Recently found … 08/03/2010

  • Create QR Codes with a QR Code Generator. A QR Code is a bar code that can be scanned using your camera phone and a QR Code Reader. In many parts of the world the scanning of a QR Code has become the door to the mobile Internet.

    tags: QR qrcode barcode tools mobile

  • Pennsylvania to Receive More Than $514 Million in Additional Recovery Funds: Pennsylvania Recovery Dollars Have Provided Funding For More Than 10,000 Education Jobs

    U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that an additional $514,403,320 is now available for Pennsylvania under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. To date, Pennsylvania has received $3,466,058,936 through the ARRA.

    tags: politics educational reform DOE PDE

    • Pennsylvania to Receive More Than $514 Million in Additional Recovery Funds

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      Pennsylvania Recovery Dollars Have Provided Funding For More Than 10,000 Education Jobs

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      U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that an additional $514,403,320 is now available for Pennsylvania under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. To date, Pennsylvania has received $3,466,058,936 through the ARRA.

  • How and whether social networking tools can effect organizational communication and collaboration.

    tags: collaboration web2.0 social networking social media twitter communication community

    • social networking compared with knowledge management (KM)
    • Organizations employ KM systems to increase the value of their “intellectual capital.” However, the technology that supports KM systems has traditionally been difficult to develop and deploy.
    • Social networking is easing some of the frustration users in many organizations have encountered with traditional KM systems. Through use of Twitter and other tools, more of the intellectual capital that KM systems once guarded is flowing freely, in real time, inside and outside organizations.
    • the most interesting aspect to how social networking and collaboration tools are used is users’ ability to join ongoing conversations.
    • collaboration possible on the site is a question of “not just; ‘What are you doing?’ but, ‘What do we have in common?’
    • “Interactivity used to be about clicking on a website, but it turns out that was pretty passive,” she said. “We are now living up to what we said could be done.” That includes the potential for much richer customer communication that can offer links and embedded content as part of real-time conversations. “Active” dialogue between consumers and companies using social media, she added, break through the limits of traditional marketing, which relies on one-way communication and canned messaging.
    • technology is allowing communication, collaboration and content sharing to become one and the same. “These tools bring human delight by breaking down barriers.” Lippe cautioned that the notion of someone Tweeting to get an answer in a legal setting is “fairly mind-boggling.” However, he agreed with the panelists that, even in the most vertically oriented industries, “the incredibly open and vibrant world represented by the social networking community” will be a catalyst for dynamic changes in the years to come.
  • “This website is an ongoing project which attempts to replace all of the single use websites into one. Essentially the swiss army knife of websites! Currently:

    URL Shortener
    Image Hosting
    Pastebin
    External IP Address
    Disposable E-Mail Address
    Password Strength Meter (Including common password matches)
    User Agent
    Google Search (Use 1dl.us as your homepage!)

    tags: tools hosting email password urlshorteners

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