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Standing Against PIPA / SOPA 14 Jan 2012 | 08:34 am
This week - not just on Wednesday, January 18th - I am choosing to stand with others against the SOPA / PIPA bills that are before the U.S. Congress that could have negative consequences for free spee...
Watch "Happy New Year" being tweeted around the world 12 Jan 2011 | 03:00 am
Twitter just released this beautiful visualization of "Happy New Year" being tweeted at midnight around the world -- tweets per second. View it in full screen mode for best effect. Epic! Twitter said...
Serving Up Social Media in a Sweet Way: iCupCakes 8 Jan 2011 | 03:00 am
iCupCake A colleague, Jeramy Johnson of Academic Programs International (API) sent me the photo above. It's cupcakes topped by representations of iPhone / iPad applications presented to him on a spec...
How Not To... Answer a Student's Email 02 7 Jan 2011 | 10:33 am
Remember how I said people are talking about you? Here's yet more proof that they are and another entry to add to my "How not to..." series. Recently, a student tweeted: I sent an email to my school...
Are Students on Twitter? 7 Jan 2011 | 03:00 am
This past fall, I was at a number of NAFSA: Association of International Educator regional conferences. I attended some sessions about social media and engaged in lots of conversations about social me...
Optimize Your Videos to Increase Sharing 5 Jan 2011 | 03:30 am
Image via CrunchBase I've just spent hours filled with frustration trying to find appropriate videos (YouTube, Vimeo and others) to feature in some upcoming blog postings. Sigh... Oh, it's not that ...
How not to: Market your consulting services 4 Jan 2011 | 03:00 am
I recently came across the following status message (which might have been on Facebook or Twitter or some other social network -- I'm not telling!) My new venture: online courses. #WordPress for Noob...
10 International Education Tweeps to Follow on Twitter 31 Dec 2010 | 11:00 am
As part of the work I am doing for some of my clients, I daily monitor literally hundreds of Twitter accounts that deal with international education. I have the opportunity to see how many organizatio...
Google Alerts: Do you know what others are saying about you? 30 Dec 2010 | 08:36 am
I wonder how many of you really know what others are saying about you in public. I monitor a lot of social media streams -- and I can tell you that your students and participants (past, present and fu...
7 billion reasons to read National Geographic this year 28 Dec 2010 | 12:27 pm
National Geographic has released a video that emphasizes that each of us will be one of seven (7) billion people on earth by the end of 2011. The magazine is promoting a year-long series of articles t...
