16.6.10

ENTER2011

Twitter Places: More Context For Your Tweets

you can tag Tweets with specific places, including all World Cup stadiums in South Africa, and create new Twitter Places >>>

O.T.: Football World Cup

just seen in Weggis, isn't that too much?

TripAdvisor integrates with Facebook for referrals

on Hotelmarketing.com >>>

11.6.10

Twitter ...

labs' research mission

To investigate online communication as a true human activity, with a long-term, comprehensive and holistic approach.
In particular, stressing human growth and quest for meaning in educational and touristic experiences – eLearning and eTourism – as well as in international development – ICT4D.
NewMinE - New Media in Education Lab
webatelier.net
eLab - eLearning Lab

PICTURE – Priests’ ICT Use in their Religious Experience

NewMinE Lab (USI), School of Church Communications (PUSC) (2010), PICTURE – Priests’ ICT Use in their Religious Experience: world and continental reports are now online

10.6.10

decano / dean

Nomina del prof. Lorenzo Cantoni a Decano della Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione: entrerà in carica a settembre / Professor Lorenzo Cantoni appointed Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, to take office in September >>>

3.6.10

1.6.10

Il turismo alla prova del web

Geronimo Web - Giovedì 3 giugno 2010, ore 11.35
A cura di Antonio Vassalli Da quando esiste Internet andare in vacanza è una felicità diversa. Si può sempre partire all’avventura oppure affidarsi ad una agenzia che ci allestisca un pacchetto bell'e pronto, ma è forse più affascinante organizzarsi tutto o quasi da soli, navigando in rete. Decidere dove andare dopo aver visitato le pagine web di paesi, regioni e città che ci interessano, prenotare aerei, treni e alberghi da casa e infine partire dopo aver magari scartato altre soluzioni che non ci sono sembrate convincenti, che non hanno saputo offrire un’immagine di sé in grado di catturare la nostra voglia di evasione.
L’immagine proposta sul web è ormai diventata un fattore determinante che spinge gli operatori turistici a investire parecchio nei siti di rappresentanza per renderli accattivanti ed esaustivi.
Ne parleranno, con particolare riferimento al Ticino, Carlo Fontana presidente degli albergatori di Lugano e Lorenzo cantoni docente presso la facoltà di scienze della comunicazione dell’USI.

Virtual university aims to boost Islamic science

on SciDev >>>

28.5.10

Time Spent on Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo Dips in April

on ClickZ >>>

conferenza stampa di presentazione della ricerca PICTURE su Sacerdoti e internet

Lunedì 31 maggio, alle ore 12.30, presso la sala Marconi della Radio Vaticana (piazza Pia, 3), S. Em. R. Card. Claudio Hummes, Prefetto della Congregazione per il Clero, presiederà una conferenza stampa sulla ricerca PICTURE - Priests’ICT Use in their Religious Experience.
Alla conferenza prenderanno parte i responsabili della ricerca: il prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, dell’Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) di Lugano, e i professori Mons. Lucio Ruiz e Daniel Arasa della Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (PUSC) di Roma.
Ai presenti sarà distribuito un report dei dati mondiali della ricerca, che ha coinvolto circa 5.000 sacerdoti (l’1.2% del totale dei sacerdoti).

26.5.10

Facebook: "Making Control Simple"

the new privacy settings of Facebook presented by Mark Zuckerberg >>>

con la classe del Master in gestione dei Media

red-conference – rethinking education in the knowledge society

7-10 March 2011.
Centro Stefano Franscini – the congress centre of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETH Zurich) – situated at Monte Verità (Ascona, Switzerland).
I'm proud to co-chair this conference. It's a must! read the CFP and submit!

@ eLearning Africa 2010

>>>

25.5.10

Arizona Office of Tourism

Facebook advertising case (in pdf) >>>

CloudCourse: An Enterprise Application in the Cloud

At Google we have experts on everything from Python to penguins. However, connecting our expert teachers to eager students around the globe can be a complicated business. To that end, we are excited to release our new internal learning platform, CloudCourse under an open source license. Built entirely on App Engine, CloudCourse allows anyone to create and track learning activities. CloudCourse also offers calendaring, waitlist management and approval features >>>

23.5.10

Holy Shroud Exhibition

the Holy Shroud Exhibition has ended today: 2,113,128 people visited it.
see more data here (in Italian) >>>
see the official webiste used for incoming management here >>>
see the HaltaDefinizione digital image of the shroud here (more than 12 billions pixels) >>>
see info about the digital acquisition here >>>

19.5.10

virtualvacay

an augmented reality application by hotels.com >>>

17.5.10

Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn't The Future

an interesting comment by Stowe Boyd >>>

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 >>>