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Vision

There are millions of lifelong learners across the globe who do not have access to the world’s greatest institutions of higher learning, but do have an Internet connection. The Faculty Project showcases incredible Professors in an unprecedented series of free online courses that will dynamically engage this audience.

Educators

The Professors involved have been recognized by their students and peers for their excellence in teaching or have shown a remarkable talent for educating. They are intelligent, diligent and care about their students. Most importantly, they are interested in sharing their knowledge to more people and creating a lasting mark in the community.

Structure

The Faculty Project will be launched in early 2012 and the courses will be taught through online video, PowerPoint, PDF, and articles on Udemy.com. Each course will have a discussion board where learners can interact with each other and the instructor. The content will be available for free, forever, to anyone who wishes to consume it.

Very cool!

AKRON, Ohio and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Knotice, a leading provider of direct digital marketing software and services, and Gigya, the #1 social choice for websites, today announced a strategic partnership that will transform the way marketers can leverage permission-based Facebook data across addressable, direct digital marketing channels.

Through the partnership, marketers can seamlessly fuse the wealth of permission-based social identity information (such as Facebook likes, check-ins, and interests) with existing customer data and cross-channel activity (such as purchase history, clicks, and search activity) within Knotice’s on-demand software platform Concentri®. The Knotice-Gigya partnership allows social data collected and stored within Gigya’s Identity Management Platform to be blended with the customer profile and activity data collected and stored via Knotice’s proprietary Universal Profile Management system, opening the ability to drive actionable analytics and stronger cross-channel execution based on more relevant information.

This allows for a truly unified view of consumers across channels, which directly supports the findings and recommendations of Forrester Research Inc.’s recent report “The New Messaging Mandate” (January 2012) in which Knotice is featured.

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he says. “That sucks.

The term platform is overloaded with meanings in the technology industry and this is particularly the case in mobile telecommunications where it has been used to describe carrier infrastructure, hardware devices, operating systems and most recently, a commercial framework for publishing and selling content.

For some time mobile operators have tried to work out how to provide service delivery platforms (SDP). They have been pushed from one end by the vested interests of their telecoms equipment providers and from the other by falling voice call revenues and the need to build new lines of business around data. While this infrastructure is as critical as other choices as to how networks are plumbed, its functional differences have little direct impact on end subscribers.

Excellent perspective from the UK on where the mobile industry is headed.

Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.

I agree. Although today you need fewer resources than in the past to get started.

At dinner parties and business meetings, I’ll frequently ask who has Prime and what they think of it. The number has grown from one or two in seven to three or four out of seven folks over the past five years. My circles tend to be people like you, which is to say more technically sophisticated (and good looking).

Prime is at a tipping point.

Knotice, which offers digital marketing software and services, is the latest tech company to open an office here. The list includes well-known companies like Facebook and Zynga. But Seattle also is attracting smaller companies, such as New Zealand-based GreenButton, which recently opened an office in Seattle.

So wonderful to see Knotice named along with these other great tech brands.

As Maria Robinson once said, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”  Nothing could be closer to the truth.  But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back.

Thanks to Ron Copfer for sharing this on Facebook.