This election saw both political parties building strong web presences and utilizing social networking sites (and some mobile, too!) Candidates and their supporters actively participating in facebook, twitter, myspace and other social networking sites: advertising, building networks, and well… campaigning! Although I’m not particularly fond of the term web2.0 (what happens when we get to web20.0?), there is no doubt
When I have a bit of free time (as if – ha!), I’ve been wandering around second life. Honestly, I still don’t get it. I’ve been to a couple of academic/IT related presentations, I’ve gone shopping (for free clothes), and I’ve been to a few museums/art galleries. I’m still trying to see how I could use this for learning or
The second annual Peabody-Smithgall Lecture will feature UGA grad Pat Mitchell, a former PBS president and the current CEO and president of the Paley Center for Media in New York. She’ll speak on the topic “Media As Public Square.” ..very interesting! stream o’ conscious thoughts while they are fresh> media responsibility, media influence, digital divide vs. digital democracy, we are
Although I was late, I managed to attend the Carolina Conversations webinar in Second Life. Yep, I actually got my avatar to the presentation and I got her to sit down. I’ve been wanting to attend an academic event in SL for a while, but they always seemed to either cost money (real money!) OR were at 3AM my time.
For those of you who are dealing with the impact of Desmoid tumors (in my case my sister), please do check out the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation. ————————————Please join DTRF in supporting the Sarcoma Patient Registry developed by The Sarcoma Foundation of America. You can start the process by going to DTRF’s website (www.dtrf.org). On the bottom left hand side
Whoa, so have you checked out shutterfly lately? I haven’t done anything with my account there in FOREVER, because well, shutterfly didn’t seem to do much. It certainly wasn’t as great as flickr. However, shutterfly has jumped into the social networking venue with both feet — take a look at my “profile” shutterfly page vs my flickr page. Okay, Okay,
From Zen Habits, with my thoughts in brackets. 1. Online applications and the cloud beat the desktop and hard drive2. Collaborate on documentation [online], don’t email [Don’t collaborate on paper, either. If needed, make screenshots of prototypes to share with the group. ]3. Collaboration is the new productivity [not necessarily true, if you’ve ever been on a dysfunctional committee or
Today’s question from my mailbox: Once you download an Opensource software how do you know it will work on your server? If you can FTP/ssh/webdav into your webspace you should be able to install any software that you download provided: Your server meets the System requirements needed for the software, e.g., right version of php loaded, mysql, imagemajick, adequate space,
From social networking to blogging to image sharing…. a nice list of all the basics organized by category. A few additions:Under social networking, I would add one of the oldest social networking sites for artists, deviantart; under misc, I would also throw in sites which are more tool based, too, like slideshare (for sharing powerpoint), and some of the rss/blog
I can’t cover ALL of the stuff that I read that is interesting, so I thought I’d do a quick roundup from my google reader box (today’s topic: twitter!). I hope I’m not just rehashing what everyone has read a million times already, though. Twitter 25 startups using twitter: the list (for product updates, feedback loops, creating evangelists, listening to