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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 [...]

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

http://feedroom.businessweek.com/linking/index.jsp?skin=oneclip&fr_story=4ff1e4b3a9adab1fad937c0f767acc92c93cf3ae&rf=ev&hl=true

Hey folks,

Another quarter has come and gone and there are lots of ideas floating around at various stages of implementation. Students in my Object Oriented Analysis and Design course as well as those in Digital Entrepreneurship have created a set of 20 or more great business ideas. I have mentioned on numerous occasions the RIT [...]

Good News! Our DigEnt Community (http://digent.rit.edu) has been listed as a leading example of a Collaboration Web by the New Media Consortium (http://nmc.org). Community member Joeann Humbert made the connection between DigEnt and NMC. Congratulations to all community members whose work received this acknowledgement!

See pages 14 and 15 of the Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

About the Horizon [...]

I just returned from an invigorating two days at my first NSF Future INternet Design (FIND) community meeting. As you may know, Golisano Computing colleague Nirmala Shenoy and I were fortunate to have a grant accepted for this program.

What I learned quickly at this meeting is that the FIND community are a VERY impressive group [...]

I love this. It used to be an interested fellow would have to use Pipes to make this happen. Not anymore. Here is every article (now and ongoing) that the new york times publishes involving facebook:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/facebook/

Way back in 2006, a group of RIT faculty: DeMartino, Hull, Hair and I proposed a new course in Digital Entrepreneurship. The NCIIA funded the research and development that went into it, and I became its instructor. Last Spring, we offered it for the first time, and it was an exceptional learning experience.

I am happy [...]

Well, the RIT Entrepreneurship Conference was a big success. Really big, I would say, for our region and our school. Among the many things I heard during the day was about physical things interacting with the Internet. There is a long history of this kind of thinking and ideas. Some highlights:

1999 Kevin Kelly’s New [...]

All, we begin a big week at RIT as we approach Friday’s Entrepreneurship conference. This year’s theme is the New Economy and we have lots of exciting people and ideas in the house. Our Keynote speakers are RIT President Bill Destler as well as Technorati CEO Dave Sifry.

http://www2.rit.edu/entconf/2007/

BUT HURRY! Last year we filled quickly and [...]

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