5.5.10

Travel and Auto Marketers Upped Search Spend in March

on ClickZ >>>

Church Communications: Identity & Dialogue

a very interesting Conference, where i presented a paper titled I new media e l'identità cristiana >>>

19.4.10

digital witnesses / testimoni digitali

Thirty thousand sites, more than half a million web pages, nearly 2,000 blogs. The Catholic religion has a strong presence on Italian websites: as evidenced by the survey conducted by researchers at the Institute for Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National Research Council in Pisa (IIT-CNR) who have sifted through the contents of .it domains on the web.
The search - published on the last issue of "Focus .it - Newsletter of .it Registry" is entirely dedicated to the Church-Web relationship (in pdf)

15.4.10

14.4.10

1.000.000 di soci Miles & More

un interessante gioco online della Lufthansa >>>

Convegno "Testimoni digitali", conferenza stampa di presentazione a Roma

domani (15.04.2010) intervengo alla conferenza stampa per presentare i risultati dell'indagine PICTURE – Priests’ ICT Use in their Religious Experience per quanto riguarda l'Italia.

12.4.10

Google using site speed in web search ranking

on the official Google webmaster Central Blog >>>
how it can affect the ranking of hotels' websites >>>

10.4.10

Mostra sul "Buon Governo" di Ambrogio Lorenzetti

venerdì 16 a Cassina de' Pecchi (Mi), presento una mostra tratta dagli affreschi di Ambrogio Lorenzetti sul Buon Governo.

4.4.10

Happy Easter! Buona Pasqua!

GIOTTO di Bondone
No. 37 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 21. Resurrection (Noli me tangere)
1304-06
Fresco, 200 x 185 cm, Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

23.3.10

The Times Introduces a Daily Video Report

The New York Times on Monday began producing a daily video on its Web site, summarizing the big news stories of the day.
The program, called TimesCast, lasting a few minutes, will appear on the nytimes.com home page at 1 p.m. each day; after 2 p.m., it will move to a less prominent position on the site. (It can always be found at nytimes.com/timescast.) It features interviews with editors and reporters who are covering the major stories, and scenes from meetings among the paper’s top editors discussing events that might go on the front page >>>

21.3.10

17.3.10

Facebook Reaches Top Ranking in US

on Hitwise: Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week >>>

Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit

on NYT >>>

4.3.10

Magazines and Their Web Sites

A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report (in pdf) >>>

3.3.10

The new landscape of the religion blogosphere

a new report by the Social Science Research Council >>>

1.3.10

The New News Landscape: Rise of the Internet

Understanding the Participatory News Consumer, by the PewResearchCenter >>>

25.2.10

Ci vuole l’educazione e ci vogliono maestri

intervengo a questa serie di incontri sull'educazione, vicino a Cantù (Co), domenica 7 marzo 2010.

21.2.10

intercultural online communication

with Aaron Marcus, founder and president of AM+A, Editor-In-Chief Emeritus of User Experience, the magazine of UPA, the Usability Professionals' Association (he held a seminar for NewMinE and webatelier.net labs, and today will hold a presentation for the red-ink doctoral school).
guess whose hat is that...

6.2.10

everything ready for ENTER2010 ! / tutto pronto per ENTER2010 !

here is the final program: 10-12 February 2010 (in pdf), waiting for you !
questo è il programma dello Swiss Day, in lingua italiana, giovedì 11 febbraio 2010 (in pdf), vi aspetto !

1.2.10

30.1.10

citations in EDMEDIA

a very interesting visualization of who's who in eLearning from the EDMEDIA Conference perspective (I'm ranked 17th among the most prolific authors...) >>>

Toyota crisis communication... (for me is also just crisis, owning an IQ...)

Toyota Italia (molto deludente): solo un testo in fondo alla home page: "Toyota informa.
In merito alla notizia riguardante possibili inconvenienti al pedale acceletarore di alcuni modelli Toyota, vi informiamo che per chiarimenti è possibile rivolgersi al numero verde 800-869682 del Servizio Clienti, dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 8.30 alle ore 19.00." E sabato e domenica?
Toyota Svizzera è mille volte meglio: non potevano copiare?

28.1.10

a new article

Alessandro Inversini, Lorenzo Cantoni & Dimitrios Buhalis, Destinations’ Information Competition and Web Reputation, «itt – Journal of information technology & tourism», 11 (2009), pp. 221-234

25.1.10

USA Congress Enacts Digital Promise

Congress has authorized a major new research center, the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, that will bring the same focused, sustained research funding to technology and learning that the federal government has funded for years in technology for health care at the National Institutes of Health and technology for energy at the Department of Energy >>>

21.1.10

just published !


Daniel Arasa, Lorenzo Cantoni & Lucio A. Ruiz (Eds.), Religious Internet Communication. Facts, Trends and Experiences in the Catholic Church, EDUSC, Rome 2010, pp. 252, eu. 20.00

18.1.10

11.1.10

Profili professionali nell’eLearning

Lorenzo Cantoni, Profili professionali nell’eLearning, «REM - Ricerche su Educazione e Media», 1/1 (2009), pp. 77-84

6.1.10

Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With New E-Reader Platform Blio

Amazon sold more books in digital media than on paper this Christmas >>>

31.12.09

Merry Christmas and a great 2010!


Fra' Angelico, Adoration of the Magi (1433-34), Tempera on wood, Museo Diocesano, Cortona

23.12.09

20.12.09

Google Lit Trips

A Different Way to Read Great Literature!

