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Useful Links: Integrate Social Media, Backgrounding in class

Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy by Britt Parrot at Digital Web Magazine. If you are teaching web design and haven’t yet come to grips with the notion that business web sites need to include social media features, this article may help you see the light.

Outside of the tech industry, skepticism and fear are the norm when it comes to social media. But it is simply about finding the best way to communicate with an audience. Social media consists of the same content already in use: text, audio, images, and video. The difference lies in its ability to open up new channels of communication.

Going online in a f2f class – Help or Distraction? at Clapping Trees raises some interesting issues about students backgrounding on the Web during face to face lectures.

Should you add Friend Connect to your blog or site?

Yesterday Google announced a new social network tool called Friend Connect. Google suggests that every blog owner in her right mind will want to add Friend Connect to her blog. What is Friend Connect, and do you want to use it on your blog?

See the full post: Should You Add Google Friend Connect to Your Blog?

A Senior PC?

Who is a senior? Someone over 65? Boomers are between 44 and 62. Ronni Bennett at Time Goes By defines elders as anyone over age 50. Does being of a certain age mean that you require special accomodations in the form of a “Senior PC” or an extra simple cell phone or an adapted elderbrowser?

Microsoft Corporation just announced a project in the UK that will start development of what they are called a Senior PC.

Read the full post at BlogHer.

Useful Links

Letter from Taos on my writing blog First 50 Words will explain what I’ve been doing instead of posting here lately. I’ve also been occupied writing things like Eco-Friendly Recycling of Electronics at BlogHer. If you are about to get a new digital TV or plan to dispose of anything from a cell phone to a fax machine, that article will help you find a recycler who will do the right thing with all the lead, mercury and other toxins in your electronics.

Another way to Classify Twitter Users from Sarah in Tampa describes some new ways to classify spammers on Twitter. I’m hardly a power user of Twitter, but I’ve already attracted my share of spammers.

Morgan Stanley’s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating at TechCrunch shows the entire presentation. It’s worth looking at every slide from Morgan Stanley, don’t just read the selective summary in the post.

SAP Global Survey: Australia’s Laurel Papworth: Building a Social Network for Arab Women is an interview with Laurel Papworth about her recent experiences teaching blogging at the Arab Women’s Network. My background info on this here .

Useful links

Kottke points out the 1:37 ratio of female:male speakers at Google’s upcoming Web Forward conference, prompting Susan Mernit to to comment, “. . . we were taught that it was good business practice to have your development teams reflect the audiences you were creating for. Despite the fact Google has Ellen Spertus, does this mean that they are only building apps for men?”

Good Tube is like YouTube, but features only people doing good. You can contribute your videos to Good Tube.

Wall Murals from HubbleSite.org will put the Universe on your wall. In case you need a little help keeping a sense of perspective, or in case you love natural design.

Deception about Defamation at 43(B)log points out, “JuicyCampus may be violating the state’s Consumer Fraud Act by suggesting that it doesn’t allow offensive material but providing no enforcement of that rule — and no way for users to report or dispute the material. . .”

Summary of eHow articles for February

It was cats and kids month in my personal life. In my writing life, here’s what I did at eHow in February. (The CSS attribute selector article appeared here first, in an easier to use format.)

Got a good idea? Submit it to Social Innovation Camp

Here’s the idea behind Social Innovation Camp:

Web 2.0 tools turn the online world into a social space – they are the ‘social web’. They tap into and support a user’s desire to connect, contribute and collaborate with others.

This has some important effects. Not only does the social web enable individuals to create things for themselves, but as increasing numbers of people use the web in this way, the network that they are building becomes more than the sum of its individual parts.

The Social Innovation Camp is interested in how this phenomenon in the online world can be used to create better solutions to social problems in the real world.

This is based on the premise that individuals want to produce – and are capable of producing – better outcomes for themselves, provided they are given the tools and support to do so.

They quote a few examples of what they are talking about such as FixMyStreet and Freecycle.

Entry forms and criteria.

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