Employers put offices in social media pockets

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By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com

It is a man­ag­er’s prob­lem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to main­tain pro­duc­tiv­i­ty when work­ers are using valu­able com­pa­ny time to update their Face­book sta­tus or check their Twit­ter feeds.

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Employers put offices in social media pockets

Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

 

 

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Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com

 

 

Unless you hap­pen to get some sort of obses­sive com­pul­sive sat­is­fac­tion from keep­ing your inbox in ship­shape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — deal­ing with email has got to be one of the most dead­en­ing aspects of any office jo…

 

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The Next Gen Datacenter

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English: The CERN datacenter with World Wide Web and Mail servers. Nederlands: Het CERN datacentrum met World Wide Web en Mail servers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Big Data: Facebook’s next big idea

By Gery Menegaz for Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter | August 1, 2012 — 17:00 GMT (10:00 PDT) Follow @GeryMenegaz, zdnet.com

The Face­book fal­la­cy is that at its core the Social Net­work is real­ly an adver­tis­ing com­pa­ny.

If you look at their quar­ter­ly report, you see that about 82% of their rev­enue comes from adver­tis­ing, so it backs up this asser­tion. Th…

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How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma

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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 …

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The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts

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English: Twitter Inc headquarters Deutsch: Twitter Inc Hauptsitz Français : Twitter Inc Siège Español: la sede de twitter inc (Photo credit: Wikipedia)barracudalabs.com

 

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The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts

Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval

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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…

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Intel futurist know what you want

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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. …

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Just how hot is it in the US right now?

Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing.

ReD Associates: Anthropological perspectives on business problems

 

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JHU 7th Annual Biotech Research Symposium live webcast

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English: Photograph of first medical school graduating class of Johns Hopkins University, 1897. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

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