UBM Live and UBM Tech launch new online community to explore how to transform business with big data - November 8, 2012
UBM Live and UBM Tech, the UBM businesses behind TFM&A and InformationWeek, have announced the launch of Big Data Republic, a community for those dealing with transforming their businesses with big data. As the world experiences an… Read More
Pearson announces Project Blue Sky, a cloud-based content service - November 7, 2012
Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, has announced Project Blue Sky, a cloud-based, content service that provides instructors with easy access to Open Educational Resources (OER). Pearson is partnering with Silicon Valley non-profit Gooru, a search engine for learning materials, and will leverage… Read More
Seventy two institutions join beta programme for cloud-based learning object repository from Blackboard - November 7, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc., US, has announced that seventy two institutions have joined the company in a beta programme for xpLor, a cloud-based learning object repository that will be the industry's first to support multiple learning management systems (LMS). The beta is… Read More
UBM TechWeb and UBM DeusM launch new online community for IT decision makers - November 5, 2012
Business information provider UBM TechWeb, US, and UBM DeusM have announced the launch of Enterprise Conversation, a new online community for IT decision makers looking to derive the greatest value and innovation from their technology and infrastructure investments. Enterprise Conversation will… Read More
Agriculture Sciences Category added to science social network ScienceAlerts - October 26, 2012
ScienceAlerts.com, a social network featuring information in the basic and applied sciences of biology, agriculture, environment, forestry, geography and health, has added the Agriculture Sciences Category with over 72,000 articles from over 350 scientific agriculture publishing sources. The members of ScienceAlerts monitor 5,718 journals and… Read More
Mendeley database handles over 100 million calls per month - August 23, 2012
UK-based start-up Mendeley has announced that the number of queries to its database from external applications has surpassed 100 million per month. More than 240 applications received for research collaboration, measurement, visualisation, semantic markup and discovery - all of which have been developed in the past… Read More
Biotechnology and Ecology sections added to ScienceIndex under Biological Sciences - August 13, 2012
ScienceIndex.com, a biotechnology and ecology sciences social network, has now included the two new categories of Biotechnology and Ecology under the field of Biological Sciences. While the Biotechnology section covers the utilisation of bacteria, yeasts and other biological substances for industrial and manufacturing processes, the Ecology… Read More
New home for Nature Network blogs on SciLogs.com - July 27, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced the launch of SciLogs.com, a new English language blogging network for scientists and science communicators. Nature Network bloggers will be amongst the first to take up their new home on the Wordpress-based site. SciLogs.com is hosted by Spektrum… Read More
ScienceAlerts.com adds Environmental Sciences category - July 6, 2012
ScienceAlerts.com, a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content, has announced that the latest addition to this website is the Environmental Sciences Category. The new category currently features more than 27,000 articles selected from over 150 scientific environment publishing sources. ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental… Read More
EllisDon, Reed Construction Data weekly launch column about social media - May 29, 2012
General contractor EllisDon, Canada, and Reed Construction Data, the publisher of Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce, have joined forces to educate readers about the ins and outs of social media, specifically in the construction industry. Entitled 'Social Media Masterclass', EllisDon's Web and Social Media… Read More
