To many, the utility of Twitter, especially for journalists, is not obvious. Read Mashable's Journalist's Guide To Twitter and the instructor's post about "Twitter Literacy" and then look through the resources...
Want to become more effective as a citizen?
Want to help shape public policy rather than be shaped by it?
Want to make your voice heard loudly -- without screaming?
"Song Of A Citizen" is a resource to help you do all that and more.
And to help you inspire others to do the same.
[Video] - Why and how the history and origins of the public sphere can inform our forecasts of the future of democracy in the era of many-to-many media.
Why American politics and society are about to be changed for the worse.
The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don’t want to install your own. (See this for an explanation of who “we” are).