Thought Leaders vs Company Bloggers
Now that businesses have all rushed to have Twitter and Facebook profiles and to maintain company blogs, has the onslaught of information made it actually more difficult to get your message heard?
Business strategy and information technology consultant Stowe Boyd wrote a blog post on Thursday entitled “Thought Leadership: Beyond Marketing” in which he suggests that the rise of social media might be making us immune to marketing. Boyd suggests that startups might benefit from rethinking how they position themselves online to land on the side of that signal-to-noise ratio so that they’re actually heard.
The Emotional Web
Online communities and resources focused on peoples’ emotional health have been around for a while. This includes the youth space through efforts like icouldbe.org’s online mentoring community which has been around for the past 10 years. And other resources tailored to help youth deal with particular issues, such as thesafespace.org to help prevent and cope […]
Mobile Learning Growing in Africa
Mobile is playing an increasingly important role in learning in Africa. The following are excerpts from a recent article in Education Week entitled “Mobile Devices Deliver Learning in Africa,” by Michelle Davis. School-age children across Africa often don’t have access to a formal education. They may live in remote rural areas or in violence-plagued regions […]
Vernacular Video Culture in Education
A video by Howard Rheingold discussing collaborative learning and video.
Cloud-Based, Open-Source For Teachers?
A computing device for every teacher and student so they can access the Internet at school or at home? That, along with an embrace of cloud computing, Creative Commons, and open-source technologies is part of a new set of recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education.
Virtual Worlds as Scientific Tools
Virtual worlds have grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and their applications in expressing political messages and building competitive online-based businesses seem to expand with each new release. But what about scholars at universities and think tanks who hope to use virtual worlds and the social microcosms they create as part of serious academic study?
Web 2.0 Expo Keynote with Chris Brogan
The Web 2.0 Expo in the Javits Center in Manhattan was excellent. It was an event that was not to be missed if your company was willing to shell out the fees to attend.
Why Mobile? Rick Rasansky and Roy Rosin
Mobile executives discuss why it is important for e-learning and web developers to be paying attention to mobile development (in the video below).
Google Labs + News = Living Stories
Google Labs always has something interesting for me to explore in online media. This time the guys at Google in conjunction with the Washington Post and The New York Times are tackling online news. I think this tool has allot of value, and if it is adopted widely it could change the way we discover, read and research news topics, using online news outlets.
Connectivism And Modern Literacy
In the 20th century literacy was the “ability to read and write”. The subset of skills necessary to be called literate has changed greatly and the definitions has expanded…