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Hike: How Free Offline Messaging Works

Origin Learning

With the coming of affordable 2G and 3G networks for mobiles , it is like we have been hardwired to Instant Messaging (IM) on our phones. In fact, IM applications have evolved to provide much more than simple text-and-emoticon messaging. The way messaging works without internet within Hike is interesting.

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Part 3: Creating Trust in Your Social Learning Environment

OpenSesame

This is particularly true because I work in a room full of software developers, and their conversations, on a good day, sound like German to me. If you don’t work in the same office with your colleagues, encourage them to use Skype, Google Talk or another instant messaging client to keep in touch and access their coworkers’ assistance.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning

Learning Visions

Im a linear reader in recovery and have been actively learning how to skim books and not feel guilty about it. Although Im not in active instructional design mode for any projects right now, I did jot a bunch of ideas. those born between 1991-2000), Im a bit of an ape (no offense to apes, mind you). Do They? ) No boomers here.

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6 Effective Ways To Increase Employee Productivity

eFront

It might sound obvious, but the key to ensure that you’re getting more of something (in our case, employee productivity) is to measure how much you’re getting in the first place. Heck, even checking our work-related email can take anything from two hours to half a day.