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You Are Here: From the FTC for Your Kids

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 pm

We’re from the government. We’re here to help. The Federal Trade Commission has launched a new site designed to help kids learn to protect their privacy, spot frauds and scams, and avoid identity theft. You Are Here is set up as a virtual mall. Visit the West Terrace to learn about advertising techniques, target marketing,… » Read More

PBWorks and Real Time Collaboration

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 8:00 am

PBWorks has announced a “Real-time Collaboration Update”  which brings integrated Instant Messaging collaboration, Live Notifications (activity streams), Live Editing (rather than standard wiki asynchronous editing) and integrated Voice Collaboration with on-demand voice conferencing. This is a big step up. Instead of being a  mere wiki, the platform now offers different ways to collaborate, but still… » Read More

What Can We Learn About Compliance Programs From a Robot

Monday, April 13th, 2009 at 10:00 am

We all need some help if we want to get to our destination. I was struck by Kacie Kinzer’s experiment using this “tweenbot” in New York City. “Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination… » Read More