Comme chaque année, Sustainly vient de publier son « Social Media and Sustainability Index ». Comme l’an dernier, ce classement dévoile les 100 entreprises qui s’investissent le mieux dans leur communication Développement Durable sur les réseaux sociaux. Retour sur ce nouveau rapport. Voir l'article...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Building the Goodwill of Networks
Simon Terry, 2016/04/11

I'm not sure exactly what to make of this post. Sure, the author points to a series of problems that plague network behaviour, from the problem of noise, to requests for information that can be found in the manual, to unclear requests, to people making requests without providing responses of their own. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Instagram changes cause growing backlash among posters
BBC News, 2016/03/30

There's an interesting lesson to be found in the backlash to changes being implemented by Instagram. The photo sharing site has traditionally employed a reverse-chronological listing of recent photos. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People
Sarah Cooper, The Cooper Review, 2016/03/29

If this article is accurate (and there's no real reason to think it isn't) then it speaks against the idea of career preparation based simply on competencies. More...

By Paul Clifton. The ‘net has been full of debate about the presumed passing of Twitter for several months now – not only in the geek sheets, but also in mainstream hardcopy magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Statesman, and even on Aunty ABC Radio’s Life Matters (where the most level-headed commentary came from QUT’s Prof Jean Burgess). More...

By Jeannie Rea. The NTEU has received a request to support the Academics for Peace (https://twitter.com/BarisAkademik)Twitter campaign #Freedom4Academics4Peace to raise our voices in support of academics arrested and held in solitary confinement in Turkey. More...