Academy of Management Conference Upcoming Live-Blogging
The Academy of Management 2010 conference is coming up in a week, and I plan to give live updates of presentations.
The Scienceblogs Scandal as a Study of Organizational Culture
Recently, a corporate scandal erupted at ScienceBlogs, an invitation-only blogging network run by Seed Media Group that is designed to promote popular science. The open nature of the Internet gives us an opportunity to peer deep into this organization for some lessons of our own.
Advertisements That Customize Themselves by Scanning You
Daily Nation reports that billboards in Japan are being fitted with cameras that can scan the gender and age of people looking at them.
The Personality of Immersion in Video Games and Virtual Worlds
A recent study by Weibel, Wissmath and Mast (2010) examines the Big Five personality correlates of immersion in virtual environments, finding that high Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, and Extraversion are positively related to the tendency to be immersed.
Your Genetics Incline You to Respond to Surveys
Genetics play a role in predicting if you’ll respond to surveys. Over 1000 twin pairs were contacted through the Minnesota Twin Registry, and it was found that 45% of the variance in survey response behavior could be explained by genetic differences.
Removing Secret Behavioral Marketing from WordPress’ AddToAny
I occasionally talk here about privacy concerns, usually with an emphasis on protecting privacy, so imagine my surprise when I discovered this blog was without my knowledge using behavioral marketing – a targeted advertising tracking mechanism was embedded within it! This has since been repaired. So that the same doesn’t happen to you, I thought it would be useful to share my experience combating this menace. If you don’t run a blog, you can safely skip this one.