Sunday, May 03, 2009
Social Media Tools
Social Media tools first provided the tip for this SlideShare resource about using Social Media tools via a re-tweet (RT) from my social network @moodleman on Twitter.
Choosing & Using Social Media Tools presentation on SlideShare by LaDonna Coy.
Additional links add to its value for those who want to explore further - a wiki for the 'Texas Spring Collaboration Meeting' (April 28, 2009) Austin, Texas. (Stephanie Nestlerode and LaDonna Coy) and the 'Remix the Social Media Game Wiki' (original game developed by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter).
If you are interested in exploring the whole gamut of social media tools and their potential, this is a very useful resource. The 'Remix the Social Media Game Wiki' provides access to some workshop materials including scenarios which prompt teams to consider the selection of appropriate tools to meet their different communication needs.
All resources are provided under a Creative Commons license.
Choosing & Using Social Media Tools presentation on SlideShare by LaDonna Coy.
Additional links add to its value for those who want to explore further - a wiki for the 'Texas Spring Collaboration Meeting' (April 28, 2009) Austin, Texas. (Stephanie Nestlerode and LaDonna Coy) and the 'Remix the Social Media Game Wiki' (original game developed by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter).
Choosing & Using Social Media Tools
View more presentations from Ladonna Coy.
If you are interested in exploring the whole gamut of social media tools and their potential, this is a very useful resource. The 'Remix the Social Media Game Wiki' provides access to some workshop materials including scenarios which prompt teams to consider the selection of appropriate tools to meet their different communication needs.
All resources are provided under a Creative Commons license.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Twitter future trends?
A glimpse into the near future with Twitter trends by Karim Gargum? This slideshow blends insights into the growth and potential of the social media tool, Twitter, and predicts some interesting trends in its development into the future.
The 'always connected, always on' generations should appreciate the convenience and extra functionality of Twitter, lure of mobility and the myriad of cool third party tools responsible for the rapid growth and evolution of of microblogging.
Karim Gargum's predictions will resonate with many in the Twitter community.
10 Twitter Future Trends
View more presentations from Karim_Gargum.
The 'always connected, always on' generations should appreciate the convenience and extra functionality of Twitter, lure of mobility and the myriad of cool third party tools responsible for the rapid growth and evolution of of microblogging.
Karim Gargum's predictions will resonate with many in the Twitter community.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
SouthOz 'heaps good' campaign
A South Australian "Heaps good" (Aussie slang term) campaign has kicked off. The clip on YouTube shows a number of SouthOzzies, dressed in "heaps good" T-shirts in front of selected icons and favourite places.
Exploring Twitter apps
Twitter has spawned a myriad of Twitter third party applications or tools as well as search facilities. Two of my favourite search tools are Twazzup and Twitterfall. Both provide a real time view of the hot topics and trends.
Twitterers can use hashtags to identify key terms which are easily picked up by such search tools.
I like the custom search (multiple) functionality of Twitterfall and the ability to adjust settings, particularly the speed, and themes, view queued tweets and flush if needed. The ability to save and select searches makes Twitterfall really useful.
These add a bit of fun.
When did you join Twitter reveals that I (@southoz) joined Twitter 560 days ago - on 18 October 2007.
After a couple of starts and pauses in 2007 and 2008, I finally caught the Twitter bug early in 2009, before Will Richardson's visit to Adelaide. Twitter has a critical mass of users now, more useful tools, greater use of social media for networking, conferences, meetings, shared resources and global conversations. This makes it an ideal tool for supporting professional learning networks (PLNs).
Twittersheep provides a tag cloud generated from the 'bios' of your flock of followers. View my current Southoz flock word cloud. The words, learning, online, social, teacher, web and education feature prominently in my word cloud.
Twitterers can use hashtags to identify key terms which are easily picked up by such search tools.
I like the custom search (multiple) functionality of Twitterfall and the ability to adjust settings, particularly the speed, and themes, view queued tweets and flush if needed. The ability to save and select searches makes Twitterfall really useful.
These add a bit of fun.
When did you join Twitter reveals that I (@southoz) joined Twitter 560 days ago - on 18 October 2007.
After a couple of starts and pauses in 2007 and 2008, I finally caught the Twitter bug early in 2009, before Will Richardson's visit to Adelaide. Twitter has a critical mass of users now, more useful tools, greater use of social media for networking, conferences, meetings, shared resources and global conversations. This makes it an ideal tool for supporting professional learning networks (PLNs).
Twittersheep provides a tag cloud generated from the 'bios' of your flock of followers. View my current Southoz flock word cloud. The words, learning, online, social, teacher, web and education feature prominently in my word cloud.
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