The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
10 image editing tools to make photos fit for social sharing
LIST ONLY:
1. Social Media Image Maker
2. Statigram
3. Flickr
4. Camera+
5. Befunky
6. Pixlr Editor
7. VSCOcam
8. Afterlight
9. Infogr.am
10. PicStitch
INVESTIGATION: Who Politically Punched John Kerry in the Jimmy Carter Face?
Join Author Johnny Punish on an Irreverent Adventure as He Searches for the Perp-Pe-Traitor of the Political Rear Naked Choke Hold on Secretary of State John Kerry’s Campaign for World Peace
This week we bore witness to another smack down of a major U.S. leader by the global force that is “it”
This time, like so many before him, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was the target du jour; publicly tarred and feathered by this ominous dark sided menace.
At a closed meeting of the Trilateral Commission, the group that secretly runs the shadow government, Kerry said Israel could become an “apartheid” nation if it does not reach a peace deal to create a separate Palestinian state. And just before his warm viperian breath vapor ran cold, “it” had their attack squads scrambled into action like U.S. Taxpayer funded F-15s paid for as part of the billions upon billions of misappropriated monies and strong arm defense contracts that continue to fund the ethnic cleansing of an indigenous people in favor of whatever “it” wants.
Four More Short YouTubes Below the Fold
Continue reading “Kenneth Robinson on Education — Five YouTubes”
An Operational Check-List for Flying UAVs in Humanitarian Settings
The Humanitarian UAV Network (UAViators) has taken off much faster than I expected. More than 240 members in 32 countries have joined the network since it’s launch just a few weeks ago.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the number of humanitarian organizations that got in touch with me right after the launch. Many of them are just starting to explore this space. And I found it refreshing that every single one of them considers the case for humanitarian UAVs to be perfectly obvious. Almost all of the groups also mentioned how they would have made use of UAVs in recent disasters. Some are even taking steps now to set up rapid-response UAV teams.
My number one priority after launching the network was to start working on a Code of Conduct to guide the use of UAVs in humanitarian settings—the only one of it’s kind as far as I know. While I had initially sought to turn this Code of Conduct into a check-list, it became clear from the excellent feedback provided by members and the Advisory Board that we needed two separate documents. So my RA’s and I have created a more general Code of Conduct along with a more detailed operational check-list for flying UAVs in humanitarian settings. You’ll find the check-list here. Big thanks to Advisory Board member Gene Robinson for letting me draw on his excellent book for this check-list. Both the Code of Conduct and Check-List will continue to be updated on a monthly basis, so please do chime in and help us improve them.
Continue reading “Patrick Meier: Operational Checklist for Flying UAVs in Humanitarian Settings”
Tibco, Business Intelligence, and Open Source—Not Search
I read “Consolidation Looms in Business Intelligence, as Tibco Buys Jaspersoft for $185M.” The write up is interesting, but not exactly congruent with my views. May I explain?
The article points out:
Enterprise software vendor TIBCO has acquired Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence company, for approximately $185 million. It’s not an earth-shaking deal, but it could be a sign of things to come in an analytics software market full of companies and products that have a hard time standing out from the crowd.
MBAs will drooling at the thought of business intelligence deal making if the article’s premise is correct.
But there are several other angles in this Tibco Jaspersoft tie up.
The range of speakers and topics is worth a look. There is no focus to open source at the same time that the main emphasis appears to be the role of the state rather than service to the public.
Free and Secure Internet for All
Freedom Online, Tallinn, Estonia
April 28-29, 2014
Charlie Southwell (@charliesaidthat) brought this article to my attention. It's an interesting analysis on how to bring content strategy together. As Rahel Bailie posted on Charlie's Facebook account where he posted this, she noted that much of this article could be talked at even longer length about some of these components, and she's right. Take a look, and see what you think…I think much of it makes a lot of sense.
The 24 ingredients for a delicious content strategy
Top level: Distribution, Content, Stie Structure, Analytics
LIST ONLY:
1. Website engagement analytuics
2. Website organic traffic information
3. Keyword analysis
4. Content mind map
5. SEO & social competitor analysis
6. Category card sort
7. Tagging amendments
8. Menu restructure
9. SEO onpage
10. Evergreen content audit
11. Retrospective editing
12. Authorship review
13. Taxonomy and audit phase goals
14. Stock (durable stuff) and flow (feed)
15. Page types
16. Editorial calendar
17. Quantitative benchmarking system
18. Headlines
19. Formatting
20. Distributable content
21. Social media
22. Email
23. Partner network
24. Paid for network
