Twitter Lists I Am On

 Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, Twitter  19 Responses »
Nov 132009
 

I first started looking down the lists of lists, the Twitter lists list, to see if there were any that I had to remove myself from. One removes oneself from Twitter lists by blocking the person who created the list. Stands to reason. I thought I’d remove myself from any list like “bitch” or “annoying”, and go downhill from there. After all, we are told time and again that online, give people half a chance and they will be negative, right? Negative reviews, negative comments, negative ratings, negative words, negative all the way. Which begs the question that if the only conversations online are bad, why would you go there? Wouldn’t you be terrified every time someone followed you on Facebook or Twitter?

Ghostmunching on Twitter

Ghostmunching on Twitter

But as I read down the list I went from nervous to smiling to a bit gooey -not a single public negative list in over 300 I am on -here’s a few that were special to me: Continue reading »

Singapore: Web 2.0 Social Media courses

 Education, Marketing, Online Communities, public relations, social media, social networks, web 2.0  13 Responses »
Oct 202008
 

CORRECT DATES I’m heading to Singapore this weekend, for a week. I’ll be teaching THREE seperate public courses, so if you are in Singapore – or can talk the boss into an overseas trip, heh – this is what we’ll be doing: Wednesday 29th October 2008: Education and Teachers and Online CommunitiesUnderstanding Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 for Teacher – what are the students doing online with creativity and knowledge? dangers and opportunities, resources for teachers and good sites, blogs, wikis (still taking suggestions, blog readers!) and the way forward including a teacher online community for teacher to teacher (p2p)support. Continue Reading…

Social Media: Short form long form continuous DIY

 Citizen Journalism, Education, Featured, Online Communities, social media, social networks, virtual world  6 Responses »
May 112008
 

Note: Social Media is user-generated, member created, content. Not interactive stuff from a web agency or traditional media company.I’ve been following 5min_tech on Twitter for a while now. 5min – Find the Best How To, instructional and DIY videos – people uploading 5 min videos to educate other people. It’s called a videopedia. Kinda cool to have people doing stuff for free – how many businesses are having their models threatened now? I would be shoving the videos I usually sell up in 5min chunks on this site, and then using it to promote my live tutorials, workshops and labs Continue Reading…

Different types of Social Networks

 Online Communities, social networks, user generated content  4 Responses »
Nov 212007
 

Caveat: There’s a lot of different ways of slicing and dicing social networks. In this post, I want to show the three fundamental approaches that social networks use for activity around social media. If I was writing about identity, profile and management of friends, it would be a whole different grouping of examples.. I think. Another caveat: blogs are a technology, not a social network, so they can be used in different ways e.g. a PR blog is one-to-many, but you can have group blogs (few-to-many). They can be link sites (post a link) or media blogs (whack up video, Continue Reading…

Australia: Dr Dale Spender and DigiKids

 Children, Education, Media  2 Responses »
May 262007
 

(hat tip: Dave N Wallace)Ms Ella and I were discussing Digi-kids and a new way of learning over coffee this afternoon. I’m going to post quite a bit of the article here because SMH doesn’t believe in the long tail and often removes articles after a time. Dr Dale Spender first starts by discussing what happens when ancient old pollies get to make policy decisions for Gen Y and the Millennium Babies: In a recent speech intended to outline his policy for Australia’s educational future, the Prime Minister spent a great deal of time dwelling on his past. John Howard’s Continue Reading…

Go Wiki Go!

 Online Communities  1 Response »
Feb 052006
 

Wiki done gone and caught themselves another plagiarist. Funny cartoon here.Tim Ryan, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter whose plagiarism was recently discovered by Wikipedia editors, has been dismissed after additional instances of plagiarism were reported. This brought his tenure to an end last week after more than twenty years at the newspaper.The above is a quote from wikipedia, who have caught more than their fair share of plagiarists lately. See, I nearly always attribute my sources. Two questions though. First, if high school students, nay primary school kids can work out that their teacher will Google sentences from their essays and Continue Reading…

Centres for Higher Learning Now an Access Node

 Education, Online Communities  No Responses »
Nov 282005
 

Yeah yeah this report has been around for a while, but it has new meaning now with collaborative user generated education just around the corner:The public directly accesses dot-com or dot-org information sources far more than those of higher education institutions…The college or university has gone from the “center” to an “access node” on the knowledge network.Educase is a splendiferous resource for any teacher or educator who wants to comprehend the strategy and changes inherent with the move towards emergent technologies in education. Case in point? Wiki education delivered by wikibooks. In this eSchoolNews article a revolution is quietly occurring.The Continue Reading…