Julia Roberts
Originally uploaded by Alexandra Mitchell
Of all the adverts I’ve seen this year, I think this (late entry) surprised me the most. Not because of the concept - the hilarious coincidence that sometimes people who are not famous share names with people who are famous has been used before - or the clumsy copy. It [...]
Categories: advertising · network · technology
Tags: advertising, social media, technology
Some fascinating research from MIT Sloan today; Understanding productivity in the Information Age. The project consisted of analysing data from emails on a single company’s network:
As part of a study of an executive recruiting firm conducted over a five-year period, the researchers were able to analyze ten months of the firm’s e-mail traffic. While the [...]
Categories: management · network
Tags: communication, management, mit sloan, research
apophenia asks:
I have yet to hear a compelling argument for why social network sites (or networking ones) should be used in the classroom. Those tools are primarily about socializing, with media and information sharing there to prop up the socialization process (much status is gained from knowing about the cool new thing). I haven’t even [...]
Categories: network
Tags: danahboyd, education, facebook, socialnetworking, twitter