Adventures in Corporate Education

or, how my graduate studies are affecting my job in corporate education

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Ed Tech – Using VMware for educational labs

February 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I have been getting very geeky about education theory, because that is what I am learning in grad school. But sometimes I look at the posts of some of the other EMC bloggers and I feel a little left out of the techie side of things.
So this post is about how I’m using VMware to [...]

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What do you do for a living?

December 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

I shared a link on Twitter today that I got from the Systers list. The link was to this Dr. Dobbs article, which has since been edited. Basically it’s an article about gnuplot, and there was a link in the first paragraph to a naked lady.
Gah.
I shared the link and pointed out that antics like [...]

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EMC is hosting Boston’s 9th Social Media Breakfast

September 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

EMC (the company that I work for) is sponsoring Boston Social Media Breakfast #9. If you are in the New England area, you should come out! The last one I went to left me very energized!
Here’s the agenda:
SMB9 Theme: Starting Social Media and Community-Building Programs with a Reluctant Executive
SMB9 will feature three, eight-minute presentations on [...]

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Does marketing own social media?

September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

In the spirit of the CCK08 theme of the week (Networks) I must ask about a roadblock I am seeing in involving the masses in social media.
Does marketing own social media? The social media groups I am involved with are all run by marketers. The marketing group in my company are the early adopters of [...]

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Can Second Life be used as a reliable Corporate Training Tool?

September 15th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Today, I set up a demonstration of Second Life for some of my senior management. I signed up for a conference on how to use Second Life for business, and went through some hoops with our IT department to get IT to open up the firewall for me.
It did not turn out well.
I had a [...]

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