The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
There was a lot of talk about software agents about ten years ago — computer code that would seek, filter, and deliver information specific to your interests I have not tried this yet, but I’m interested that people are trying with today’s technology — and that RSS is one of its building blocks. Introducing Primal …
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Twitter is a powerful infotention tool if you use it that way. Discovering experts and learning from them is key. I use Diigo and Delicious as hunting groungs for expertise, then follow the expert candidates I find in a particular field via Twitter lists. These step-by-step instructions can be useful to those who don’t already …
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I’m following up my infotention instruction that I presented in Introduction to Mind Amplifiers with a more advanced examination of both the ideas and the practices around intellectual augmentation and the extended mind — concept mapping, social bookmarking, personal knowledge management with tools like Personal Brain. June 19 – July 16. Limited to 30 co-learners. …
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I’m offering Think-Know Tools again June 19 -July 26. All the details about what we’ll co-learn, the schedule, missions, how we go about participative and collaborative learning, can be found at http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/think2/ Price is $300 via PayPal. $250 if you’ve taken a Rheingold U course before ($200 if you’ve taken two courses, etc.). $500 if …
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Introduction to Mind Amplifiers A five week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter Limited to 30 learners May 15 – June 21 2013 Tuition: 300 USD; 250 for Rheingold U alumni; 500 if your company reimburses. Learning objectives About this course: Expect participative and collaborative learning …
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective by Maria Popova “A man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” “The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts,” wrote James …
We’re convening “Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: Introduction to Cooperation Studies,” January 24 -March 1. A detailed syllabus: http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/cooperation4 Cost: $300; $250 if you’ve taken a Rheingold U course before; $500 if your company reimburses you. In addition to the monetary cost, a commitment to participate is required. The real magic is in learning the …
