En Colombia, como en la mayoría de países, se dificulta la atención a la población discapacitada. Existen 2.9 millones de colombianos con algún tipo de discapacidad. Solo el 15.5% de la población discapacitada trabaja actualmente y el ministerio de nuevas tecnologías cree que estos datos indican un problema que debe ser abordado. La tecnología, en […]
Big Data has won. For years we’ve been hearing about all the things Big Data would do to make our lives better. Then, around two years ago, people started predicting that Small Data would be the next Big Thing. But now, in 2015, we see the President of the United States appointing a US Chief […]
This year 133.000 Colombian school children will benefit from the new extended school schedule. The program is intended to improve student understanding of fundamental areas such as language, math and science. The Colombian government is taking this initiative to strengthen educational practices by increasing the length of the school day. President Santos and the ministry […]
Este año 133.000 niños se benefician con la Jornada única escolar que promete fortalecer áreas fundamentales como lenguaje, matemáticas y ciencias. Como parte de la iniciativa del gobierno de Colombia para fortalecer las prácticas educativas, se aumentará el tiempo dedicado a áreas fundamentales como lenguaje, matemáticas y ciencias, implementando la jornada única. El presidente Santos […]
Meaningful family involvement in schools can make a huge difference for a child’s learning and for driving improvement in the school system as a whole. Extensive research has shown that students with involved parents have higher attendance, social skills, grades, test scores, and graduation rates. We learned a lot more about this topic when […]
We expect computers to know the answers to questions. In fact, many of us grow frustrated when a computer doesn’t seem to understand what we’re asking. We Google phrases and we get results that are pretty astounding, really. Those of us who grew up watching Star Trek are familiar with the computer’s supporting role. You […]
Recently a dark wave went through the search engine optimization universe. Established practices are being uprooted and the tried and true methods are being questioned–again. This time it’s one of the oldest techniques, the time-tested practice of acquiring high-quality in-bound links. While we don’t believe the threat is serious, at present, we do think this […]
Google just rolled out a new feature, one that favors long-form original content. If you Google a broad topic, you may see–at the bottom of the page, a block of results labelled “In-Depth Articles.” According to the Google post introducing the feature: “To understand a broad topic, sometimes you need more than a quick answer. […]
Let’s say a friend of yours self-publishes a book on Amazon. She asks you to buy it, rate, maybe even gives you a copy. Naturally, she also hopes you’ll read it. Which you totally plan to do, as soon as you have a little time. Meanwhile, though, she needs a few good reviews on Amazon […]
Two recent Facebook innovations are intended to make Facebook status updates more independent of both the networks and the platform. One is the hashtag, introduced on June 12th. The word hashtag describes this symbol “#,” but it also means the letters or word following that symbol on a social media post. For instance, if I […]
Until recently, the process of searching for information on the web meant you entered some kind of search phrase into a search engine. The search engine pulled up a list of possible results, usually ten per page, and you browsed through to find the one that had the best answer. Given how much better this […]
When you go to a personal trainer, you don’t expect her to just do something to make you more fit. You are asking for her to challenge you, lead you in the right direction, and to instruct you in the proper techniques. But you have to do what she says. This is how the core […]
Massive Online Open Courses, or MOOCs, are hitting a pretty major turning point right about now. As we get ready for the next school year, MOOCs are receiving a lot of attention—not all of it good, from educators and innovators looking at how higher education will fare over the next few years. On one hand, […]
This post on the Clovest website, by Clovest founder Karan Jain, does a great job of expressing why we are so happy to work out of Affinity Lab. He mentions Mobility owner Sean Perkins, along with some of the people who are often part of the Mobility team: It was Sam, offering us help with […]
You can get yourself into a lot of trouble trying to save money on a website, but it isn’t really the price that causes the problem. Plenty of small businesses have launched themselves and done all they needed to do online with a free or low-cost website. What doesn’t work is trying to pass off […]
Mobility Labs focuses on helping organizations meet their goals using digital and online tools and resources. Every industry and sector is experiencing a wave of transition, as existing tasks migrate online and now possibilities open up. Today, we’re looking at one of the areas we have found especially rewarding—education. This introduces an ongoing topic that […]
The ongoing expansion of the Internet to every corner of the globe can be seen in high-end projects such as Google’s Project Loon, that is using high altitude balloons to broadcast Internet cheaply to places it doesn’t currently reach. Though currently experimental, this has the potential to greatly expand the number of people online. Meanwhile, […]
As a veteran-owned business, Mobility-Labs is especially happy to wish all our clients and friends a happy 4th of July! Here’s to all who served and fought to make freedom possible, and to those who still sit on the front lines, enduring hardship and hostility because they feel this country is still worth their sacrifice. […]
We attended two hackathons over the past two weekends. In each case, Mobility was part of a larger team dedicated to solving a specific problem in a very short timeline. We found the hackathons to be very different, however. The first weekend was the National Day of Civic Hacking, and was held here at the […]
Hurricane Sandy demonstrated how even companies that depend on their websites for revenue can go down during natural disasters. Major websites that went down included The Huffington Post, Gawker, Jezebel, and Gizmodo. If large websites managed by skilled IT staff can’t stay up during natural disasters, are small businesses doomed? I say no.
Building great websites does not happen overnight or after a single meeting…that doesn’t mean we don’t try to make it seem that way. Successful projects happen because we align purpose, audience, content, and narrative with the resources available. These items should be discovered early and refined through the entire project.
Most web content articles focus on what you should be doing, but almost as important is what you should not be doing. Some ingrained habits are as detrimental to your website as not posting content. Here are some of the worst offenders: 1. PDFs: First and foremost, stop locking data up in a PDF. I […]
One of the first methods users employ for more performance is to upgrade antennas. Here is an overview of some of the different types of antennas: The most common is an omni-directional antenna, which comes with just about every WiFi router or Access Point on the market. The default SoHo Omni-directional antennas transmits a signal […]
Wireless-N is rapidly overtaking G as the the standard for new implementations. 802.11N offers higher speed, better security and longer range. Tips for a successful wireless-N implementation: Buy the right equipment. An inexpensive AP from Staples may be fine for home or small office, but for anything over 5 users it is worth purchasing a […]
This post is the companion piece to the brown bag lunch presentation I did at Affinity Lab today.
According to a report out of The NPD’s Connected Intelligence group, 65% of tablet users are using Wi-Fi only. This means that 90% of tablet users are using Wi-Fi some of the time. These are consumers but this applies to enterprises because the reason consumers are using Wi-Fi is the lower costs associated with Wi-Fi connections. […]