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thomas n. burg – on social media and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

people are strange

and things can change quickly. I’m back at permalink (actually never left it) since my partner could never agree on my leave and we were not able to sign the contracts.
Strange feeling to be back and to collect all those loose ends that were left. Not always the good ones. I’m talking about the Verein (association, club).

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Slides: Social Skills

Just back home from the conference. Social Software ( ) seems to be a real hot buzzword these days. Social Software equals collaboration ( ) for the majority of attendees I dare to claim. That means you’ll miss 80% of the concept I’d say.
But back to the slides. Here they areSocialSkills_Tagging.pdf.

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we need the flow! Now!

Impressive wording for what I conceive of – after long-time inhibitors will fall asleep – prerequisites of framing a world you’ like to work and live in – if you read those paragraphs inversley. Providing the right framework will lead to innovation through creativity and productivity: flow! Software – we create -can help – I’m deeply convinced and dedicated to work hard to proof it.

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Social Software @ Viennese Medical School

medical  universityI’m invited at the Medical University of Vienna ( ) to talk about “Social Software, Webtechnologies and their Value for Information- and Knowledge-management” eventually demoing our application NEXTspace.

They have a bulk load of systems running but nothing to add value to what is of importance to researchers and students.