UMassOnline Wins 2008 Public Sector Technology Leadership Award
On October 28th, UMassOnline Chief Executive Officer David Gray announced that UMassOnline has been named this year’s winner of the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s Technology Leadership Award among public sector organizations. This coveted recognition, which was announced at the Council’s 11th Annual awards event on October 23 in Boston, honors the region’s leading public sector […]
Best to separate the ‘Social’ from the ‘Networking’ says The NY Times
A recent overview article in the New York Times provides a great deal of good advice for anyone still uncertain about, or afraid of, social networking. In short, Times writer Sarah Jane Tribble, in her piece entitled The Social Network as a Career Safety Net, says there is much to gain if you follow a […]
Nora Barnes of UMass Dartmouth Continues to Lead the Social Media Conversation
Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Chancellor Professor of Marketing and Director for the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, has been featured here often for her pioneering research work and findings about the growing value of social media and networks in education. Her groundbreaking work is, in fact, gaining her a national […]
A Contemporary Discourse on Free, Open Source, Online Texts vs. the Alternatives
There was a time not so long ago when no one questioned the long-term viability of the mainstream print media. Now newspapers nationwide are suffering. Some visionaries predicted this outcome, but either their positions weren’t heard, or they were heard and routinely discounted or dismissed.
So what are we to make of those few who are […]
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