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information Literacy are we doing anything in the UAE?

For 11 years I have been teaching my own brand of information literacy at Zayed University. I like to think that some headway has been made, I am not sure. What I do know is that there are all sorts of professors doing their own little bit to push the idea of information or maybe [...]

Screen Free Week, can you do it?

screen-free week april 18-24   The Media Education Foundation is proud to endorse Screen-Free Week, sponsored by our friends at the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. The intention of this week is to raise awareness about the amount of media that we use — and its impact on our lives — by “turning off screens and turning [...]

Your Way…

How many times have you said, “if only I was my own boss?” Probably half a dozen times this week alone. So what is stopping you from taking the leap? I had a wonderful conversation with Lucy Roberts of PLUG about her communication business and how it all started. Lucy was irreverent and real. The 1st rule [...]

OLD School For My Ted Sharing.

TED is all about sharing ideas and I am all for that. But the TED experience is an odd thing because it is more than just listening to people tell a great story. The TED experience is also about grabbing onto the subtle nuance that happens in the space between the obvious. The problem with [...]

Tony Deifell offers a reset.

I have done a lot of interviews on Nightline here in Dubai. Each interview has offered me something personally. But my conversation with Tony Deifell was nothing short of extraordinary. Tony offered up, in 45 minutes, the tools to look at what we are doing and move forward! Now this is not to suggest that [...]

Put up or shut up

We academics are a funny group of people. We spend our days sitting in relatively well furnished buildings dispensing the building blocks of information to the generation that is going to fix the mess we have made. But as a rule we academics do very little when it comes to actually practicing what we teach! [...]

Are we too tied to our media.

I teach in a college of communication and work in the media and am now asking if we are too tied to the very media I am pushing people towards. It would seem I am not the only person asking this question. AdAge has recently published a report online titled ‘Study Brings New Meaning to [...]

Content Curator New Job Title

I don’t know how often you read Robin Good but there is no question if you are into tech applications and dare I say New Media, even convergence/divergence, this is a must read blog. Yes we need more local coverage of ideas and issues, maybe that means we need more journalists. But I dare say [...]

Sesame Street Gives Social Media Lessons!

There are still many individuals and even more company’s that have yet to embrace social media. Yes it is work. Yes social media requires a paradigm shift in economic thinking. Yes social media requires a paradigm shift in customer relationships. But there is no denying the power of social media! Sesame Street, well the Muppet’s, [...]

Tradition and Future=Curators

There is a major struggle going on today in the area of news and information content creation and dissemination. The struggle is on several fronts, between the old school journalist and the new school technology enabled journalist, as well as with those who are looking at old school print/video/audio and the new smart technologies. And [...]

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