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11 NOV 09
Where are the Women in Tech and Social Media? | Radical Tech | Fast Company SAVE
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"act.ly. In a nutshell, act.ly allows you to target your petition to another Twitter user, so each time someone signs it; the tweet shows up in their mentions thus having a viral effect. Within in minutes, several people in my twitter community who were also tired of seeing women excluded from conference panels, signed the petition and retweeted (RT) it to their followers who then retweeted it to their followers. The RT chain is one of the most powerful aspects of Twitter."TAGS
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Knowledge Tools of the Future [SR-1179] | The Institute For The Future SAVE
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"These tools exploit things like semantic Web functions, microformats, and recommendation agents to provide a more productive and intuitive experience for users. These tools are powerful because they aren't hard to use, are relatively easy to use, and don't require creative people to change they ways they work. They enable users to be creative and innovative—to do what humans are uniquely good at doing, in other words—while leaving the heavy lifting of brute information processing to computers, which are very good at such tasks. "TAGS
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