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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

As announced in Brazilian press in October of 2013, a new version of a law in Brazil just took effect, mandating that smartphones give visibility to Brazilian-made apps , by either pre-loading phones with these homegrown apps or providing a dedicated marketplace on smartphones to display them. What’s good about the “Good Law”.

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Opposing Salesforce.com attempt to TM "Social Enterprise"

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services. The application purports to claim the trademark “social enterprise” in five areas: computer software, business services, educational services, on-line software and social networking services.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s technical step) - for those that don't get immersive spaces for social. t think I???ve D) is to going.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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Redacted comes out of stealth with $60M in funding and a new take on fighting cybercrime

TechCrunch

The core of what Redacted does comes out of direct experience that Kelly said he had while working at Facebook, where he both built in-house threat response tools but also worked with third-party vendors to secure the social networking giant’s systems, employees and users. “But that was always a lie.

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How to: 5 Steps for hosting a successful online event

Forum One

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Murphy's Law: technology will inherently fail you when you least expect it. Help people use the tools you've chosen - don't do it for them, but teach them how to be successful on their own.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble.

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