Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences
Google TechTalks
August 8, 2006
B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. has been a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970. He is currently seeking ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices and Western science to advance the study of the mind. He is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies ( http://sbinstitute.com ).
ABSTRACT
Galileo took a seminal role in launching the first revolution in the physical sciences, and a key element in this revolution was the rigorous, sophisticated observation of physical phenomena. Darwin likewise launched a revolution in the life sciences on the basis of decades of meticulous observation of biological phenomena. Although…
Duration : 1:2:31
Google Earth Outreach Conference
Google announces a new initiative called Google Earth Outreach at an event held at Google NYC. Features speeches from Elliot Schrage, Google Vice President for Global Communications & Public Affairs; John Hanke, Director of Google Earth & Maps; Jane Goodall, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute; Kathy Bushkin Calvin, Executive Vice President, United Nations Foundation; and Edward Wilson, President and CEO, Earthwatch.
Duration : 0:59:49
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Social Media Revolution in the Workplace (IITMAANA Event)
Google Tech Talk
February 24, 2010
ABSTRACT
Social Media Revolution in the Workplace (IITMAANA Event)
Social Media has revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate with friends and gather information from the web. The revolution is now making its way into the workplace.
The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.
Collaborative technologies liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Collaboration allows the collective intelligence of many to bubble up to the surface, translating to a competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation and productivity.
In this panel we chat with industry experts and vendors to explore topics such as:
*Who is driving the adoption of collaborative tools?
*What are the biggest barriers to adoption and how does one prove the business value/ROI around social computing?
*How does one be a better evangelist with their organization?
Panelists:
Anshu Sharma – Vice President, Product Management, Salesforce
Greg D’Alesandre – Product Manager (Google Wave), Google
Oliver Marks – Founding Partner, Sovos Group
Raju Vegesna – Evangelist, Zoho
Matt Tucker – CTO ,co-founder, Jive Software
Ross Mayfield – Charman, President & Co-founder, Socialtext
Moderator: Paige Finkelman – Business Development, Enterprise 2.0
Duration : 1:41:47
Learn how to use the vast Google Network including TV, audio and print to reach your target audiences and increase traffic.
Nikesh Arora, President, EMEA Operations Google, talks about the shifts taking place in the worlds of advertising and marketing at an IESE Continuous Education session in Madrid
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