza Episcopale Italiana >>>

16.5.08

UNCTAD e-Tourism Initiative

to be studied >>>

web 2.0 travel tools

a blog worth a visit >>>

66% of American users believe that...

eTourism web sites provide better services than travel agents! >>>

palabea

As an international community, palabea connects people who share the same interests in learning languages and in discovering different cultures >>>

8.5.08

3rd International scil Congress, 22-23 May 2008

the SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning of the University of S. Gallen, 2008 Conference is coming! >>>

NBC News launches iCue

a Learning and Social Networking Site >>>

6.5.08

l'auto più bella sul web

una rilevazione di expertsystem (in pdf) >>>

2.5.08

Educazione mediale: linee di ricerca multidisciplinare

intervengo al 1° Congresso Nazionale della SIREM – Società Italiana di Ricerca sull’Educazione Mediale >>>

28.4.08

Il mondo digitale

domani intervengo a questa bella iniziativa della Scuola cantonale di commercio >>>

14.4.08

about the future

on the eNews, April 2008, by EFMD:
The future of work – How will the workplace look in 2018? >>>
The future of learning >>>

11.4.08

Bayes Swarm

worth a visit >>>

10.4.08

Engelbart's Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use

Doug Engelbart developed a 5-finger keyboard with keys like a piano, used by one hand...but it was very difficult to learn, by Richard Monson-Haefel, on web2.0 journal >>>

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 >>>

New Study Analyzes the Positive Effect of Online Reviews on E-Commerce

by PowerReviews >>>

11.2.08

Half Of UK Men Would Swap Sex For 50 Inch TV

28 January 2008. Comet, the leading electrical specialist, today reveals that size really does matter, with over 25 million Brits admitting they would give up sex for six months to get a 50” plasma TV >>>

How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free

By MARIA ASPAN, Published: February 11, 2008 on NYTimes >>>

8.2.08

7.2.08

Howcast

a place to watch fun, informative how-to videos >>>

6.2.08

MIT OpenCourseWare

On November 28, 2007, MIT celebrated the initial publication of the entire MIT curriculum on OpenCourseWare. The celebration was hosted by MIT president Susan Hockfield, and included a keynote address by Thomas Friedman, columnist for The New York Times. The event also included a panel discussion on the future of education and OpenCourseWare, as well as an announcement of a new MIT OpenCourseWare initiative >>>