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Online Communities

2013-12-31

Managing Social Media

Hootsuite posted this to their blog and made it available on December 29. Managing Your Social Media Profiles While On Holiday I suppose that it could, or should, be posted/reposted during any holiday period as a way to remind folks that there is a great deal of power available in the tools that you use.… Continue reading

application, Computers, Education, learning, PLN, Read/Write Web, software

facebook, Holiday, Hootsuite, Online Communities, social media, Social network, Twitter
2013-12-23

My Tweets Do Not Reflect the Views of My Employer

How many times have you looked at a person’s Twitter profile and read this? They may not, but once thrown on your wall, they can stick. Writing on the internet is like writing with permanent marker. It takes the events of this past week to remind us of this. It’s a heck of a way… Continue reading

Just Rambling, Read/Write Web

Online Communities, social networking, Twitter
2013-07-02

A List for Learning

Any day now, there are many educators that will be starting Additional Qualification courses over the summer. There are a couple of things that will be certain to happen during these courses. Some sort of goofy ice-breaking, get-to-know-ya activity. This activity will definitely take up at least the first hour of any course. They are… Continue reading

Computers, Education, learning, PLN, Teaching

E-learning, Education, facebook, Instructional design, Online Communities, social networking, Twitter, University of Western Ontario
2013-05-29

Successful Blogging

I read a great “help blog post” yesterday titled “10 Maxims of Successful Blogging“. I really enjoy reading posts of this type and I’ll often use them as inspiration to do a little reflection on my own habits and how I measure up. So, here goes… 1. We live in an increasingly information-dense world. The… Continue reading

Education, Just Rambling, learning, Read/Write Web, Teaching

Blog, Online Communities, Reading (process), social networking
2013-04-20

Newsana

My friend @GingerPatti recently sent me a message asking what I thought about Newsana. My initial response was Huh? Never heard of it. But, I did head over to see what it was all about. Is it another place to find and curate news stories? Yes, but with an interesting twist. First of all, you need… Continue reading

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Newsana, Online Communities, social media, Twitter

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