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2011/11/132011/11/13

Howard Rheingold: Finding Credible Social Information & Crap Detection

Finding Credible Information Sources in Social Networks Based on Content & Social Structure (PDF DOWNLOAD) “A task of primary importance for social network users is to decide whose updates to subscribe to in order to maximize the relevance, credibility, and quality of the information received. To address this problem, we conducted an experiment designed to …

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2011/11/022011/11/02

Howard Rheingold: Mindfulness for Executives

Webinar: “Cultivating the Executive Mind: Is Mindfulness the Key to 21st Century Economic Survival?” Peter Drucker, the founder of the discipline of modern management, asserted that making knowledge workers productive was the key to economic survival for the developed economies. Though knowledge workers use their minds to make a living, are they ever taught to …

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2011/10/19

Howard Rheingold: Percolate Information Curation

About || Percolate “Percolate is the first content curation platform that works by bubbling up interesting content based on your network and presenting it back to you for reaction. Percolate works by hooking up to streams of content (like RSS and Twitter, with more to come) and filtering down to the most interesting stuff for …

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2011/10/16

Howard Rheingold: 10 Online Tools for Better Focus

A recent happiness study from Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert found that the more our minds wander, the less happy we are. Summing the research, the New York Times wrote, “Whatever people were doing, whether it was having sex or reading or shopping, they tended to be happier if they focused on the activity instead …

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2011/09/302011/09/30

Howard Rheinigold: Cultivating a Personal Learning Network

Institute for Social and Network Literacy Life Skills for Knowledge Citizenship Notes on cultivating a personal learning network Explore — it’s not just about knowing how to find experts, co-learners, but about exploration as invitation to serendipitous encounter. Search – Use Diigo, delicious, listorious, to find pools of expertise in the fields that interest you. …

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2011/09/23

Howard Rheingold: News Filters for the Future – Technical Services or Human Networks?

Everyone wants to be a news filter now Mathew Ingram Gigaom.com, 21 September 2011 As the avalanche of information coming through social networks and real-time tools like Twitter continues to grow, the need for filters to make sense of that tsunami of data also increases, and it seems as though everyone has a different way of …

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2011/09/202011/09/20

Howard Rheingold: 30 Sep to 11 Nov Online & Live Course on Literacy of Cooperation

Announcing a new Rheingold U course: Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation For the past ten years, I’ve worked with Institute for the Future to track the emergence of a new story about how humans get things done together. The old story of survival of the fittest, competition, rational self-interest is changing as new knowledge …

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