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  • How to innovate in education

    Book review Disrupting class: How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns. Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, Curtis W. Johnson. McGraw-Hill, 2008. 238 p. Last month a group of educators, government leaders, and corporate and foundation representatives huddled to brainstorm about how technology might drive innovation in the nation’s schools. Kathleen [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:40am EST
    by paul

  • Rapacious

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    Attended a professional conference lately? Had an interesting time trying to access wireless internet? I’ve ragged on this topic before, but as I prepare to attend two conferences the issue again raises its ugly head. It strikes me as rapacious in the extreme that many hotels deliberately restrict wireless access in meeting rooms [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 10:49am EDT
    by paul

  • Twitter: the most effective tool yet

    Book Review Twitterville: How businesses can thrive in the new global neighborhoods By Shel Israel Portfolio Books, 2009. 306 p.  In 2006 Shel Israel and Robert Scoble co-authored the book Naked Conversations, which argued that blogs can help repair corporate image and rebuild lost trust. Now Israel argues that Twitter has become the most effective [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 9:45am EDT
    by paul

  • People first, business later

    Book Review Trust Agents. Using the Web to build influence, improve reputation, and earn trust. By Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009. 271 p. Because I read Trust Agents from the perspective of a public relations practitioner I especially appreciate its challenge to reconsider the meaning of the term [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:25am EDT
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  • Even UW Faculty and Staff Can (and Should) Twitter

    August 25 — 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. September 9 — 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Pyle Center, Room 313 702 Langdon Street Learn all about the world of Twitter at these one-hour sessions in the Pyle Center (so everyone has room to bring laptops). WAA Web Director James Ellis will lead you through the [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 4:26pm EDT
    by paul

  • Make Bank … by Giving It Away

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    Book Review Free: The Future of a Radical Price. By Chris Anderson Hyperion books, 2009.  274 pages. NPR reported this morning that Microsoft will soon offer free web based versions of some of its software programs, including word processing and spreadsheets. Why would Microsoft  give anything away free? After all, about 80 percent of business [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:48am EDT
    by paul

  • Teaching Digital Citizenship in Schools

    Book Review Digital Citizenship in Schools Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey International Society for Technology in Education/ISTE, 2007.  149 p. Technology offers powerful tools that allow students to communicate and, ultimately, create society.  Students need to understand that digital technology makes them citizens of the world. Teachers therefore have to engage digital technology in [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
    by paul

  • Who Produces the Educational Research Mentioned in the News Media?

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    In an analysis of education articles published in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Education Week, Holly Yettick of the University of Colorado at Boulder finds that any given think tank report was substantially more likely to be cited than any given study studies produced by a university. Her study of [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 3:00pm EDT
    by paul

  • Prof. says: Reward media-friendly faculty

    “You can teach more people in 10 minutes on television or radio than you will be able to speak to in an entire year in the classroom,” says Michael C. Munger, political science, Duke University, in The Chronicle, 22 June. “In the triad of research, teaching, and service,” he writes, “the [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 10:41am EDT
    by paul

  • Leveraging social media in politics

    Book Review Yes We Did An inside look at how social media built the Obama brand By Rahaf Harfoush New Riders/Voices that Matter. 2009. 199 p. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House provided a live stream on Tuesday of President Barack Obama’s press conference on Facebook allowing users to give instant feedback on his remarks [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 8:59am EDT
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  • Presentation design for the rest of us

    Slide:ology: The art and science of creating great presentations. By Nancy Duarte O’Reilly, 2008. 274 p. A great slide can facilitate epiphanies. When a presentation is developed and delivered well, it is one of our most powerful communication tools. But alas. Most of us are not trained graphic artists. We don’t really know how to [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 9:14am EDT
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  • Create presentations that inspire

    Book review Beyond bullet points: Using Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire. By Cliff Atkinson Microsoft Press, 2008. 349 p. “We don’t live our lives in bullet points,” Cliff Atkinson says, “we live in images and stories.” Beyond Bullet Points is not a quick fix for your current approach to [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 10:03am EDT
    by paul

  • Solving problems with pictures

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    Book Review The back of the napkin: Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. Dan Roam. Penguin/ Portfolio, 2008.   278 p. http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/ Whether or not you rated highly on the analytical skills section of the Graduate Record Exam, you can learn to take an immensely complicated problem, break it down into constituent parts, explain how things [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 12:11pm EDT
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  • Improving presentation style: Good summer reading

