"Innovation and Wealth Creation: the British Library Perspectivebridgingworlds2008
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The British Library supports entrepreneurs and small businesses through its Business & IP Centre. It provides workshops, events, and business resources to help with starting and growing businesses. An independent survey found the Centre helped create 47 new businesses and 115 new jobs. It welcomed over 75,000 visitors who attended over 1,000 workshops and advice sessions. The Centre aims to inspire ideas through its collections and events and help businesses at all stages, from initial ideas to protecting intellectual property.
This document summarizes PeopleSoft HCM solutions and best practices. It discusses how PeopleSoft HCM can streamline HR systems through a global architecture with local functionality. It also outlines how PeopleSoft HCM provides core HR, benefits administration, payroll interfaces and an employee self-service portal. Finally, it describes how PeopleSoft HCM supports best practices like aligning the workforce with business objectives through features like workforce planning and rewards.
Library spaces in the knowledge society knotting together global and localbridgingworlds2008
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This document discusses the role of libraries in knowledge societies. It notes that knowledge has become a main factor of social disparity and power is based on expertise. It also examines paradoxes in knowledge societies like the more context-free information exists, the more important context-bound knowledge becomes. The document discusses public spaces and how libraries serve as representative, appreciative, and social spaces. It also looks at how libraries can link local and global networks by providing both physical and virtual spaces and resources.
This document discusses how technology can be used as an assistive resource to help students with various learning difficulties. It provides examples of technologies like talking calculators, word prediction programs, and board maker software that can address problems in areas like math, reading, writing, and organization. The document emphasizes that technology provides multiple formats and entry points to engage students, accommodate disabilities, and expand learning opportunities at low cost.
Libraries as common denominator: from the citizen, country and global perspe...bridgingworlds2008
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This document discusses libraries as a common denominator from citizen, country, and global perspectives. It provides background on New Zealand, noting its small population size yet ability to enact digital policies nationally. Libraries of New Zealand contributed significantly to developing New Zealand's Digital Strategy, which focuses on ubiquitous broadband access, strategic online content, and digital skills and confidence. The strategy aims to connect businesses, communities and government through a digital environment.
Plone Foundation Annual Meeting, Budapest 2009Steve McMahon
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The Plone Foundation meeting agenda included:
1) Approval of the agenda
2) Recognizing new members and reports from various roles
3) Discussing new business such as finances and upcoming events
4) Adjourning the meeting
TerminalTux - Terminal Server Open Source 100%! - Confsl 2009Mirco Piccin
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Terminaltux 竪 un sistema per implementare un terminal server Linux utilizzando strumenti FLOSS, permettendo accesso a applicativi e desktop remoto da vari dispositivi. Offre vantaggi come accesso centralizzato alle applicazioni e manutenzione semplificata, ma ha svantaggi relativi ai costi e alla libert degli utenti. Pu嘆 migliorare la sicurezza, il controllo delle applicazioni e le prestazioni aziendali, riducendo anche alcuni costi operativi.
Rufty Senior Center The Importance Of Land ConservationLandTrustCNC
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The document summarizes the importance of land conservation efforts by the Land Trust for Central NC. It discusses how land trusts work to protect natural areas, farms, and rural landscapes. The Land Trust for Central NC has protected over 16,000 acres across 12 counties through conservation easements and land ownership. The document outlines the benefits of land conservation for the environment, local economy, and quality of life. It encourages community support through volunteer assistance and membership in the Land Trust.
The document provides stretches to do while sitting at a computer for long periods of time. It recommends doing the stretches every hour or whenever feeling stiff to relieve neck, shoulder, and lower back pain. Instructions are given for various stretches with pictures and the document can be photocopied and kept at the desk for reference.
The document discusses playfulness in the 2008 Obama presidential campaign on Facebook. It argues that the campaign employed playful tactics like applications and framing their presence as fun to make their political messaging more viral in a top-down strategy. However, playfulness can also emerge bottom-up from grassroots support when popular political expression takes on playful forms. The document examines how embedded playfulness on the internet and in social interactions on Facebook specifically can blur the lines between true and false, and bring a new form of productive political play and social participation when social dynamics meet online citizenship.
Project presentation at iOS DevCamp 2012Valentina Rao
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The document discusses a new iPhone app called Blues Buddies that aims to help people with depression by allowing them to find others experiencing similar issues, share experiences, talk, listen and meet in order to provide support without medication. The app addresses issues around security, gamification/feedback, matching users and geolocation. It aims to improve upon existing depression apps and services by facilitating real-time support between users through behavior change.
The document discusses the transition from Flash to HTML5, highlighting statements from industry leaders like Steve Jobs and Googles Vic Gundotra on the significant transformation in web technology. It emphasizes HTML5's growing importance and the positive response from major companies like Microsoft regarding its implementation. Additionally, it mentions various training resources available for tools related to HTML5 and digital content creation.
This document discusses the relationship between information literacy and Web 2.0 technologies. It argues that Web 2.0 is a social phenomenon enabled by technology that has impacted how users, especially the web generation, interact with and create information. Information literacy, defined as appropriate information behavior and ethical use of information, is key to helping users effectively leverage Web 2.0 tools. The document outlines strategies like active learning, collaboration, visual learning and reflective learning that leverage Web 2.0 technologies to develop students' information literacy skills.
The 7th Revolution Marketing the Chaosian Paradox bt20120606_slide_share6Bruno Teboul
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This document discusses Bruno Teboul's theory of "The 7th Marketing Revolution" and the "Chaosian Paradox" facing marketing in the digital era. It proposes that marketing is caught between the impacts of digital technology and discoveries in neuroscience and biotechnology that undermine traditional marketing foundations. This tension will force profound changes and paradigm shifts in marketing. Chaos theory can help understand the emergence of the new by defining the areas where unpredictable, random phenomena converge on predictable attractors. Marketing must transition from analysis to synthesis to accept this new paradigm.