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'the university library of the future will be sparsely staffed, highly decentralized, and have a physical plant consisting of little more than special collections and study areas.'

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"several interesting online discussions about social networking. Here are a few highlights"

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'The Short List of Horizon topics, four in each Horizon, emerged from the first round of discussions and voting by the 2009 Advisory Board. The links on the right lead to the descriptions of the 12 topics, and also include the wiki-based discussion that fed into the final versions. '

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"While the currents and eddies of emerging technology are complex, it is clear that the Report has been following at least seven metatrends with some regularity:"

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'This initiative focuses on identifying and understanding promising emerging technologies, with the goal of applying them to the creative process and to learning. The initiative is designed to stimulate systematic thinking about the future and its possible impacts, and is a fertile source of new ideas and major projects for the organization, several of which have themselves emerged as NMC initiatives. '

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'The Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression and produces the NMC’s annual Horizon Report. Since the launch of the Horizon Project in March 2002, the NMC has held an ongoing series of conversations and dialogs with hundreds of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, and representatives of leading corporations. '

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"The update adds two major features: search and Twitter trends. Both are smart additions: search is a vital part of Twitter that until now required typing “search.twitter.com” in your browser. You can now save those searches, too. Trends, meanwhile, fosters more engagement by showing you what everyone else is talking about. "

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"Expect the Groundswell to continue, in which people connect to each other -rather than institutions. Consumer adoption of social networks is increasing a rapid pace, brands are adopting even during a recession, so expect the space to rapidly innovate to match this trend."

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'The distinction between traditional and innovative marketing will become significantly more pronounced as the socially driven online communities continue to gain momentum, according to a Forrester Research report released today. "The Future of the Social Web," by Jeremiah Owyang, a Forrester senior analyst, examines the monumental changes that have shaped -- and will continue to impact -- how consumers engage with each other. '

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'For the entrepreneurs still looking to get our attention with the latest social media toys, their pitch may no longer be "come try this, it's new," but instead, "come try this, it helps." Because if there's anything we learned from 2008, it's that social media overload is not sustainable."

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"What’s driving social media today, and how does that help us better understand the direction we’re headed? I see five meta trends that are worth noting..."

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'The report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, "Trends in the Higher Education Labor Force:Identifying Changes in Worker Composition and Productivity," analyzes federal employment data from postsecondary institutions showing that that higher education workforce grew by about half from 1987 to 2007, or a little over a million jobs. More than 60 percent of those jobs were in instructional staff, but the vast majority of those jobs were part time.'

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"What do Wikipedia's readers care about?"

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'There were some skeptics here this morning at , listening to a talk called "Building the Classroom of the Future: From iTunes to Twitter." Some in the audience seemed unconvinced that tools connecting students to the Web, and to one another, would help in that future classroom.' Includes discussion.

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"In the 1930s, the average GPA at American colleges and universities was about 2.35, a number that corresponds with data compiled by W. Perry in 1943. By the 1950s, the average GPA was about 2.52. GPAs took off in the 1960s with grades at private schools

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"A comparison of the number of people being thrown out of work in this recession with that of the severe recession of 1981-82 will indicate why. The peak unemployment rate was higher in that earlier recession than today’s 7.6 percent, largely because the

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"My personal lesson from these recent experiences is that it’s important for associations (and libraries) to understand that every blog post, every tweet, every FF comment is like a letter to the editor or someone standing up in a membership meeting and v

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'Search guru Danny Sullivan likes what he sees, concluding that Twitter actually has something the big search engines lack, even if it's not enough to slay the rivals.
"I'm real big on Twitter search," Sullivan said last week at the Search Marketing Expo

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