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Entries Tagged as 'social media'

Why the #140conf in Hutchinson?

October 26th, 2010

Next Monday we will meet in Hutchinson to talk about social media and what it’s doing for Small Towns.

A social media hidden gem

September 24th, 2010

The Varsity Kansas blog covers area high school sports and is part of the Wichita Eagle media cabal. Wichita is under served in the sports blog category*but Joanna Chadwick almost makes up for the shortage by herself. She covers high school sports for the Eagle and is a the blogger-in-chief for Varsity Kansas. She also [...]

Like, LOL

September 15th, 2010

Twitter is like totally Susan’s BFF! Like, OMG.

Good news for Chiefs fans

September 11th, 2009

you may not have much fun on the field but you can have a great social media experience while you suffer through the season.

Lowering the annoyance quotient on Facebook

June 24th, 2009

Spacefem finds Facebook, “a depository of uninteresting people” (especially the baby-centric flavor of certain unnamed accounts). She has also found a way to deal  with (i.e. block) some of the mind-numbing aspects of its “colorful” quizzes and applications economy.

Thoughts on this Twitter thing

May 19th, 2009

As Twitter moves from “cool” to “popular” (which means no one “cool” will like it any more) What reaction should there be from the early adopters? Cherp has some thoughts.

This was not a fight (now updated and corrected)

May 14th, 2009

This was a disagreement, with a bit of name-calling. It was really a Twitter thing between A California Girl in Kansas and Toddblog but it also played out in the blogosphere.
Acgik went first.
Then Toddblog responded (and he shows the Twitter posts to get you non-tweeters up to speed)
Transparency interlude: (switch off first person plural) I [...]

We have nothing to lose but our pajamas

April 30th, 2009

Why do we blog? Are we just in it for the Internet Millions™ or is there something more important at work? John B. has some interesting thoughts to chew on.
Karen, at Delano Wichita has some thoughts along the same lines.

Some sanity on social media

April 4th, 2009

It is either proclaimed as the end of civilization or the answer to all humankind’s ills. Denice just enjoys it for what it is.
Douglas and Main agrees with Ms. Bruce wholeheartedly on this matter and you can follow the XO and janitorial facilitator of Douglas and Main on Twitter at @bobbyrozzell.

We knew him when

March 25th, 2009

Long before he was @toddblog he was Todd Ramsey, blogger. Now he is Todd, social media educator.

If no one follows any one

March 24th, 2009

Then Twitter becomes unworkable.
The Tweeps who build giant followings without following anyone are either people we want to gawk at (see Cherp’s man-crush confession) or they produce interesting content (CNN doesn’t follow alot of people either.) They are a different breed of bird than the rest of us and add spice to the Twitterverse.

thoughts later deleted

March 20th, 2009

Questions about social media and self and identity. Really, they are the same questions we have to answer about face-to-face interaction. The computer-mediated thing allows some wiggle room but ultimately the question is, “who do I want to appear to be to other people?”

Are you contemplating a Second Life?

March 13th, 2009

Let Cerebrate take your hand, virtually of course, and guide you into the world of Second Life. This is the first of five sessions.

Social media, starting thoughts

February 25th, 2009

Businesses looking to get involved in social media are the intended audience for these posts but the information is valuable for any one trying to sort out the confusing world of online interaction.
Social Media Saturation– Part 1
Social Media Saturation– Part 2

Please take my money

February 19th, 2009

Twitter could make David’s day if it would just charge a little fee for their service. It’s not about coin, it’s about value.

Just your Standard Answer

February 16th, 2009

A California Girl in Kansas has a new internet project and she invites you to participate.

Unlimited online poker

January 9th, 2009

The Greteman Group shares their social media policy for employees. You can share your own companies policy in the comments.

It’s not what you say, it’s what they think

January 7th, 2009

Reputation management on the internet; the hows, the whys and the help available.

Private YouTube, reporting for duty.

January 2nd, 2009

The Israeli government has created their own YouTube channel to get their message out. Laura says they are not stopping there:
The IDF Foreign Press Branch has also delivered briefings to bloggers around the world, and staff members are preparing to start their own vodcasts — video diaries — to discuss their feelings about the conflict [...]

Kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls’ porch

January 2nd, 2009

Predictions for social media in the year 2009. David Kamerer has the links.

The beginning of the end

December 15th, 2008

Oh my sweet, simple Facebook. What have you become?

You’re not doing it right

December 8th, 2008

Social media. Lot’s of businesses are trying to ride the “new thing” while making it just like the old thing. The missing (ignored?) ingredient in most attempts at social media is the social part,
And real isn’t about this new product, or that new sale… real is about what’s going on in your head, what you’re [...]

What the judge has on his Blackberry

November 28th, 2008

A list of lawyers who Twitter and posts about courtroom Twitterers.

I guess this means “no” to my Ning invite

November 21st, 2008

Carrie hits the social media wall.

An overload of tools

November 17th, 2008

to help with information overload. A list of the top 100 learning tools. Sadly the number 2 pencil did not make this year’s list. All Ticonderoga grieves.

Six Random Facts: Quick thoughts edition

November 17th, 2008

The Wilson Triplets’ feeder of the Beast and Dad.
How he met their mother, bar bands and one, at least, hand dug grave.

Links-a-plenty

November 14th, 2008

A shovel full of sites to help you deal with the information avalanche that is the web.

This internet thing may catch on

November 13th, 2008

The Obama campaign put social media to good use and there are lessons to be learned.

Obama online

November 10th, 2008

The President-elect continues the use of social media to connect to the American people.

Social media and the election

November 7th, 2008

YouTube and Twitter didn’t exist four years ago but they played a major role in Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. A look at how he used these, as well as other digital tools, to raise money and sway voters.

A tool a week, that’s all they ask

October 30th, 2008

Lots of Web 2.0 tools to learn, and now a site to help you master them.

More enabling behavior

October 20th, 2008

Think you have seen it all on Twitter. Think again (both links.)
Cindy offers to help you with  your social media questions and needs. She begins with a little primer on the difference between profiles, pages and groups on Facebook.

Since you brought the subject up

October 20th, 2008

The hit song that is sweeping the nation, Or another lame YouTube attempt to cash in on the latest fad? You decide.
You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter.

All a Twitter

October 20th, 2008

Douglas and Main is down with the home skillets on the whole Twitter craze. We picked up this little gem from a Tweet from David Kamerer.
Savor the many ways to taste Twitter. For more tasty treats on the world of social media check out the good doctor’s blog.

Contest time!

October 15th, 2008

he hasn’t announced the prizes yet but Todd has a caption-the-picture contest going. Creative powers activate!
Oh yeah, he is part of a lot of panels lately too.