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"Below are 20 blogs that have taught us a few things, made us laugh, made us cry, and reminded us that we are not alone in this sometimes stress-inducing, always awe-inspiring profession."

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Since joining Twitter in June 2007, I’ve met hundreds of interesting, helpful, and generally nice people on Twitter. Many of them are connected with science, they’re science tweeps, or to coin a phrase, scientwists.

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I doubted that the carrier had Macbook power supplies laying around, so I was in trouble. I posted a message to Twitter that I was in this predicament, and within ten minutes, five people offered to bring me a power supply.

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On the other hand, Twitter can be actively used as a tool to push out messages that capitalize on the attention you’re receiving from other users. Yes, I’m talking about self-promotion and marketing. This involves active user engagement.

Apart from its use as a info resource and publicity tool, Twitter is also a communication platform for individuals and their personal social networks.

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By now, every business has heard about, considered, and maybe even dabbled in the blogosphere. Understanding that business people are busy running their business, here are seven tools (and my preferred brand) that every business should have in their social media toolbox:

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However, as the Web grows it is becoming less about accumulation and aggregation of content, and more and more a vehicle for participating in engaged learning conversations (both synchronous or asynchronous).

And when we teach content creation we are actually teaching the ability to take part in these conversations.

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Crazy things people make and display at the Maker Faire.

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Pulls occurrances of emotion words from a variety of sources and displays in very interesting ways.

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