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Category Archives: SocialMedia

Komen Can Kiss My Mammagram

Friday, February 3, 2012

Photo by Tim Waclawski via Flickr As anyone who pays attention to the social blogosphere and the network news knows, the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to stop funding Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening and mammogram program. I’m a woman and a liberal. It doesn’t take much more information that that for you to know [...]

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Useful links: Responsive bookmarklet, JAWS11, Sony Bloggie, Fluid Grid, Twitter in HS

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

There’s a tool for a simple responsive design test that works in your browser. It’s also available in a bookmarklet. JAWS 11 and IE 9. Tests by DingoAccess. Sony Bloggie Live. Take your video and broadcast it live via wifi. Imagine what we will see coming from tech conferences now . . . If your [...]

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A social media campaign gone wrong

Monday, December 5, 2011

Recently I was reading How to Use Social Media for Better Customer Acquisition on Mashable. Like most professional writers on the topic, the author suggested cultivating conversation to open channels of contact. Good advice, right? Where do people get an idea like what happened to me the other day? I tweeted something about the weather [...]

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Useful links: Forms, WeTopia, Moodle, 24 Ways

Friday, December 2, 2011

How to Make Forms more Usable with HTML5 is a good tutorial from Steven Bradley. The new WeTopia game on Facebook is described by TechCrunch. This game is a perfect example of what Jane McGonigal and other thinkers say about using game theory to create social good. NC State U evaluates the accessibility of Moodle [...]

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Guest Post: Meta Descriptions

Friday, November 18, 2011

What search engines and sites like Facebook actually do with meta description information.

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Useful links: top 25 books, edu conferences, blue beanie day, semantics, Think Up

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The top 25 books for web developers and designers from .net is a good list to check to see if you’re keeping up with the latest. I noticed that several of the 25 are from A Book Apart. That led me to tweet this: Is there some sort of brain implant that would directly feed [...]

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Useful Links: Project Management, kid’s apps, students and IT

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Manymoon vs. Basecamp. The Throwdown! at Social Media Marketing Management compares the features of Manymoon, Basecamp and TeamworkPM. If you’re looking for educational apps for kids from K to middle school, check out Mind Leap. They recommend apps they consider educational and engaging. Study of Undergrad Students and IT. A report from EduCause that includes [...]

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Video chat with Skype

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Are you aware of Digitwirl? A weekly program that provides tips on interesting technology and includes some how to help for getting started with each topic. There’s an email sign up for the weekly release. Here’s an example.

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Facebook News is Making Me Weary

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Every time Facebook does the tiniest thing it affects a gazillion people. That’s reality. So every time Facebook does the tiniest thing, it is a news event. The latest news is they released an iPad app. I’ve had a Facebook app on my iPhone for some time, so I didn’t realize there wasn’t one available [...]

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Quora: Are you using it?

Monday, October 10, 2011

Quora announced a new iPhone app for Quora. I guess they are hoping to revive the project. I don’t know about you, but I am completely over Quora. I never check it. It was unbearably slow to load, navigation was not all that clear, and the system of promoting the questions and answers never really [...]

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