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Can Slime Mold be an Organizing System?

October 3, 2011 - 15:31 — Andreaangquist

Now that we're over a month into our semester, the concepts we learned early on in 202 are starting to seem somewhat obvious and second nature. Judging from our class Twitter feed, most of us are seeing organizing systems everywhere we go and generally it's easy to determine whether something is an organizing system or not. When I read this article on slime mold, I wasn't sure. While we exclude "naturally occurring patterns created by biological processes" from our definition, some of the slime mold's behavior seems purposeful. If we exclude slime mold communities f

Customer Experience Management

September 30, 2011 - 17:11 — suhani

With the rise in Customer Relationship Management, many
companies are providing different kinds of tools to capture feedback from users
and analyze it.

VisionCritical has come up with a software that integrates
customer related data from various sources-inside as well as outside the organization.
I am wondering how they collect the information and organize it in a way that
is consistent throughout the data.

Infographic of the Worlds Deadliest Pandemics in History

September 28, 2011 - 08:21 — hintzemichael

hintzemichael's blog

Competitive Intelligence

September 23, 2011 - 19:32 — ashams

Article - Corporate spies mine for gold on social media

competitive company spy tweet

Good.is the Data Issue: Place Porn

September 17, 2011 - 13:57 — hintzemichael

For some of us finding a place to live is a no brainer, you chose to live where you grew up surround by the things you know best. For others we are on a constant search looking for the next best place. The author of the article like myself has always been fascinated about moving to a new place.

Social Bookmarking

September 12, 2011 - 22:06 — anitameng2011

Social bookmarking, also referred to as social book marketing, is a way for internet users to manage, share, and store useful resources they have found online. Instead of saving sites to a local computer, social bookmarking sites allow users to save their favorite bookmarks online, giving them the ability to access them anywhere, at any time. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.

The advantage of the social bookmarking method is innovative for both businesses and consumers.

Organizing Laptops as Marketing Strategy

September 11, 2011 - 21:57 — che

A recent thread on [noise] pointed to this article on Ars Technica about Intel's Ultrabook program and the search for a competitor to Apple's MacBook Air. The author explains a desire for a MacBook Air that isn't an Apple - essentially, a comparable laptop from one of the leading PC manufacturers. Low and behold, he is unable to find anything close.

Is it a Museum, a Library or a School?

September 11, 2011 - 21:04 — Andreaangquist

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24naturalhistory-...

Despite having the word 'museum' in it's name, the American Museum of Natural History is no longer just a museum. As of 2009, the Museum is also an accredited graduate university, complete with it's own massive research library.

Why Metadata Will Define the Future of TV

September 11, 2011 - 19:49 — taeil2

The landscape of TV viewing has changed in the past
decade. With the advent of faster internet and mobile devices, TV shows have expanded past just the
television. Now, people want to be able
to watch TV everywhere: computers, phones, tablets, etc.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

September 11, 2011 - 15:19 — curtis

They say time is money. Sometimes it can feel like that adage never rings truer than at an airport, specifically the tenuous boarding process. Passengers never fail to queue up behind people stowing their carry-on or clog the aisle to let someone take a window seat.