52 Cool Facts About Social Media

52 Cool Facts About Social Media By Danny Brown From DannyBrown.me As social media continues to gain acceptance as a bona-fide communications platform, I thought it might be fun to have a cool fact about it for every week of the year. So, here are ten facts about the five most well-known social media outlets [...]

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 [...]

5 Ways to attract a following on Twitter

Over the past year I have essentially submerged myself in online activity and absorbed as much as I can. Social media, ezine marketing, widgets, blogs, video marketing, podcasts, ebooks! While Twittering one night I realized never before had I spent so much time learning something that was so much fun. After literally hours spent on [...]

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 [...]

Don’t Teach your kids this stuff..Please??

Don’t teach your kids this stuff. Please? By Scott Mcleod, J.D, PH.D. dear parent teacher administrator board member don’t teach your kids to read for the Web to scan RSS aggregate synthesize don’t teach your kids to write online pen and paper aren’t going anywhere since when do kids need an audience? no need to [...]

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 [...]