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    I’m just back from a week in Paris. Having visited the Louvre, the Picasso museum, the Pompidou Center, and the Rodin museum, I’m feeling visually inspired. Now I’m talking with one of our graphic designers about cooking up a one-hour lunch time brownbag on the topic: “How to make better [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 10:22am EDT
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  • Education researchers seek to collaborate via new media

    The Ontario Educational Research Organization (AERO) is working with a government group (Ontario Educational Research Panel) to coordinate resources and build virtual spaces for education researchers to collaborate. The hope is to use new communication tools, including Twitter, to facilitate networking. Chris Conley has set up @ResearchChat to “support educational researchers by [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 12:45pm EDT
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  • .. and the conference goers said:

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    As an experiment in using Twitter as a communications backchannel, I encouraged people to share their reactions to the recent meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as it was happening. As mentioned in a previous post, I collected and organized this Twittered conversation, as captured and archived in a [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 10:23am EDT
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  • Twittering the AERA conference

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    Providing substantial reactions to conference sessions, sharing information, and promoting one’s blog posts and presentations were the three kinds of information Tweeted most often at the AERA Annual Meeting in San Diego. Some 13,500 people attended during the week of April 13. Other significant categories of messages included references to Twitter [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 4:34pm EDT
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  • What is your personal brand?

    Book review Me 2.0: Build a powerful brand to achieve career success Dan Schwabel Kaplan Publishing, 2009. 236 pp. This book aims to help readers manage their careers in the Web 2.0 world and to use emerging media to achieve their goals. A personal branding expert, Dan Schwabel helps his fellow Generation Y professionals [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 10:42am EDT
    by paul

  • PRs must reshape the profession

    Book review Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge Pearson Education, 2009. 314 pp. The Problem: PR has slipped into complacency. Many PR practitioners still blast news releases and spam everyone with pitches. The same old tired marketing ethics and [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 10:06am EDT
    by paul

  • Learning the Ropes: Public communication for researchers

    The 2009 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association has drawn to a close, but for another day and a half 25 early career education researchers are still at work. They’re participating in an intensive workshop devoted to communicating research with the media. Today the group heard from editors, reporters, [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 9:26pm EDT
    by paul

  • Riding the backchannel

    For a running commentary from the point of view of an average (albeit technologically skilled) person attending the AERA convention this week, you can go to the Twitter search page and follow the keyword AERA. As an alternative, check the Wiki where the sidebar streams (a limited number of) live text [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 5:24pm EDT
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  • 2 reporters + 2 researchers = productive conversation

    Education reporters and education researchers share overlapping interests and, although cooperation is good, there is much room for improvement. That was the consensus of a panel Tuesday afternoon during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)  going on this week in San Diego. In a session titled, ‘From Wedge [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 2:39pm EDT
    by paul

  • Links for 9 April

    Tweecious Converts Twitter Links to Delicious Bookmarks http://bit.ly/10Kbwu Reach customers who are innovators & early adopters to spark enthusiasm and carry our story to the late majority http://bit.ly/LHFMM Ideas for educators to adapt: 17 Ways To Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners http://ow.ly/2iet For folks new to Twitter here [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
    by paul

  • Inconsistent Hotel Wireless is Inexcusable

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    Am I alone in this? I attend conferences.  I present.  I live blog. At an upcoming conference I will live Tweet. Lots and lots and lots of people do this. Wireless access in hotel conference meeting rooms is usually unavailable, and when it does exist, its cost is prohibitive. But lookit:  Most of the important [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 8:56pm EDT
    by paul

  • Links for 31 March

    RT @rgbroitman : Great list of social media search tools:  http://tinyurl.com/ckpcyo Brian  Solis: PR 2.0 isn’t Social Media, and Social Media isn’t Web 2.0. These movements complement each other http://tinyurl.com/djzldz RT @techpr: Most excellent! (Twitter) Media Database - 473 names - http://tinyurl.com/cnvyp2 Education Week’s Debra Viadero has a new blog [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 11:27am EDT
    by paul

  • Implications of emerging media platforms

    This past Thursday communicators from across the UW-Madison campus heard Sean Mullen  discuss social media and higher education. Sean is VP/Creative Director/Partner at the Hiebing Group, a Madison agency. Sean’s creative work has been recognized by Adweek, Ad Age, Archive, Communication Arts, Print’s Regional Design Annual, and Creativity Annual. Sean discussed emerging [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 11:08am EDT
    by paul

