by j2hill | Sep 17, 2017 | Blog Assignments, Randoms, Uncategorised
For some the word gamification is almost a four-letter word: mothers’ eyes roll at the thought of their kids spending hours on iPads, and their teens on PS4s and Xboxes (and little kids too); teachers clench their teeth in frustration at the hours students waste on...
by j2hill | Sep 10, 2017 | Blog Assignments, Randoms
Read any internet marketing book or blog and the basic tenant espoused by the latest ‘thought leader’ is that in order to build your brand and have a sustainable business you need to build your followers. You need to create an environ of supporters, not arbitrary...
by j2hill | Sep 3, 2017 | Blog Assignments, creative commons, Randoms, Uncategorised
Perhaps it is my age, or the changing of the seasons—I always get a bit melancholy at the first signs of fall—but I have been thinking a lot about my youth, specifically the few years leading up the year 2000. I was in my mid-twenties and living on my own. I had an...
by j2hill | Aug 26, 2017 | Blog Assignments, creative commons, Randoms, Uncategorised
“Cognitive Surplus represents the ability of the world’s population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects.” Clay Shirky, TEDTalk According to Shirky we live in a time of ‘cognative surplus’. That, because of modern...
by j2hill | Aug 20, 2017 | Blog Assignments, Randoms, Uncategorised
One Man’s Story is Another Man’s Truth This past week, events occurred that, once again, caused many around the world to reflect and react — not necessarily in that order — and share their values and beliefs all over the Internet. These terrible incidents, the...
by j2hill | Aug 13, 2017 | Blog Assignments, Randoms, Uncategorised
In 1983, political scientist and historian Benedict Anderson coined the phrase Imagined Communities— “communities that are facilitated through communication technology, but that must be imagined, as the members are not capable of meeting each other in real...
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