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Twitter: the little bird that grew up strong

Writing on the Web

At the time the Twitter home page question was something such as: “Let your family and friends know what you are doing now.&# I thought to myself: Why should they care about this and why should I join the site? But because I trusted Patsi, I went back to the site a few days later and signed up, getting the username @ZimblerMiller.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Online social networks, such as Ning , Twitter , and even Facebook , provide teachers with a way to meet colleagues from around the world and around the country. Preparing students to navigate and sift through an excess of information. Students need to be given opportunities to share information with a larger audience.

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Blogging and culture

Buzz Marketing for Technology

On the Work Literacy Ning , the group is looking at blogs this week. tools is that they might be too "informal" for societies in which learning is expected to take place in a formal structure. Written French, for example, is expected to conform to the rules set out by the Acadamie Francaise. Sites of Interest. 1 week ago.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Our jobs as learning professionals shift from being primarily content producers to facilitating others in creating their own content, showing them how they can actively engage with information and learning materials, teaching them how to be self-directed learners. software that links to networking site (e.g. informal learning.â??

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Connecting 2 the World: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In each of the units, there were some commonalities: a different way to access to information and share information, new organization, different means of communication and (with that) new communication skills, and a greater level of work and personal life intersection.

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Blogging Benchmaks: In Search of the Missing Metrics

B2B Marketing Savvy

Measurable site hits have grown to 1000+/week; . All these I highly value but the ramp is very slow compared to site traffic itself. pages viewed, time on the site, etc. WordPress free blog sites handle most of this; if the blog has a unique domain that you own, many analytic packages can be installed to further dive deep.

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WMC Interviews: Tim Young of Socialcast

WebMarketCentral

WebMarketCentral (WMC): Tim, it appears that unlike tools such as Ning or Zanby , which are designed to let organizations create their own external social networks, Socialcast is more of an internal corporate social network tool, sort of an "Intranet 2.0" Current customers include retailers Hot Topic and Guitar Center.