  • Links for 18 march

    American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) offer workshop for advanced grad students: education research from sociological perspective. http://tinyurl.com/auu8qa George Washington U - Cision study of how editors/journalists use PR assistance, media databases, and online resources (PDF, 34 p) http://tinyurl.com/bfg888 My Delicious boookmarks tagged Socialmedia http://tinyurl.com/7f6squ Bookmarks tagged [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 10:30am EDT
    by paul

  • Best practices and morning coffee

    About 15 of us from the public and private sectors enjoyed a social media meetup this morning at Madison’s Cafe Soleil.  We got to know about each others’ work and discussed best practices.  How do you manage multiple Twitter accounts? What’s TweetDeck? When you leave an employer, who gets the [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 11:21am EDT
    by paul

  • Links for 10 march

    Some interesting resources from the Twittersphere · social media marketing efforts for women (Jeremiah Owyang) http://bit.ly/wSMSn · RT @higheredu: Resource of the Day: Twitter… 9 professional and graduate school examples: http://bit.ly/dIKG · Facebook Privacy Settings Every User Should Know (HT to Meg McCall, UW-Madison Dept. of Instructional Tech) http://tinyurl.com/c59bzd [...][...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 11:54am EDT
    by paul

  • Twitter meetup in the works for AERA

    Geekishly-inclined people planning to attend the April Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association are invited to join some of us for a Twitter meetup (time and date TBA). We will probably talk at some point about uses of social media in education research and in education communications. We [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 11:46am EDT
    by paul

  • Using Twitter strategically

    At this morning’s social media breakfast-Madison Marivic Valencia of Broadcast Interactive Media discussed Twitter. Moving comfortably from the macro-level to the micro-level, she emphasized that Twitter provides most benefit when it’s integrated with other social media tools into a larger communication strategy. She recommended setting fairly specific and measurable goals before [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 12:16pm EST
    by paul

  • A Qwiki Guide to Wikipedia

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    Book Review Wikipedia Reader’s Guide By John Broughton Pogue Press/O’Reilly. 2008. 56 pages. Why do people contribute to Wikipedia? It’s a way to help other people understand the world It’s a way to give back to the online resource by contributing to it. Working with others on improving Wikipedia articles can be intrinsically rewarding. This little guidebook contains [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 12:55pm EST
    by paul

  • Six technologies for educators to watch

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    The Horizon Report, 2009 Edition The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative PDF, 32 pages. Young people in Japan equipped with mobiles often see no reason to own personal computers because their mobile phones do almost all of that stuff anyway. The authors of this report predict that by the year 2020 [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 5:41pm EST
    by paul

  • Mobile technologies to promote learning

    White Paper Review Pockets of potential: Using mobile technologies to promote children’s learning. Carly Schuler, Ed. M. January 2009. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop More than half of the world’s population now owns a cell phone and children under 12 constitute one of the fastest growing segments of mobile technology users in [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 5:17pm EST
    by paul

  • Links for 26 Feb.

    Some useful links I’ve found and Tweeted since 6 February RT @widfm: Watching “How I use Twitter”: http://tinyurl.com/b4xeyu Thx @scobleizer RT @juztins: The social media frontier is mobile:  http://is.gd/kn3Q RT @SocialMedia411: How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media (ReadWriteWeb): http://bit.ly/zBvpX Mobile Devices Seen as Key to 21st-Century K-12 Learning http://tinyurl.com/7j8752 Peachpit Press offers [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 1:14pm EST
    by paul

  • New edition full of tips

    Book Review iPod: The Missing Manual. 7th Edition. By J.D. Biersdorfer with David Pogue Pogue Press/O’Reilly. 2009. 284 pages. Around Thanksgiving time I upgraded my iPod Mini (remember those?) to a new Nano. That’s like waking up today after having been in a coma since mid-2005. Hey, everything is different now. The Missing Manual helped [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 11:48am EST
    by paul

  • Rubel’s ‘Five Digital Trends’ worth a careful read

    Journalists and consumers are tuning out marketing and using Google as a big open book. Steve Rubel of Edelman Digital observes that marketers have largely focused on reaching stakeholders through ‘push’ media — paid and earned media. But now that Google dominates, it’s equally important for communicators focus on ‘digital discoverability.’  [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 10:50am EST
    by paul

  • Metamorphosis: Journalists describe an evolving industry

    The poet Ovid wrote his 15-book Metamorphoses to describe the creation and history of the world. Three panelists addressing a group of campus communicators today at UW-Madison took one hour to paint a picture of a news business undergoing a metamorphosis nearly every day. News organizations scramble to keep up [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 8:34pm EST
    by paul

  • Facebook, TOS, and other good things

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    Book Review Facebook me! A guide to having fun with your friends and promoting your projects on Facebook. By Dave Awl. Peachpit Press, 2009. 205 pages. Facebook: The Missing Manual. By E.A. Vander Veer. Pogue Press/O’Reilly, 2008. 268 pages. Again, Facebook makes a policy change that sends shivers down the spine of its millions of members and [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 9:36am EST
    by paul

  • TwitterSheep generated this ...