This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more! >>>

15.12.09

Cosa pensano i turisti? Lo scopri sul web

Lorenzo Cantoni, Christian Dedekind, Marco Faré, Elena Marchiori, Cosa pensano i turisti? Lo scopri sul web, Rivista del Turismo, 4|09: 38-43

14.12.09

Key Trends in the European Online Travel Market

on PhoCusWright >>>

The Internet and the Web


L. Cantoni & S. Tardini, The Internet and the Web, in D. Albertazzi & P. Cobley (eds), The media. An introduction, 3rd ed., Pearson, Harlow 2009, pp. 220-232.

8.12.09

Computer History Museum

the website >>>

Google real-time search

on Google blog >>>

World Travel Awards 2009

the winners are online >>>

30.11.09

ENTER2010 early birds registration discount

the early birds registration discount for ENTER2010 - eTourism: Horizons will end tomorrow, Dec. 1st. don't loose time and money: register now !

23.11.09

Video: MIT’s Andrew McAfee on how Web 2.0 is changing the way we work

How Web 2.0 is changing the way we work: An interview with MIT’s Andrew McAfee
Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way companies do business. But can these tools help them achieve their goals?

on the Mckinsey Quarterly >>>



Checking in Hotel Web Design: 50 Cosy Hotel Websites and Trends

an interesting list >>>

22.11.09

Africa e Scienza

una mia intervista alla RSI - Rete 2 >>>

20.11.09

Tweeting no more?

on emarketer >>>

19.11.09

Digital technologies and learning: an open space

Barcelona, 10-11 December 2009
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura La Salle
Universitat Ramon Llull
a keynote at the final workshop of the OIKODOMOS project >>>

16.11.09

E-Learning Supports European Customs in Fight Against Drug Traffickers

on OEB website >>>

PICTURE – Priests’ ICT Use in their Religious Experience

PICTURE – Priests’ ICT Use in their Religious Experience studies the usages of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and of the internet in particular, by the priests of Christian Catholic Church.
The Congregation for the Clergy of the Holy See has communicated interest and has endorsed this research project.
PICTURE is run by the NewMinE – New Media in Education Lab of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI – Lugano, Switzerland) in collaboration with the School of Institutional Social Communications of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (PUSC – Rome, Italy).

11.11.09

eLearning in Tourism and Hospitality: A Map

Cantoni, L., Kalbaska, N. & Inversini, A. (2009) eLearning in Tourism and Hospitality: A Map, «JoHLSTE – Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education», 8/2: 148-156 (DOI:10.3794/johlste.82.263)

7.11.09

Blog Rimini

a brand new Blog about Rimini, the popular Italian tourism destination (also in Italian: BlogRimini)

22.10.09

16.10.09

KAYAK Trends

Where are people trying to go, and where are they looking to stay? Find the latest KAYAK search trends for travel to or from nearly any commercial airport in the world and for the most searched hotels in popular destinations. Data from hundreds of millions of searches over the past 12 months on KAYAK site >>>

Brands Seek Fans on Facebook

on adweek >>>

Lufthansa MySkyStatus

While you're in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages >>>

Two-Year Study of Global Internet Traffic Will Be Presented At NANOG47

by Arbor Networks, the University of Michigan and Merit Network >>>

14.10.09

Generation Y, Digital Learners and Other Dangerous Things


Journal of technology, culture, and education
Call for Special Issue
Generation Y, Digital Learners and Other Dangerous Things
edited by Lorenzo Cantoni & Stefano Tardini
download the call (in pdf) >>>

Formazione: da Asfor il wiki glossario per "Le parole dell'e-Learning"

Milano, 12 ott. - (Adnkronos/Labitalia) - Per capite tutti i termini della formazione on line e a distanza arriva il 'wiki' "Le parole dell'e-Learning" (www.glossarioelearning.net), il glossario dell'e-Learning che ASFOR, Associazione Italiana per la Formazione Manageriale, ha sviluppato con il contributo scientifico di SIe-L Societa' Italiana di eLearning e con il supporto tecnologico del Centro METID del Politecnico di Milano >>>

Obama against freedom of press?!


Appropriate Attacks on the Press? on Fox >>>

8.10.09

A systematic methodology to use LEGO bricks in web communication design

Cantoni, L., Marchiori, E., Faré, M., Botturi, L., and Bolchini, D. 2009. A systematic methodology to use LEGO bricks in web communication design. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM international Conference on Design of Communication (Bloomington, Indiana, USA, October 05 - 07, 2009). SIGDOC '09. ACM, New York, NY, 187-192. 
DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1621995.1622032

7.10.09

La ricerca scientifica per un mondo migliore

an important meeting @ USI, hosted by the NewMinE Lab (a pdf document) >>>

two new PhD positions available!

a great call! >>>

La FOSIT incontra le istituzioni universitarie del Ticino

23 ottobre 2009 ore 17.00 – 19.00
Auditorium
Università della Svizzera italiana >>>

1.10.09

La comunicazione online e le sfide per i professionisti del turismo

Lugano, 11 febbraio 2010.
Swiss Day della Conferenza internazionale ENTER2010 - eTourism: Horizons.
un grande programma!

26.9.09

24.9.09

KFPE annual Day in Lugano: the online channel is live

the event will be broadcast live from this url >>>

Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog >>>