Tag Archives: twitter
Morning Musings: Do you have the new twitter yet?
It’s a little over 3 weeks since Twitter announced the new web interface for their popular social network, and as promised many users are now beginning to experience the “new” twitter. The roll out for the new layout has been slated for release over the past few weeks, and many are still waiting. The new [...]
Morning Musings: Is Indiana an unhappy place for Twitter users?
A new study by the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science displays a time-lapse visualization of the moods of twitter users throughout the United States. The visualization goes through two cycles, plotted from over 300 million tweets gathered from 2006 to 2009 by researches from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Each state [...]
Morning Musings: What's on your Social Media Resume?
Google-ing yourself. Everyone’s done it before, and you may even check the results on a regular basis just to see if you’ve moved up in relevancy on the big G. Most of us have a morbid curiosity to check up on our selves through the lens of the internet and see if anyone has mentioned us [...]
Morning Musings: Are you friends with your boss on Facebook?
Over on Mashable this morning, the results of the Liberty Mutual Responsibility project were highlighted showing that those surveyed felt it was irresponsible to be friends with your boss on Facebook, check Facebook at work, and tweet at work. One thing to keep in mind when looking at this survey is sample size, and in [...]
Morning Musings: Only half of all Tweets are in english
Semiocast, a French based consulting group, conducted a study over a two-day period (Feb. 8 thru Feb 10) examining close to 3 million tweets this February and found some interesting results. Semiocast’s study found that out of those 3 million tweets, roughly 1.5 million of them were not in English. The english language only popped [...]
Half Day Conference in a Box – Education & Technology Edition
The ongoing economic woes have slashed travel budgets for many, including those in the education realm, and many have had to get creative in participating in the conversation or in finding new tools & information.
I have compiled my own Conference in a Box with a theme of education and technology. You may recognize some of the speakers, or topics, but my hope is that you find something new that you may have missed by not attending a conference.
Educause 2009 – Join the Conversation!
Denver Colorado is being invaded! The Educause 2009 conference kicks off tomorrow morning in Denver Colorado with pre-conference sessions, and will continue through out the rest of the week ending on Friday. For those that may not be familiar with Educause, or it’s annual conference, it is “a non-profit association whose mission is to advance [...]
Google Apps for Education Centralized & Pushed
President Obama challenged today’s students to be as innovative and creative as Google, Facebook, and Twitter with the way each of these tools has changed the way we communicate with each other. It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this [...]
Teens & Twitter: Followup
For those following the constant and ever changing coverage of whether teens tweet or not, a new comScore study released today, shows that teens between ages of 12 & 17 make up the strongest amount of growth in new users of the service. Courtesy of comScore An interesting concept from Mashable is the idea that [...]