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31 Days to Building a Better Blog: ProBlogger Blog Tips
a month long series of posts here at ProBlogger designed to walk you through 31 tasks that you can do to make your blog better.
Introduction to Emerging Technologies for Learning (Summer Institute)
New technologies offer new opportunities for educators to increase learner engagement and improve the overall value of the learning experience. The last five years have resulted in the introduction of numerous new tools and approaches: blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking, virtual worlds, and social networking services. This course will explore the development of different technologies and suggest their potential impact on teaching and learning. Focus will be placed on tools that increase learner control over content, interaction, and the formation of learning networks with peers and experts outside of classrooms.
Web 2.0/Social Media: Really guys, it's pretty simple
1. Social Media is just people talking to people
2. Don't do anything with Social Media unless you know what and why you're doing it
3. If you're going to say something, have something real to say
4. Using Social Media is not magic, it's still real work
5. You cannot prevent people from hating you, stop trying to prevent it as a thing
TagCrowd - make your own tag cloud from any text
Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency. Post URL, upload file, or paste text. Very cool!
90-9-1
If you spend any time at all talking about online communities, you’re bound to stumble across the 90-9-1 Principle. The idea is simple: In social groups, some people actively participate more than others. Researcher Jakob Nielsen calls this “Participation
How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website
Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.
Build your own community or go where people are? Do both | FreshNetworks Blog
A common debate among those working in marketing and social media is between engaging people on your own domain - in an online community that you build and manage yourself - and engaging people where they are - out in social networks like Facebook and MySpace or on YouTube, external blogs or forums.
There is, of course, a place for both of these things - engaging people in social networks can often be more suitable for campaign-based activities. For generating discussion and buzz about a specific campaign and to engage people on a relatively short-term basis. Your own online community, on the other hand, is better suited to real engagement - something that is long-term and sustainable rather than a one-off hit.
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A common debate among those working in marketing and social media is between engaging people on your own domain - in an online community that you build and manage yourself - and engaging people where they are - out in social networks like Facebook and MySpace or on YouTube, external blogs or forums.
There is, of course, a place for both of these things - engaging people in social networks can often be more suitable for campaign-based activities. For generating discussion and buzz about a specific campaign and to engage people on a relatively short-term basis. Your own online community, on the other hand, is better suited to real engagement - something that is long-term and sustainable rather than a one-off hit.
Intel Social Media Guidelines
These are the official guidelines for social media at Intel. If you're an Intel employee or contractor creating or contributing to blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds, or any other kind of social media both on and off intel.com—these guidelines are for you. We expect all who participate in social media on behalf of Intel to be trained, to understand and to follow these guidelines. Failure to do so could put your future participation at risk. These guidelines will continually evolve as new technologies and social networking tools emerge—so check back once in awhile to make sure you're up to date.
Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy?
Social media is quickly moving from an emerging form of communication to the mainstream. So, just like in the old days when companies had to figure out how to deal with email, now they have to figure out how to deal with Facebook (Facebook reviews) and all other new media venues. Let's talk about the Five Ws to adopting a social media policy.
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A social media policy outlines for employees the corporate guidelines or principles of communicating in the online world.
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Social media is quickly moving from an emerging form of communication to the mainstream. So, just like in the old days when companies had to figure out how to deal with email, now they have to figure out how to deal with Facebook (
) and all other new media venues. Let’s talk about the Five Ws to adopting a social media policy. - 8 more annotations...
What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? RSS News Aggregation And Re-Publishing For Beginners - Robin Good's Latest News
Newsmastering is the process by which a human being identifies, aggregates, hand-picks, edits and republishes a highly-focused, thematic news via RSS. Newsmastering allows dedicated news editors (newsmasters) to remix and contextualize the existing tsunam
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Newsmastering is a new and emerging skill that involves gathering, filtering and selecting from the chaos of information that saturates the internet, and delivering the resulting news feed to niche-targeted audiences.
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Newsmastering is a new and emerging skill that involves gathering, filtering and selecting from the chaos of information that saturates the internet, and delivering the resulting news feed to niche-targeted audiences.
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Social Media Outposts: Maintenance - louisgray.com
The first part was creating outposts or as I refer to them, tollbooths. The core objective is for organic search engine traffic, and reserving the brand's identity on the given social networks I have chosen. It's no secret anymore that social media optimization works and it works well with regards to search engines. In the previous post, I outlined my reasons for choosing the social media platforms, today I will delve into maintenance, which is basically updating the outposts.
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The first part was creating outposts or as I refer to them, tollbooths. The core objective is for organic search engine traffic, and reserving the brand's identity on the given social networks I have chosen. It's no secret anymore that social media optimization works and it works well with regards to search engines. In the previous post, I outlined my reasons for choosing the social media platforms, today I will delve into maintenance, which is basically updating the outposts.
Creating Social Media Outposts - louisgray.com
My main objective with this task is primarily for search engine purposes only. Creating back links and outposts. Brand monitoring is also another objective. This is a roll-your-own strategy tailored for the three objectives I mentioned only.
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My main objective with this task is primarily for search engine purposes only. Creating back links and outposts. Brand monitoring is also another objective. This is a roll-your-own strategy tailored for the three objectives I mentioned only.
10 Steps to Becoming A Social Media Expert
We’re all pretty much experts at something. Since social media is all the rage, why no become an expert in that? So many of the world’s trends in technology, business, marketing, entertainment and overall communication are heavily tied in with online social media. It’s an important area in which to be well-versed.
Education and Technology - All Sessions - The Net Generation: Myths, Realities and Implications for Higher Education
The presentation will be to debunk some of the myths around the so-called Net Generation by highlighting the lack solid research to support many of the claims. I will present results from research done at BCIT and elsewhere to argue for a more nuanced approach to the use of educational technology to support the needs of this generation of learner.
Nonprofit Marketing
The Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising Zone is a topic hub started by Katya Andresen, Nancy Schwartz and Kivi Leroux Miller for collecting and organizing information around this topic.
Time Management Tips for Nonprofit Techies and Social Media Strategists
A slidedeck for a career training workshop at the YMCA. It's about using social networking tools to support your career.
The Social Media Monitoring Funnel | Ignite Social Media
Social media monitoring is one of the most important aspects to any Internet marketing initiative today. Tight integration with offline and online campaigns is a necessity and organizations need to have the right procedures in place to fully take advantag
3 ways to use RSS in your organization | learn.netsquared.org
If you set up a series of RSS feeds on a particular topic that can pump useful content onto your organization's web site; You can create a media monitoring tool for internal use only; Choose a tag that your staff, board and volunteers can use to share inf
How-To: Search the Social Web - Ultimate Toolkit
Social media has created an explosion of information online. People are writing on blogs, tweeting, bookmarking, sharing, commenting, etc.
You no doubt want to tap into this wealth of information and learn what people are saying about you, your business
Does your organization have a Wikipedia entry? Start monitoring it now. | Social Signal
If your organization is listed in Wikipedia, the community-edited online encyclopedia, congratulations. Quite apart from the virtues of collaborative editing, Wikipedia entries often rank at or near the top of Google search results.
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