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How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma Without Running Afoul Of The FDA By Ben Paynter, fastcompany.com The biggest challenge to treating patients with diabetes isn’t doling out medications, it’s making sure that people control their habits. Poor diet and lack of exercise generally create complications with the disease. To combat…
http://flpbd.it/6C2q0 The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts Related articles The ‘Twitter Underground Economy’: Buying (fake) Twitter followers (nextlevelofnews.com) 10 Career Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com) We Tried To Fly A Drone But Failed Miserably (businessinsider.com) The Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy…
Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Personal genetics company 23andMe announced Monday that it was seeking FDA approval for an initial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to follow. 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, markets genetics test… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…
Intel’s futurist knows what tech you’ll want tomorrow by Brian Cooley, cnet.com Brian David Johnson is Intel’s guy in charge of knowing what tomorrow will be like. No pressure. He shows CNET’s Brian Cooley what’s next. Technological futurism to Intel’s Brian David Johnson is a lot more than engineering. … http://flpbd.it/CdGlY Related articles Is…
Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…
ReD Associates | Ideas that transform marketplaces. Related articles Increasing Companies’ Profitability with Managed Print (icnmsolutions.wordpress.com) Calling All Anthropologists: We Need a Photo of You! (aaanet.org) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) Creating knowledge in social sciences (thehindu.com) Morbid Road Trip: Medical Oddities Around the World (mentalfloss.com) Instagram Ethnographer…
Dr. Jonathan Pevsner will be discussing “Bioinformatics approach to understanding childhood brain disorders“. Dr. Pevsner is an Associate Professor at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and holds a Primary Faculty Appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Please join us for our 7th Annual Research Symposium online. Click here to view the webcast Related articles…
Hilarious. For anyone who has ever gone to “Dunkin”. If you are going to work in the Boston tech and science community, you need to “speak the language”…. A linguistic taste of Massachusetts – Boston.com.
Why fiction is good for you – Boston.com. New studies show that in fact a steady diet including some fiction is good for us and results in more effective behavior change and learning than non-fiction. This is because of cognitive “shields” we put up when reading non-fiction. Also fiction acts as a social glue to…
New Boston biotech companies such as Ginkgo BioWorks, Cambrian Innovation, and Manus Biosynthesis are tapping into ancient organisms and new IT capabilities to produce new solutions that are environmentally clean, US based, and fast with as little as 6 month product development life cycles. Gingko notes that 1/4 of their employees are software developers and…
Experience Research. Related articles The Tree: I Was a Teenage Ethnographer! (dailyreturns.wordpress.com) Leet Noobs: An ethnographic view of WoW raiding from researcher Mark Chen (wow.joystiq.com) What Twitter Can Learn From Weibo: Field Notes From Global Tech Ethnographer Tricia Wang (fastcompany.com) Ethnographic Practice in Industry (qrfrag.blogspot.com) Bordering on (in)visibility: The mobility and containment of Haitian…
EPIC 2012 • October 14-17, 2012 • Savannah, GA. Related articles Population Health and Social Governance: Analyzing the Mainstream Incorporation of Ethnography (2012) (foucaultnews.wordpress.com) July Edition of Ethnozine – Ethnography of Wikipedia Sources, Live Fieldnoting, & 4 guest contributors for The Ethnographer’s Reading List (ethnographymatters.net) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography…
Ethnography.com » Blog Archive » “Culture” in the Science Universe of “Big Data”. Related articles The Anthropology of Snacks, Widgets, and Pills: What I Learned from Ethnographic Consumer Research Big data and DNA: What business can learn from junk genes Where does ethnography belong? Thoughts on WikiSym 2012 Big Data vs Intelligent Data (and what…
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SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today’s Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals. Related articles Demand for SEO Professionals Has Never Been Greater [Study] (conductor.com) Organizational Structure for Paid and Natural Search Teams | Conductor Blog (conductor.com) Learning SEO – Where to Start (distilled.net) Interview with Kevin Gibbons, MD of Quaturo (arhg.net) SES Conference and…
Recently I’ve noticed a bug in Apple mail in which some of my email disappears. Others have written about this (see Google). As a result I’ve begun using this archiving utility to keep download backups of my mail. MailSteward. Related articles Apple Mail in 10.8: New Special Folder for AppleScripts Used in Rules (startier.wordpress.com) Apple…
Kurt Vonnegut. He was forced to study biochemistry in college, then attempted to obtain his MA in anthropology however his thesis was rejected as too far out. later when he published books, U Chicago gave him the MA, citing his anthropological style of writing! The world is poorer without him. Related articles Love Letter to…
Over the past month I’ve been using Google voice and other Wifi based VOIP apps as my primary personal phone service due to a disinterest in paying Verizon >$100 a month over a 2 year contract for a piddling number of calls and text messages. Now, it appears that a few companies including Republic Wireless…
How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss. Related articles Apple extends iCloud storage following downgrade glitch (reviews.cnet.com) How to share documents with iCloud (macworld.com) Apple Gives Previous MobileMe Users An Extra Year Of iCloud Storage (geeky-gadgets.com) Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year (engadget.com) iCloud.com Still…
BzzAgent is the leading word-of-mouth marketing (WOM) company. Another cool Web 2.0 application that allows you to create word of mouth communities and viral networks for your product. Related articles BzzAgent’s Dave Balter Offers Word-of-Mouth Advice Rockin Week with BzzAgent Spread the Word! The Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing Bzz or bust? Put your…
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Knowledge Jolt with Jack. This guys has been at it for years, trying to get companies to embrace KM and has assembled a great collection of articles. Related articles Can you make tacit knowledge…explicit? (therunninglibrarian.co.uk) Technology Change (ivythesis.typepad.com) Move It or Lose It – Keeping Knowledge on the Move (blogs.gartner.com) Process Aligned Knowledge Management and…
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