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Category Archives: SocialMedia

Useful Links: Captions, your college on Facebook, Web Education Rocks at SXSW

Monday, March 8, 2010

The Future will be Captioned at the YouTube blog explains their new auto-captioning function, which works only for English videos at this point.
I saw a presentation from the social media team at Central New Mexico Community College last week. They talked about how they interact with the college’s 25,000 students on Facebook. The rule they [...]

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What response do you want to your blog posts?

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

What do you do when you read a great blog post? Do you comment, do you tweet a link, do you stumble it or bookmark it somewhere like delicious?
I find it depends. Sometimes I really enjoy a post but don’t comment. Instead I do something to support the blogger like tweet or stumble. Sometimes I [...]

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Useful links: Hide that app, SXSWi, ChatRoulette

Monday, February 22, 2010

Since I stopped posting the monthly summaries of what I have published at eHow, I’ve stopped showing you my occasional photo. Here’s a photo, apropos of nothing, that shows the mystical Sandia Mountains on a cloudy February morning.
How to Hide Farmville (and such) on Facebook. OMG, this is the best thing I’ve learned in ages!
Only [...]

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How much sharing is too much?

Friday, February 19, 2010

I’m talking specifically about sharing your whereabouts on social networks. Do you?
The article Please Rob Me: The Dangers of Online Oversharing yesterday got me thinking about this. Sometimes I do promote the fact that I’ll be somewhere, for example if I’m trying to get people to attend something I’m doing at a conference. However, I [...]

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Useful Links: Backchannel, adoption rates, Scrunchup

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome has some thoughts about Twitter in the backchannel at LeWeb 09 in Paris. His ideas are a little different from some of those I’ve mentioned previously in posts about the backchannel. Give a listen. There’s talking on the phone while driving, there’s texting while driving, and now there’s video while driving, [...]

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Useful Links: Transitions and Transforms, the written word, Chrome

Saturday, January 2, 2010

CSS3 transitions and 2D transforms by Opera’s Molly Holzschlag and David Storey is an excellent tutorial explaining these exciting new CSS properties. Browser support isn’t universal yet, but don’t let that stop you from making the most of CSS3.
The word is dead. Long live the word. Study: Rumors of Written-Word Death Greatly Exaggerated at Wired [...]

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What are your 5 favorite tech blogs?

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

If you are reading this blog, you are a tech blog reader. Am I right? I read the tech blogs, too. And I’m wondering if I’m reading all of them that I should be reading. Maybe I’m missing something really good that I need to add. Pick your top 5 tech blogs and tell me [...]

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Useful Links: Textbooks by Sony, Ads by . . . you, A mashup of youness

Monday, December 14, 2009

Blyth education, a Canadian high school, announced that they will replace textbooks with Sony Readers. When U.S. schools tried to do this with the Kindle Reader, they were hit with accessibility lawsuits. Be interesting to see how it goes with the Sony Reader.
The Medium is No Longer the Message–You Are is an article at TechCrunch [...]

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Why Can’t Twitter Be More Like Facebook or Linked In?

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

It can. Are you looking for a way for Twitter to locate mutual friends or people who know people you know? I love this feature on Facebook and often find BlogHers or long-lost classmates based on the application’s suggestions as to people I may know because they know people I know. People who know people. [...]

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Useful links: Twitter Revolution, AirAmericaMedia on Twitter,

Friday, December 4, 2009

How Twitter is Revolutioninzing Business at Entrepreneur details the rise to success of Laura Fitton (@Pistachio) as the twitter-for-business consultant to go to. If you read this success story on Web Teacher, you may be reminded of the conclusion I offered there: Keep up with what’s changing and learn how to use those changes to [...]

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