Sozioinformatik · 14. Juli 2018
How a good web application induces relaxed accounting and tax declarations _ Today I would like to introduce you to a bird, the madge (or magpie), metaphorically speaking. A madge is in German "die Elster". elster is the acronyme for "Elektronische Steuererklärung", electronical tax declaration. It started in 1996 and today it is one of the best applications I ever met. This counts for both the local option and even more for the web platform elster.de
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Schreiben & Publizieren · 29. Juni 2018
Gaining back the reader _ The English motto of the Book Fair in Frankfurt on Main this year is "Ideas that move the world". A major concern in the book area is, how we can win back the reader. A recently published study offers some ideas ...
Sozioinformatik · 05. Juni 2018
_ Useful material and picked up anecdotes _
Again an example how a good newsletter induces to dive into a topic and to find useful material, inspiring websites, amusing stories and witty anecdotes. This time a newsletter of the chamber of commerce and industry (Industrie- und Handelskammer) Frankfurt am Main contained a link to Jürgen Schmidts' DSGVO-Absurditätenkabinett and this led to this and that. To two of them I want to introduce you right here.
Lernen & Lehren · 02. Juni 2018
... Tackling the risk of drowning _ We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. This sentence is mostly attributed to John Naisbitt, who coined in the 1980ies the term globalization. Edward O. Wilson expressed it in this way: We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. So I restarted my bibliographic work ...
