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  • Employers put offices in social media pockets

    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. http://flpbd.it/vKpIL Employers put offices in social media pockets Related articles…

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  • Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

        Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email   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…

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  • The Next Gen Datacenter

    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…

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  • How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma

    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

      http://flpbd.it/6C2q0 The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts Related articles The ‘Twitter Underground Economy’: Buying (fake) Twitter followers (nextlevelofnews.com) 10 Career Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com) We Tried To Fly A Drone But Failed Miserably (businessinsider.com) The Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy…

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  • Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval

    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… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…

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  • Intel futurist know what you want

      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. … http://flpbd.it/CdGlY Related articles Is…

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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. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…

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  • ReD Associates: Anthropological perspectives on business problems

      ReD Associates | Ideas that transform marketplaces. Related articles Increasing Companies’ Profitability with Managed Print (icnmsolutions.wordpress.com) Calling All Anthropologists: We Need a Photo of You! (aaanet.org) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) Creating knowledge in social sciences (thehindu.com) Morbid Road Trip: Medical Oddities Around the World (mentalfloss.com) Instagram Ethnographer…

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  • JHU 7th Annual Biotech Research Symposium live webcast

    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. Please join us for our 7th Annual Research Symposium online. Click here to view the webcast Related articles…

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