Video: Think social media is just a fad? Think again.

Social Media Revolution: Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details out social media facts and figures that are hard to ignore. This video is produced by the author of Socialnomics. (Also, if you need more proof: word of this video was spread through social media, [...]

From Newspaper Girl’s Blog: How @GuyKawasaki Tweets

Janet Meiners Thaeler, a.k.a. “Newspaper Girl: the Lois Lane of the world wide web” writes about Guy Kawasaki’s speech at the Cisco/Ragan Social Media Summit last week: Here are 10 things Guy Kawasaki Taught Me About Twitter Guy Ignores the Twitter police The Twitter police don’t like how Guy tweets. How @GuyKawasaki tweets is how he [...]

Business Networking Opportunities with BNI

BNI, the world’s largest referral organization, is a corporation focused on expanding its members businesses through networking and social media. It teaches the fundamentals of networking in the 21st Century. There are literally thousands of chapters in the U.S. alone, usually with many specific types of business groups in one city. To take advantage of [...]

Bored with 21st Century Skills? Get over It

By: Mike Sansone Blogs and Social Media as Conversation Stations I hear a lot of business people, teachers, educators — and some edubloggers — who are already tired of the term “21st Century Skills.”  Get over it!  The term is going to be around for a long, long time. The definition? Possibly ever-evolving. I remember [...]

Tracking hashtags on Twitter

Tracking hashtags on Twitter by Nathan T. Wright in Web Strategy May 20, 2009 Image by Search Engine People Blog via Flickr If you’re new to Twitter, you may be wondering what all those strange words are preceded by the # symbol. These are called hashtags – basically, it is a method for adding context [...]

Social networking users aren’t as young as you might think

Social networking users aren’t as young as you might think by Nathan T. Wright in Web Strategy June 2, 2009 In Twitter’s infancy, the micro-sharing social network was largely perceived as a gathering place for hyper-connected, digitally-inclined twentysomethings. Sure, Twitter’s early adopters were comprised of the younger “tech elite,” but recent months have proven that [...]

It’s About the Talk, Not the Tech

Social Media is, in the minds of many, a new thing on the technology treadmill we race to keep up with.  Some hope it’s just a fad. Some see it trending. In the minds of many, this is still technology tough to grasp. The “minds of many” should stop thinking about the tools. Think connections. Think [...]

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