    TwitterSheep generated this word cloud from the bios of @pabaker55’s followers. [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 4:06pm EST
    by paul

  • Recent tweets

    What have been your best and worst experiences adding or editing entries on Wikipedia? UCSD provides alums with Digg-type communication space http://tinyurl.com/bfndoe Colleges and universities outpace corporate adoption of new communications tools and technologies http://tinyurl.com/9vm2uq RT @Poynter: Webinar or “#Twebinar”: Twitter for Journalists: New Channels, New Cycles for News: Feb. 11, 2 p.m. [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 2:05pm EST
    by paul

  • Networking with LinkedIn

    Book Review LinkedIn for Recruiting. Bill Vick and Des Walsh. HappyAbout Books, 2006/ 2008. 109 p. 42 Rules for 24-hour Success on LinkedIn.  Chris Muccio with David Burns & Peggy Murrah. Superstar Books, 2009. 117 p. I’m On LinkedIn: Now What? Jason Alba. HappyAbout Books, 2008. 133 p. About 30 million professionals use LinkedIn [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 9:33am EST
    by paul

  • By design or by stealth

    Book Review SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate Joel Postman. New Riders: Voices that Matter. 2009. 195 pages. The company website is no longer the center of the communications universe. Now that everybody and their grandmother can set up a blog, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account, corporate web sites no longer seem quite so [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 2:31pm EST
    by paul

  • SNCR: Higher ed ramping up social media use

    The Society for New Communications Research reports that colleges and universities are adopting social media at record rates. SNCR Senior Fellow Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson’s sudy of social media adoption by the higher education sector compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by admissions offices [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 10:10am EST
    by paul

  • The People Side of Education Reform

    We’re expecting about 45 education leaders to spend a day with us here at WCER on 10 February. They direct the state’s Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESAs). They will have Q&A with UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin and Prof. Adam Gamoran about the UW-Madison and the School of Education, respectively. They’ll talk [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 11:09am EST
    by paul

  • Social Media Breakfast Madison kicks off

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    This morning’s first meeting of Social Media Breakfast Madison attracted 35 people who communicate for business and for the UW-Madison campus. Timur Yarnall, CEO of Broadcast Interactive Media, discussed YouNews and his vision of scaling up user-generated news content.  When higher ed folks and business people share ideas, we both [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 11:54am EST
    by paul

  • Recent Tweets

    Reading Joel Postman’s book, SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate http://tinyurl.com/6z57cb RT @socialmediaclub: 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009 http://tinyurl.com/cna87s | RT @Poynter: E-Media Tidbits: Pew on Social Media: It’s Bigger Than You Think: On Jan 14., the Pew Internet a.. http://tinyurl.com/c4fqxv The [...][...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 5:49pm EST
    by paul

  • Don’t knock it ’til you try it

    Book Review Twitter Means Business: How Microblogging can help or hurt your company By Julio Ojeda-Zapata. HappyAbout Books, 2008. 141 pages. Just about the time some people have gotten comfortable blogging, along comes the next new thing, blowing people away and making blogs look, well, old hat. In fact, that new thing, microblogging, isn’t [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 9:19am EST
    by paul

  • Engage the empowered consumer

    Book Review Crowd surfing: Surviving and thriving in the age of consumer empowerment. Martin Thomas and David Brain. London: A & C Black, 2008. 194 pp. I noticed a stack of colorful postcards on the counter of a neighborhood liquor store. They advertised an online art gallery sponsored by Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Pabst Blue Ribbon [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2009, 10:01am EST
    by paul

  • Two recent social media reports

    In reality, people interact with very few of those listed as part of their social network, according to a recent study posted at  First Monday by Huberman, Romero, and Wu, “Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope.” To assess the size of the social network that matters we need [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 2:34pm EST
    by paul
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