Data Mining

Is anyone using Leximancer as a knowledge management or data mining tool in their org? And if so how are you using it?

http://www.leximancer.com/

After the recent scuffles between tech blogger Robert Scoble and Facebook over data portability and privacy, comes the announcement that Facebook - along with Google - has now joined the DataPortability Workgroup - (announced yesterday by Ben Metcalfe, the DataPortability founder, on his blog).

The optimistic vision for open social networks, where users will be able to share content freely across social networking sites, seems to be getting closer. Google and Facebook are, obviously, two of the biggest holders of social and personal information on the internet - on the one hand, they have enormous user populations clamouring for this facility, on the other, they presumably have a whole bunch of powerful advertisers and companies dying to "work with" all those rich user profiles.

In this hour and ten minute long podcast from the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing, we hear from Fred H. Cate, Distinguished Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, with a speech entitled, Privacy and Security in Higher Education: Filling the Policy Vacuum .

Academic Analytics: The Uses of Management Information and Technology in Higher Education is a new study from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) on the long-term outcomes of administrative technology implementation in higher education. Key findings and a roadmap from the study are publicly available; the full report is available to ECAR subscribers and through purchase.