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    Posted on March 21st, 2008

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Second Life

    Meet Jillianna Suisei, Jill’s avatar in Second Life.   Listening to Jill Hurst-Wahl the other day talk about Second Life (SL) and give a tour of InfoIsland was great.  I learned many things that I didn’t know.  For instance, although there are 13 million residents who have avatars in SL there are only 93,000+ premium residents [...]

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    Posted on March 20th, 2008

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Google’s Garden

    Okay, I’m fascinated by flowers as well as Google pics — must be because spring is very, very slow to come to my hometown this year……  Anyway, don’t you love the bunches of tulips in today’s first day of spring Google pic?  Reminds me of seeing, last October, Google’s real garden on their campus in CA. 

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    Posted on March 17th, 2008

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    Going Green

    Going green is a real theme these days and I love Google’s contribution today for St. Patrick’s Day!  I’m hoping that going green will also be a theme this year at conferences I’m involved with.  Just think, less paper — bring on the USB’s instead of binders & books!  Or maybe password protected websites like the Internet World conference  had [...]

  • Learning

    Posted on March 8th, 2008

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    Second Life: InfoIsland tour

    So much is going on with Second Life these days and if you want to know more about what is happening and why so many organizations are playing with it, then Jill Hurst Wahl’s web conference for the Education Institute on Tuesday March 18th is just for you.  Entitled, Tour of InfoIsland, Second Life, this informative [...]

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    Posted on March 6th, 2008

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    Future of Search

    This will definitely be an interesting year for search.  Our favorite evangelist, Gary Price, has left Ask.com and Stephen Abram has speculated that by the end of 2008 there will be two major search engines.  And here’s an interesing article about Microsoft opening the doors to it’s research labs and showcasing new search technology, specifically SearchTogether, [...]

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    Posted on March 3rd, 2008

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    Google & Bell

    Isn’t cool how Google celebrates Alexander Graham Bell’s birthday?  Think of where we would be without his telecom discovery.