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  • Using gaming to visualize and enhance healthcare outcomes

    New startups such as HopeLab are using gaming to enable patients to visualize and achieve improved health outcomes. Is Gamification a Healthcare Game-Changer? – CareCloud.

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  • Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online

    The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again.. From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. Related articles Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com) Menlo Ventures’ Pishevar…

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  • Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

    Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook Envwining a new healthcare  industry based on the biome not synthetic chemicals. Related articles Interdependence of Life – Earth’s Ecosystems (floydmiddle.typepad.com) How does the ocean biome collapse? (ask.metafilter.com) A Day in Eden – St Austell, United Kingdom (travelpod.com) Breitling BlackBird. the Arctic Tundra, the Antarctic Tundra,…

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  • Covestor: Crowdsourcing Investment Management

    Covestor Investment Management. Related articles Feature Friday: Covestor Profile Videos (continuations.com) Covestor issues open invitation to enable anyone to become a portfolio manager * (covestor.com) Covestor Will Give New Clients iPads(TM) (covestor.com) Investment Advisors Joining Social Networks: Adding to the evidence (covestor.com) Vancity divests Enbridge holdings (vancouverobserver.com) Share Your Feedback With the Community (covestor.typepad.com)

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  • Apple has made itself a retailing star

      Apple has made itself a retailing star – Boston.com.   Related articles   Apple’s Next BRIC Growth Frontier: Russia? (fool.com) Apple Retail is the best for a reason (imagineric.ericd.net) ∞ Apple boss tries to gut retail operation (loopinsight.com) Rumor: Apple is expanding the retail footprint of the iPad (intomobile.com) Apple retail leadership tells employees…

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  • Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology

    Microsoft Research New England head notes  that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology. Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com   Related articles A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com) What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com) Social Science…

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  • All businesses will become coffee shops

    Given that most functions of a modern business and organizations from education to retail can now be duplicated with $500 worth of computer equipment this article argues that many can now be better managed as coffee shops. In the future, everything will be a coffee shop – Boston.com. Related articles Coffee Expo Seoul 2013 to Provide…

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  • PhD in Personal Health Informatics at Northeastern University

    PHI. Related articles Register for the Public Health Informatics: Model Best Practices Virtual Meeting (medicineandtechnology.com) Clinical Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics Vacancy: University of Manchester, UK (imianews.wordpress.com) The Role of Informatics in The Laboratory (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) IMIA Yearbook 2012 Available (imianews.wordpress.com) Health Informatics Forum MOOC to Launch (imianews.wordpress.com) Researcher will push emerging field of biodiversity informatics…

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  • Experience Research: ethnographic approaches to business consulting

      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…

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  • EPIC 2012 • October 14-17, 2012 • Savannah, GA

    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…

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  • “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”

    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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  • Jobs for the Future (JFF) uses online intelligence to find jobs in most demand

    In contrast to traditional survey based means of measuring job growth which can be quite inaccurate  Jobs for the Future’s (JFF)  John Dorrer uses ethnographic/online methods to analyze job postings (mining nearly 100,000 unique online postings for the three months ending February 14) in real time to extract the skills employers are asking for right now, then works…

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