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Grammatical error?

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Grammatical error?, originally uploaded by Micheal Axelsen.

I got this error message from Word today. I thought it was quite ironic. In case you are wondering, it says “there are too many grammatical or spelling errors in this document to continue displaying them.”

Thank you, Word. I wasn’t really looking for editorial comment.

2009 Speaking Year Starts – Pizza and a Speaking Competition!

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Hi y’all.  (sorry, thought that might sound fairly relaxed after the break!).

First Rostrum Speaking Club meeting of the year is next Wednesday (4th February 2009) at the Indooroopilly Library meeting rooms.  Jutta and I thought we would start the year with a fairly relaxed and simple, yet fun, activity of a Pizza Impromptu Speaking Competition.

Essentially – we’ll order in pizza and have an impromptu speaking competition (3 minutes preparation), with senior & junior divisions, winner takes all (there will be prizes).  Please RSVP and let us know whether you’re able to attend, whether you’re able to bring a friend, and what topping you’d like.  The club is paying for pizza – non-financial members can look guilty while they munch .

This year our speaking is going to run in a six-weekly cycle:

  1. Week 1:  Fun activity, little preparation involved.  These would be good nights to bring people along to introduce them to Rostrum a bit – although any night’s a good night for a guest.
  2. Week 2:  Themed Speech Topics
  3. Week 3:  Alphabet Soup topics (e.g. ‘Eggnog, Excellent, & Egalitarian’ – no that isn’t one of them).
  4. Week 4:  Themed Speech Topics
  5. Week 5:  Training Night!
  6. Week 6:  PDP Speeches for All

And then back to week 1.

Please RSVP.  Your  Speaking Year – and Pizza – awaits.  All guests welcome – see the flyer attached.

Thanks:  Micheal Axelsen

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Propositions of the Theory of Technology Dominance

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My research at the University of Queensland is examining the theory of technology dominance, as set out in Arnold & Sutton (1998).

This theory sets out to explain three things:

  1. Factors that determine the likelihood that a decision maker will choose to rely on an available decision aid
  2. Conditions under which a decision maker using an intelligent decision aid is susceptible to dominance by the technology
  3. Long-term impact of intelligent decision aid use on de-skilling domain experts and impeding epistemological evolution

This theory has eight essential propositions:

  • Proposition One: At low to moderate level of experience, there is a negative relationship between task experience and reliance on a decision aid
  • Proposition Two: Positive relationship between task complexity and reliance on a decision aid
  • Proposition Three: Positive relationship between decision aid familiarity and reliance on the decision aid
  • Proposition Four: Positive relationship between cognitive fit and reliance on the decision aid.

Further, the theory, relating to the susceptibility of a user to dominance by technology, sets out two propositions:

  • Proposition Five: When the expertise of the user and intelligent decision aid are mismatched, there is a negative relationship between the user’s expertise level and the risk of poor decision making
  • Proposition Six: When the expertise level of the user and intelligent decision aid are matched, there is a positive relationship between reliance on the aid and improved decision making

And finally, the theory of technology dominance considers the long-term effects of dominance by intelligent technologies through the following two propositions:

  • Proposition Seven: There is a positive relationship between continued use of an intelligent decision aid and the de-skilling of knowledge workers’ abilities for the domain in which the aid is used
  • Proposition Eight: There is a negative relationship between the broad-based, long term use of an intelligent decision aid in a given problem domain and the growth in knowledge and advancement of the domain

Diagrammatically:

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An illiterate school shirt

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This tag is from my son’s new school shirt, purchased this week. I find it ironic that this
school shirt has a label that has at least three elementary grammatical
and spelling errors in it. As previously established, it’s a private (& somewhat expensive!) school.

I know it’s not the school’s fault – they don’t write the labels, and you’re hardly about to send it back because of a label that is simply torn off and thrown away, and it probably doesn’t matter.

But presumably someone checked the label at some point. Ack! Standards today!

Feedback from Facebook, MySpace, YouTube & Flickr

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Today I received feedback from the presentation I gave back in October 2008 (!) on the presentation ‘Facebook, MySpace, YouTube & Flickr – managing and leveraging the business impact of social networking sites’.

Again going for that whole transparency thing.

Feedback was very good – technical content rating was a 4 (Very Good) and presentation material rating was a 4 (Very Good).

The average is suspiciously round so it makes me think that not many people completed the evaluation, but there you go.

The presentation is available in an earlier post, but here is the slideshare:

Business Impact of Online Social Networking

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: online social)

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