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Academics

Think Twice Before Pressing the “Send” Button to Send an Email to Professor Galloway

by Jean-Francois Belisle on March 4, 2010

in Academics, Personal Branding

Like most people, I look at my e-mail box several times a day and answer my emails by order of priority. I am generally efficient as I classify my emails according to methods shown in best-seller books such as the “Hamster Revolution”. However, every once in a while I receive one of these impersonal emails [...]

Tagged as: branding, Email, Galloway, New York University, NYU, personal, send, story

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Top 10 Posts on This Blog and an Overview of the Ranking Phenomenon

by Jean-Francois Belisle on October 28, 2009

in Academics, Ergonomy and Rich Interface Design, Personal Branding, Psychology, ranking

This super cool blog has been online for 6 months, and for this half-year life anniversary, I decided to highlight the top 10 posts on this blog based on unique pageviews. So here they are:
1. The 10 Most Hi-Tech Cities in the World
2. Canada in the Worldwide Top 3 for Internet Penetration Rate
3. Demystifying Viral [...]

Tagged as: copywriting, memory activation, Psychology, ranking, top 10

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A Reply to Mashable – 5 Reasons Why the Cost of Education Will Not Be Zero in the Future

by Jean-Francois Belisle on July 30, 2009

in Academics, Social Networks, Technology and Society

A recent debate concerning the impact of technology on the cost of education took place on the Mashable blog (a blog I place in my Top 5 when it comes to social media information). In this intriguing article, the author argued that technology was driving the cost of education to zero, citing as examples the [...]

Tagged as: cost, debate, Education, free, information, mashable, Michael Spence, MIT open courseware, tuition fees, university of the people

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