Twitter FavesSwivel is an online data upload, comparison and sharing platform. You can upload spreadsheets, or import them from Google, and then create visually appealing graphs. I came across Swivel in the last copy of Fast Company, which shows that the company already had 585,816 graphs uploaded at the the end of its first year of [...]
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One of the unschooling activities that we are looking at for next year is boat building, or at least boat repair. Graham sent me this wonderful article on how you can learn most of life’s essential lessons by building your own boat. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. By Graham McTavish [...]
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The WEF has released its Global Information Technology Report, which includes the Networked Readiness Index: Since it was first launched in 2001, The Global Information Technology Report has become a valuable and unique benchmarking tool to determine national ICT strengths and weaknesses, and to evaluate progress. It also highlights the continuing importance of ICT application [...]
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The NB Self-Sufficiency Task Force is making its recommendations, based on its stated realities of a “need to increase our population and our labour force”, “increase labour productivity by providing people with the right tools for he right jobs”, create “large-scale investments in infrastructure”, and “expand our existing corporate base”. All of this is premised [...]
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Comments have been temporarily disabled on this site. They should be back up soon, because I do appreciate them. Update: Comments are now enabled
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I’ve been asked by a local high school teacher to spend some time with his students on Friday: if you wouldn’t mind coming in and sharing some of your expertise with my Business, Organization and Management Class … particularly what I would hope you could offer is how you as an entrepreneur have made the [...]
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BACKGROUND About five years ago I met Barry and Pam at the Atlantic Wildlife Institute, which is located about 15 KM outside of Sackville on a large property bordering the headwaters of the Tantramar River. At the time, AWI consisted of about a dozen buildings, each designed for a specific type of animal care. The [...]
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Witnessing the effects of six hours of homework after a six hour school day has had my mind churning so much that I cannot sleep. Consider this an open letter to the New Brunswick Department of Education and all educators. Like the Berlin Wall, homework is a barrier between stagnation and progress. It reinforces many [...]
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In the past year I’ve registered over 104,000 comment sp@m on this blog. I’ve been using Akismet, which works well, but at +1,000 per day, they were chewing up bandwidth and slowing the system. I liked Akismet because it allowed me to accept new and anonymous comments, without the hassles of captchas or Turing tests, [...]
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In recent discussions about building new businesses or community economic development projects I’m beginning to feel that the largest obstacles to effective communication are the outdated models that we use. Given the dominance of the corporate governance model in business, government and non-profit organisations, it’s no wonder that many of us don’t see any other [...]
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