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Category Archives: SocialMedia

A blog + a feed + a reader = a more efficient you

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Pop quiz time. Do you read several blogs each day? If yes, do you navigate to each one separately? If yes, would you like to save time by subscribing to each one and reading it in a feed reader? If you are not sure what a feed reader is, this article is for you. I [...]

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Useful Links: CS instruction, emergencies, smart bike

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language takes on the issue of leveling the playing field in CS classes with an interesting suggestion. What do you think of this idea? In case of Emergency, Update your Facebook status talks about what is happening the the world of social media and how it’s changing [...]

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Can Twitter’s new Suggestions for You Feature make you a power Tweeter?

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

With Discovering Who to Follow, Twitter let the world know that things were changing in Twitterland. The change is the addition of Suggestions for You to the Twitter Find People menu. The suggestions are personalized and based on the people you follow and the people they follow. Recommendations for you also come from account profiles. [...]

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What’s all this about Facebook Questions? I’m just asking.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

[Cross-posted at BlogHer in a slightly different version.] Facebook rolled out the first baby steps toward the new Facebook Questions yesterday with an announcement on the Facebook blog: Searching for Answers? Ask Facebook Questions. To ask a question to the community, just click the “Ask Question” button at the top of the homepage. You can [...]

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More on Old Spice and Sarah McLachlan too

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

I keep marveling at what Old Spice did over the weekend. Plus, I’d been admiring what Sarah McLachlan has done with social media for the new Lilith tour and her newest album. I wrote more about it at BlogHer in Taking social media to new levels with Old Spice and Sarah McLachlan.

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Old Spice: it’s been around forever and it’s still leading edge

Friday, July 16, 2010

How the Old Spice Videos are Being Made. How the Old Spice ads use social media to create a huge success. In case you don’t read what women are talking about that often, let me assure you that the Old Spice ads are getting talked about by women. A team of creatives, tech geeks, marketers [...]

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Useful links: social media, mobile YouTube, Big Web Show

Thursday, July 8, 2010

No, You Can’t Automate Social Media from Techipedia is a thoughtful post about people who are trying to build a social media campaign based on automation. While the Techipedia article needs no help making its point, there’s a similar piece at Web Worker Daily called 10 Ways to Really Connect Through Social Media that is [...]

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Useful Links: more broadband, google.cn, social media day, iPhone dev

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution from the POTUS promises more broadband. We need it. Is it google.cn or google.hk? Either way, it’s a workaround for searching in China. See An Update on China. It’s Social Media Day. Mashable wants you to attend a meetup in your area to celebrate your social medianess. Getting the hang [...]

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Useful links: Web Directions, HTML5 Watch, Pew on Reputation

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Web Directions North has a new web site and an announced lineup for the Atlanta, GA, conference September 21–25. This group includes a lot of people interested in web education, InterACT, and OWEA. You don’t see  it on the agenda, but there will be plenty of people there who want to engage in conversation about [...]

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SWIX your way into social media analytics

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

SWIX is an analytics tool that tracks your success in social media. You can check how you’re doing over various time periods in your social media campaigns. Right now you can try it free while it’s in beta. When the beta testing is over, there will still be a 14 day free trial. After that [...]

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