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Tom Koulopoulos’ latest book Cloud Surfing

Leader – As founder of Delphi Group he built one of the most prominent and well respected global consulting firm with offices in the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, South America, and England.

Author – His eight books, including The Innovation Zone, Smartsourcing, Corporate Instinct, Smart Companies, Smart Tools and The X-economy have introduced core industry concepts, frameworks and vernacular such as Single Point of Access, Touch Points, Digital Control Rooms, Business Operating Systems, Corporate IQ, Information Value Chains, and Smartsourcing – ideas that are widely used today in describing the impact of technology on business.

Futurist – His ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex ideas in a powerful and simple manner have won accolades from prominent business leaders and pundits, such as Tom Peters, who said of Tom’s book Corporate Instinct, “It provides and brilliant vision of where we must take our organizations to survive and thrive.”

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Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan’s work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.

McLuhan is known for coining the expressions “the medium is the message” and “the global village” and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented. Although he was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, his influence started to wane in the early seventies. In the years after his death, he would continue to be a controversial figure in academic circles. With the arrival of the internet, however, there was renewed interest in his work and perspective.

INTRODUCTION
Length: 22 minutes
Video Presentation

SAYINGS

Marshall McLuhan Speaks

1965 Hot and cool media
1968 The medium is the massage
1968 Global village
1968 Hot and cool media
1974 The medium is the message
1974 Laws of the media
1977 Violence as a quest for identity
1977 Global village
1978 The medium is the message
1978 Media ecology
1978 Charisma



5 ideas  how to use social media for your own professional development


Links to resources

Introduction

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011

1: Learn from video

YouTube

Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)

YouTube Edu

TED Talks

2: Find crowdsourced knowledge

Delicious

3: Network on Twitter

4: Network on LinkedIn

5: Network in other places

Conclusion

A Single Day in the Internet Infographic
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IS THE “PROTECT IP ACT” INTERNET CENSORSHIP?

The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011; United States Senate Bill S.968) is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to “rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods”, especially those registered outside the U.S.

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VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN ON SOPA

The bill was introduced on May 12, 2011 by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and 11 initial bipartisan co-sponsors. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that implementation of the bill would cost the federal government $47 million through 2016, to cover enforcement costs and the hiring and training of 22 new special agents and 26 support staff. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill, but Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) placed a hold on it.

SOPA TRENDING RISING ON SEARCH RESULTS

The PROTECT IP Act is a re-write of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which failed to pass in 2010. A similar House version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced on October 26, 2011. Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011; United States Senate Bill S.968) is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to “rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods”, especially those registered outside the U.S. The bill was introduced on May 12, 2011 by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and 11 initial bipartisan co-sponsors. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that implementation of the bill would cost the federal government $47 million through 2016, to cover enforcement costs and the hiring and training of 22 new special agents and 26 support staff. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill, but Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) placed a hold on it.

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SOPA

The PROTECT IP Act is a re-write of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which failed to pass in 2010. A similar House version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced on October 26, 2011.
[Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act]

Issa: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Kills Innovation, Internet Freedom, Tech Jobs

Source: americancensorship.org/infographic.html


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