by Beth Dunn on 29 March 2008
Google has turned the lights out today, and asks you to do the same. Turn out your lights (all of them — go ahead, who doesn’t love candlelight) tonight from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm in your time zone, in honor of Earth Hour. Don’t doubt that Google Earth will be recording images from space. [...]
by Beth Dunn on 27 March 2008
Free, open-source course management system Moodle is getting attention, as well it should if it’s what it seems to be: cost-effective (nothing is ever really free, your time and your staff’s time is worth money), reliable (the site boasts 300,000 registered users and over 40,000 registered courses, with an impressive growth curve), and built for [...]
by Beth Dunn on 22 March 2008
I took a week off from writing, for several very good reasons, and now I’m back. Miss me? Of course you didn’t. One of the reasons I took a brief sabbatical was my reaction to this post by Chris Brogan on what it felt like to not have a blog for eight days. In it, [...]
by Beth Dunn on 16 March 2008
To build trust between a consumer and a brand, people need to feel they’re sharing it with other people instead of a corporation pushing it down on them… The goal is to have people experience the product on their own terms and turn them into brand ambassadors.” -Frank Cooper, vice president for flavored carbonated soft [...]
by Beth Dunn on 14 March 2008
Geek Girl Camp Cape Cod is a new mini-conference for the technologically-inclined of the female persuasion, and it is debuting next month right here on Cape Cod, in lovely downtown Hyannis. Set for Thursday, April 17 and running from 5:30 pm until… some intriguingly unspecified time later in the evening… this one-evening shebang will feature [...]