This is a blog about how to use Decision Model Notation

Going DMN-tal | Nick Broom – musings of an analyst.

1000 Awesome Things | A time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things by Neil Pasricha.

Some strange things to appreciate instead of thinking about the Flood.

62 Top Startup Accelerators in the US, Canada & Beyond | Emergent By Design. and lots of other useful links

Calgary company that provides backup in the cloud

ebackupinc – YouTube.

The Canadian Cloud Council canadiancloudcouncil.ca site is built in Drupal.  I, being a very primitive developer (haven’t coded hard in probably 15 years!) built one of my little websites somanysites.com in WordPress and another grokiam.com in WebSite Tonight.

Site builder shootout: Drupal vs. Joomla vs. WordPress – Computerworld.

I heard a great CBC radio documentary about the changes that are happening in Education. Education is the most important building block of a society and it will be changing with digital technologies.  Digital/social media will transform education as it is changing other things like business, communities, information sharing, and overall connectedness.

Udacity – 21st Century University.
Khan Academy
Coursera
Massive Open Online Course

Here’s a good overview of how to approach cloud privacy

http://www.technologylawcanada.com/2012/09/04/cloud-computing-some-practical-suggestions-for-resolving-issues-part-1-of-2/

http://www.technologylawcanada.com/2012/09/10/cloud-computing-some-practical-suggestions-for-resolving-issues-part-2-of-2/

Here’s a conference about Canadian Privacy

Privacy Law & Compliance – September 20-21, 2012 – Toronto – Overview | The Canadian Institute.

Now that you have a social strategy, what metrics should you use?

Metrics, Metrics On The Wall, Who’s The Vainest Of Them All? Actionable vs. Vanity.

Very helpful for thinking about Social Media strategy.

hootsuite-whitepaper-8-tips-for-social-business.pdf (application/pdf Object).

OK, I had this great idea for a scalable company and found that this company already exists.  They have a patent on the idea.  But they only operate in the US.
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