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The Bamboo Project Blog: Blogging for Learning: Blog Challenges

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In a blog challenge, several  bloggers work together on a group learning project over a period of time--a few days, a week, a month. Each day during the challenge, learning activities are posted for bloggers to engage in and then blog about. You can then embed the Technorati feed to that tag in your own blog or in a wiki.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity

Wikis (Wikipedia, hundreds of specific topic-focused wikis). Chapter seventeen notes the importance of providing not just a policy, but social media training for all employees so that the understand the policy, the power, and the potential dangers of social media. Chapter 6 details the importance of social media conversation.

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how to use social media - lessons from ama digital conference

The Effective Marketer

Just as a sidenote, I thought ironic the fact that for a “digital marketing conference&# that focused on social media (blogs, wikis, twitter, facebook, etc.) the AMA Tampa Bay chapter didn’t have a blog, a wiki, or a discussion forum on their website where attendees could continue the conversation. United States License.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OK as far as it goes, but so NOT getting to the real opportunities.Blogs are a conversation between the blogger and him/herself (a form of reflection) and between the blogger and his/her readers. " Throwing up a wiki or a blog and hoping for the best isnt going to cut it. THATS where the real learning takes place.

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Website Content Must Address What’s Keeping Engineers up at Night

Industrial Marketing Today

I think Jeffrey Zeldman ( @zeldman ), the renowned web designer and blogger, summed up the problem best when he said, “Content precedes design. A wiki or a customer forum is another option. Through downsizing and natural attrition, many engineering companies are facing a critical shortage of trained people.

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Rick Short Explains How to Turn Staff Into Prolific Bloggers

Online Marketing Institute

My real challenge was getting my staff to warm to the concept of being a blogger. That was the voice of many of my bloggers at one time or another. In the beginning (for us), and when I start up a new blogger (this morning), this question comes up very early in the discussion. Some perceived this "new" practice to be frivolous.

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The Power of Educational Technology: Preparing Students to Succeed in the 21st Century

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Liz, As a fellow educator, blogger, social networker, I agree that this topic is near and dear to my heart and trying to articulate what something like a 21st Century Classroom looks like (especially when I am not quite sure myself) is like trying to explain the color green to a visually impaired person who may have once seen blue and yellow.

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