Posted in hot topics, technology on May 3rd, 2010
The “leaderboard evaluates company performance on their efforts to offer economy-wide technological climate solutions that contribute to global greenhouse gas reductions, initiatives to reduce emissions from their own footprint, and their active engagement in political advocacy and support for science based climate and energy policies”. This is Greenpeace’s third leaderboard.
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Posted in technology on Feb 10th, 2010
This AARP and Microsoft sponsored study Boomers and Technology: An Extended Conversation started off in May 2009 with events in a number of American cities. The reports looks at how boomers use technology now and are likely to use it in the future.
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Posted in General, technology on Dec 4th, 2009
This practical Australian guide has been designed to help beginners put up their own website.
Thanks to Roddy MacLeod via Resourceshelf
Posted in companies, technology on Nov 18th, 2009
This very pertinent and interesting article written by Karen Lawrence Oqvist discusses how company information circulates within an organisation, but also externally through its employees.
Thanks to FUMSI and Internet Resources Newsletter
Posted in online, technology on Jul 15th, 2009
At Mashable they have put up a “twitter guide book” which includes Twitter for business. All explained clearly and logically
Posted in companies, online, technology on Jul 1st, 2009
In February and March 2009, consulting Firm Watson Wyatt talked to leaders of 181 companies to get their opinions regarding the use of social networking, blogs and webcasts. The report’s findings found that since the onset of worsening global economic conditions, companies are making much more use of Web 2.0 technology
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Posted in companies, technology on Feb 9th, 2009
The New Zealand Companies Office has been using Facebook for sometime and earlier this year started using Twitter in order to reach the public and give out information about new services. In a Computerworld news story Justin Hygate elaborates on the reason for this.
Posted in companies, information retrieval, technology on Jan 21st, 2009
Although the article is a bit academic and technical it is an interesting read. The authors monitored IBM’s staff blog for three years to trace how information is shared and found within a company . It really discusses the old “knowledge management” issues and looks at the usefulness of corporate blogs for information gathering.
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Posted in online, technology on Dec 17th, 2008
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released the findings of their third report on 14th December. They conducted a survey which asked technological experts to look all the way out to 2020 and predict where technology was going. The major winner was the mobile phone. It makes for interesting reading.
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Posted in companies, technology on Dec 17th, 2008
This report from InformationWeek looks at how a number of companies introduced wikis into the workplace. Mention is made of the ups and downs of doing so – but generally there seems to have been really positive outcomes for all the companies.
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