http://ubernoggin.com Web 2.0 in Marketing and Education Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:02:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New technologies can be scary but for businesses the risk of being passed by is too high to be scared off. The best example of late is Mattel's steamrollering by Scrabulous. Mattel didn't jump on the opportunity to create an application for Facebook when they could have and Scrabulous did ... http://ubernoggin.com/archives/250 Skimming through my RSS reads today I stumbled on Mashable's post about Apture. No doubt you're wondering what the new link types are here in the text. They're Apture links. Here's what it does...once you've created an Apture account, added the plug-in to your site, and activated it, Apture lets you ... http://ubernoggin.com/archives/249 Local bloggers from across Indiana will gather at the IUPUI Campus Center on August 16-17th, 2008, for Blog Indiana 2008, a 2-day blogging and social media conference that aims to promote education, innovation and collaboration among Indiana’s fast-growing blogging community. The conference is sponsored by the IU School of Informatics. Yours ... http://ubernoggin.com/archives/248 I know I'm an early adopter and that I tend to try out new web apps that other people don't quite see as useful so I admit that I have a certain amount of bias. Regardless, I have to rant a bit about the so called "tech journalists" who begin ... http://ubernoggin.com/archives/247 Lately I've been giving talks about the potential conflict between formal, institutionalized learning and the kind of informal, self-driven learning that social media supports. At the Sloan-C conference, and more recently at EduComm, I tried to get folks thinking about the difference between the way we learn in school and ... http://ubernoggin.com/archives/195 Dinner in Sao Paulo, originally uploaded by intellagirl. When the food came is was awesome. Slices of steak, chicken, incredible sausage, and lots of veggies with couscous and bread. Yum! We took a chance and it turned out well. http://ubernoggin.com/archives/194 We ordered what?!, originally uploaded by intellagirl. It's very humbling to be in a country where you don't speak the language. Mark and I headed out to a restaraunt last night and basically said "We'll have what they're having" pointing to a nearby table. We weren't really ... http://ubernoggin.com/archives/193 If you're ever in Sao Paulo DO NOT miss the art museum! It's truly amazing. It's the only building I've ever seen that doesn't have a ground floor. The main exhibit area is on the second floor and below ground is a beautiful space with a few pieces of modern ... http://ubernoggin.com/archives/192 Mark and Bill in Traffic, originally uploaded by intellagirl. Mark and Bill Thompson in downtown Sao Paulo traffic http://ubernoggin.com/archives/191 Taxi in Sao Paulo, originally uploaded by intellagirl. another bit of scary taxi ride http://ubernoggin.com/archives/190