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As expected, I learned a lot on my recent trip to the AMCIS conference in San Francisco. One striking thing is the incredibly high quality of new Ph.D.s in MIS. I met so many talented people, and interviewed as many as I could for our faculty position at RIT (http://bitly.com/ritmis). While advantageous for RIT, [...]

The DigEnt social network, once just courseware for the 24 people enrolled in the Digital Entrepreneurship class at RIT, has now achieved Membership of over 400 people.  I find this a truly great achievement by the contributors!

Along the way, we have received local and national media attention, benefitted from the wisdom of individuals throughout the [...]

More and more, I receive requests to help people get up to speed on the latest technologies for business. May I recommend to everyone the IDG article that was reprinted in the NY Times Yesterday called Nine Web Sites IT Pros Should Master.

The article includes some tech that is specific to corporations (such [...]

ARG Superstar Jane McGonigal describes the business implications of Alternate Reality Games

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Well, it is almost election day, and many people are watching the polls. As a newcomer to teaching stats, I have enjoyed examining the polls while my students have enjoyed quizzes about margin of error and confidence intervals .

The margin of error is the way that statisticians provide detailed information about the uncertainty associated [...]

Google’s stock has risen to $353 dollars a share at a time when the stock market has had a wild ride mostly headed downward. The New York Times article on the subject points to the increases in online advertising as an important source of their continued success.

As our Digital Business group evolves and gathers more [...]

Good news! The National Science Foundation has funded a second phase of the interdisciplinary Future Internet research project with Golisano Computing colleague Dr. Nirmala Shenoy for approximately $250,000. As before, the Saunders College team will identify and model the business impacts/ adoption patterns that are likely for a novel Internet technology. The complete award note [...]

…..spectacular! RIT Dubai President Dr. Mustafa (as people seem to call him) went with a modern design scheme that is colorful, fun, advanced tech-wise and very very cool.  Look at the smile on my face when I saw the familiar RIT style so far from home!

This new University is very much a startup.  They were [...]

The Digital Entrepreneurship community was re-mentioned in an oblique way. Apparently (and without my being aware) MSN’s Encarta carried an article entitled:

Education Upgrade

Colleges shake their reputation as late adoptersBy Lorna Collier

This article looked at the findings of the Horizon Report, which identified Digent as a novel way to support collaboration. Now, I cannot find any [...]

Here is the NYTimes article describing how Facebook continues to open its API to leverage its userbase to be the default social system online. Google and others are not so far along. Can they maintain the excitement?New Tool From Facebook Extends Its Web Presence   

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