Topic: Podcasts
What's going on behind the scenes at The Conversations Network? Our entire senior management team are on hand to bring you up-to-date: Phil Windley (IT Conversations), Steve Williams (CHI Conversations), Bernadette Clavier (Social Innovation Conversations), Paul Figgiani (Senior Audio Engineer), Sheryl Coe (Senior Web Editor) and Doug Kaye (Executive Director).
A pre-checked option can greatly influence choice, as preference can be constructed just by changing a few lines of HTML code. For policymakers and marketers, default settings are strategically designed to get to the desired outcome. In this audio lecture sponsored by Stanford's Center for Social Innovation, Columbia Graduate School of Business professor Eric Johnson demonstrates how defaults are a powerful and inexpensive tool that can be applied to promote prosocial actions and good behavior.
The human perception of web response time can be manipulated, says Yahoo! engineer Stoyan Stefanov. He talks about the subjective experience of time as experienced by Internet users. This understanding can help developers who are trying to "make the page feel faster, although it isn't." Some techniques and tricks for web developers can minimize frustration and enhance the browsing experience for end users.
Technological progress has fostered new opportunities for teaching and learning, inside and outside of the classroom. From Sesame Street to netbooks to social networks, the students of today are using technology in numerous ways to enrich their learning experience and prepare them for the challenges of tomorrow. This panel of educational entrepreneurs from the NewSchools Summit explores the ideas, outcomes, and possibilities that result from technology-enabled solutions that transform a student's approach to learning.
Challenging the status quo of the current state of our school systems, those at the top in Washington speak on federal education reform at the 2010 NewSchools Summit. In a conversation with NewSchools CEO Ted Mitchell, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor Congressman George Miller, discuss proposals to dramatically transform public education by scaling the impact of social innovations and applying result-oriented approaches.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Stanford University professor and author, Cliff Nass, about his new book, The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, and his theory that links people's interactions with computers and their social and professional life.
Lili Cheng and her team at Microsoft's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Lab take the challenge of making social networking more engaging while increasing productivity. Cheng, in this recording from the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (May, 2010), demonstrates the various social networking tools developed at the Fuse Lab designed to create a worthwhile social experience.
Join best-selling author Steven Berlin Johnson as he discusses the changing face of online journalism, one in which citizen journalists and bloggers are news gatherers and information curators. Both journalists and techies alike are providing new ways to share and consume content, and creating rich relations between consumers and providers of information. Members of this new media are also required to wear many hats, from local news reporter to database administrator.
Instead of a conference call, it's a private podcast direct from The Conversations Network's Executive Director, Doug Kaye, to our Donors, Patrons and Benefactors. Topics include: an update on our traffic and membership, the state of SpokenWord.org, and our proposed plans for SpokenWord.org to become the open alternative to the iTunes podcast directory.
The first SpokenWord.org town-hall meeting conference call was held on August 27, 2009. Included in the discussion: a review of the most-requested new features, a discussion of the new APIs and new strategic directions for the site.
