My friend @JRKnecht shared a hilarious video last night called Hipsters Discussing Cyclocross. This short clip was made on the Xtra-Normal website utilizing its text-to-movie interface. Xtra-Normal is a real time movie making site featuring drag and drop animations, automatic lip syncing and international voices. You can make movies in minutes by simply typing in [...]
Google manages to create new products at a lightning pace. Yeah, some of these stay in beta forever and others don’t seem to be the most useful. However, overall, Google does have a pretty impressive collection of web tools. Recently I was informed of one such tool, the Google Local Business Center, which let’s you [...]
It’s official, our iTunes U site is now live! Be sure to visit often for new educational and public programming materials from the Arab American National Museum. This is just one of many tools we are utilizing, or planning to implement, to help better inform the public on the history and contributions of Arab Americans. [...]
A colleague of mine shared this video with me last week. I’m fascinated by some of the information presented in this short piece. It’s amazing how far social media has evolved over such a short period of time. It’s transforming the ways in which we communicate and interact. It’s changing how we conduct business and [...]
At last, we are about to go live on iTunes U! For the past several months I have been building our institution’s profile. This has been a slow moving, and occasionally annoying, project. However, earlier today I submitted our final edits and we are set to have a public launch on Tuesday, October 20. Before [...]
I’ve slowly been reading Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff’s book, Groundswell: Winning In a World Transformed By Social Technologies (Harvard Business School Press). So far, it’s been a really informative read. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the ways in which social media are transforming our daily lives and [...]