Category «Internet»

Facebook & Carnegie Mellon University COVID-19 Symptom Map

About This Map “This map shows an estimated percentage of people with COVID-19 symptoms, not confirmed cases. Facebook uses aggregated public data from a survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University Delphi Research Center. Facebook doesn’t receive, collect or store individual survey responses. This map is not intended for diagnostic or treatment purposes, or for guidance …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Staying Together While Working Apart

Via LLRX – Staying Together While Working Apart – There is a great deal that newly remote teams can learn from teams that have worked remotely for several years. Nancy Dixon’s recommendations on how to stay connected is a resource for managers, staff and teams, and focuses on social and professional aspects of maintaining effective …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues April 18, 2020

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues April 18, 2020 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Medicine, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Stanford Law School’s COVID-19 Memo Database

Welcome to Stanford Law School’s COVID-19 Memo Database, developed and maintained by the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and Cornerstone Research. “The COVID-19 crisis has generated a complex web of legal, business, and operational challenges that affect the entire economy. Law firms, auditors, and business advisors have responded with thousands of memoranda …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices

Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices – A community resource from the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] Presidential Task Force o​n What Conferences Can Do to Replace Face-to-Face Meetings Version 1.1 — April 13, 2020 Abstract: “Our conference organizing committee just decided to switch our physical conference to online.But the conference is supposed to …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Control Your Zoom Data Routing

Zoom Blog: “Zoom leverages a robust global network to support our users no matter where they are located, natively routing traffic through the meeting zone that will provide you the best performance.  Now, paid Zoom customers will be able to customize which data center regions their account can use for its real-time meeting traffic…Beginning April …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Instagram Founders Launch a Covid-19 Tracker for States

Gizmodo: “Although Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger left the photo sharing app they created in 2018, which is owned by Facebook, they apparently aren’t done working together. Their latest project is Rt.live, a state-by-state covid-19 infection tracker. The tracker calculates Rt, or the effective reproductive rate, which is the virus’ transmission rate a …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Study – Students often do not question online information

PHYS.org: “The Internet and social media are among the most frequently used sources of information today. Students, too, often prefer online information rather than traditional teaching materials provided by universities. According to a study conducted by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Goethe University Frankfurt, students struggle to critically assess information from the Internet and …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media