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"Adobe Connect, WebEX, GoToMeeting, LiveMeeting, Skype, Elluminate (what am I missing?), these web conferencing tools are not just for meeting at a distance.
Here are 4 reasons why you should hold more of your meetings online, even if everyone meeting works together on the same campus:"
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"Crown Princess Masako of Japan turns 47 on 9 December. It'd be nice to be able to say that she's celebrating her 47th birthday, but these days she doesn't seem to have a lot to celebrate. A statement issued by palace doctors to mark the Princess's birthday said that she was slowly recovering from the stress-induced illness that's plagued her since 2002, identified by palace spokesmen as adjustment disorder, but that her physical and mental condition is still unstable. The palace has been saying the same thing for years - that she's slowly recovering from a condition they identify as adjustment disorder, a condition that by definition is acute rather than chronic, not lasting for more than six months. Whatever she's suffering from, it pretty clearly isn't adjustment disorder."
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"No, I'm not talking about Osama, but about my reactions below to a New Yorker article about quantum computing--reactions whose writing was rudely interrupted by last night's news. Of all the possible times in the past decade to get him, they had to pick one that would overshadow an important Shtetl-Optimized discussion about complexity theory, the Many-Worlds Interpretation, and the popularization of science? Well, I guess I'll let it slide."
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