Heres my big question, though: I wonder whether Apple had the SDK as part of its plans all along, and merely changed its mind about whether to go public with it in response to the criticism -- or were they truly debating the merits of opening up the platform, and thus reluctant to say anything until they were 100% sure of their plans? "? MORE >>

And the organizational architecture of the private and public sector institutions that were embracing these new Web-based applications had to similarly change , in order to translate these technology advances into productivity and quality improvements. The technology advances were absolutely necessary, - but not sufficient.  MORE >>

The number of countries that grew at three percent a year in 2005, 2006, 2007, was 120.  So that is the change in the world that we are witnessing, and of course, nowhere do you see it more clearly than in China.” There is a huge change underway, from a rural, agricultural China to an urban China. Today, that number is zero.  MORE >>

IBM I only briefly mentioned how other organizations are adopting these tools in a big way - The Wall Street Journal - June 18 2007 - social networking at IBM 26,000 registered blogs. Moderation - On many Wiki software packages you can require approval for posting changes. You can also limit what pages can be changed. Tools? MORE >>

From Col - see also Beer, Clark, Jones, Indicators of Engagement , which has much of the same content Most of the research into measuring student engagement prior to the widespread adoption of online, or web based classes, has concentrated on the simple measure of attendance (Douglas & Alemanne, 2007). 2008)." Table 1. Engagement - how? MORE >>