Second Life Being Used in Medical Training
A report has come out about various medical schools running in Second Life, where students can participate in a wide variety of simulations of real medical scenarios.
Best Buy Hired Based on Twitter Followers
Hot on the heels of Montana wanting to know what’s in your Facebook profile is Best Buy requiring 250 Twitter followers to be considered for a marketing position.
GRE: The Personality Test
There is much to consider in the traditional graduate school application, and ETS thinks it has the perfect supplement: a standardized personality test.
Montana Job Applications Required FaceBook Password
Until a few days ago in Bozeman, Montana, if you passed the initial hurdles during the selection process for a city job, you were only provisionally hired. Full hiring was contingent on the selection officers judging you as a clean slate after giving them your social networking IDs and passwords, including at least Facebook and MySpace.
Scientific Research in Organizations
What is scientific research and how is it used in real organizations? What barriers are there to the use of ivory tower research in the real world?
Final Blog Restructuring
Personal posts have been migrated to a new blog: neoacademic.com/home. This should be the last major organizational change for a while. Details within.