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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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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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I wish Twitter would . . .

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

I wish there was a way to select a series of tweets and then reorder them according to age – oldest to newest – so you could follow a series of tweets from someone about a topic or a conversation in chronological order. There’s a filter tool in Tweetdeck that sort of does some selecting [...]

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Useful Links: Flipped Classroom, Digital Talent, #mencallmethings, Treehouse, gamification

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Progress report on my flipped classroom. Here’s what Suze is taking about: The flipped classroom turns this model on its head; lecture materials are provided via video and other multimedia, and assigned as homework. Students complete the video lessons on their own time, at their own pace. Then, classroom time is devoted to assignments and [...]

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Useful links: Motion, Environments for Humans, Style Tweets, HTML5 Semantics

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Motion 2011: motion is known for bringing together the brightest and most creative minds in the motion graphics, visual effects {VFX}, and animation industries. This year is no exception. Environments for Humans has some great conferences scheduled. You get top experts and you don’t have to leave home to attend. Style Twitter posts on your site [...]

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How To Automatically Create A WordPress Post from Your Tweets

Monday, July 18, 2011

We’re in a time where Twitter and Facebook have taken over the world. It’s pretty safe to say that almost every active Internet user has an account on one or the other or even both. Not a day goes by where I don’t see Twitter mentioned on a TV show (especially reality shows) or a [...]

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Useful Links: Google Fonts, Scientific wow, Teach with Twitter, Rap

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Google Web Fonts, V2. Now out. I tried out one the of fantasy fonts called Swanky on vdebolt.com. Scientific American has 60 new blogs under its umbrella. 28 Creative Ways Teachers are Using Twitter. Some of them are indeed creative. Hat tip to Spydergrrl for finding this climate change rap.

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