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Monthly Archives: September 2009
What Is It Like to Be A Student Today? ~ Generation Y, Social Learning, & User Assistance
This post includes Dr. Michael Wesch’s video “A Vision of Students Today,” with a list of characteristics describing today’s social-media-saavy learner. It also provides implications for technical communicators, based on posts by Tom Johnson (How to Avoid Extinction as a Technical Communicator) and Ellis Pratt (Is the future of education also the future of technical communication?). Continue reading
Posted in TechCom: Trends
Tagged A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch and the students of "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, audience analysis in technical communication, education trends, Flare 5 and DITA publishing capabilities, Generation Y, millenial learners, single sourcing, social learners, technical communication trends
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How Social Media Is Changing the Way I Think
This post explores my personal reasons for blogging, with a focus on blogging to learn and social learning. Describes how social learniing is changing the way I think, making me more of a visual learner. Continue reading
Don't Miss New E-Book: "Social Media's Collective Wisdom: Simplifying Marketing with Social Media"
This post announces the release of C.B. Whittemore’s recently released e-book, “Social Media’s Collective Wisdom: Simplifying Marketing with Social Media.” In this e-book, Whittemore distills tools and approaches from the first 26 participants, all social media practioners, in her ongoing Social Media Series: Bridging New & Old, to help jump start the process of implementing social media in organizations. Continue reading
Social Media: Also About Learning, Teaching, and Helping
In a series of posts this summer, I have been reflecting on my personal use of social media, especially Twitter, trying to explain as much to myself as to any potential readers here, what exactly it is I’m doing on Facebook, this … Continue reading
Links of Note: Search Engine Marketing (Get to the Point Newsletters from MarketingProfs, Summer 09)
This post lists and describes a selection of MarketingProfs Get to the Po!nt newsletters on search engine marketing, which ran between June and August 2009. The newsletters provide entertaining abstracts and actionable SEO/SEM tips from these online marketing blogs: Search Engine Land, TopRank Online Marketing Blog, Search Engine Guide, MarketingProfs, and Search Engine Watch. Continue reading
Catch the Wave: 3rd Annual Detroit Hydrocephalus WALK (Part II)
Jenn Bechard, Co-Chair of the Detroit Hydrocephalus WALK, guests posts in the ongoing Live with Abundance series, which focuses on using social media for good. Jenn shares her thoughts on how 343 people turned out on August 2nd 2009 to walk for a cure to Hydrocephalus. She also shares her own goals for continuing to make a difference. Continue reading
Posted in Social Media for Good: The Live with Abundance Series
Tagged 3rd Annual Detroit Hydrocephalus WALK, Detroit Hydrocephalus Walk, Hakim Programmable Shunt by Johnson & Johnson Codman, Hydrocephalus, Johnson & Johnson Codman, Live with Abundance series, Live with Abundance Series: Social Media for Good, social media for social good, Twitter
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Catch the Wave: 3rd Annual Detroit Hydrocephalus WALK (Part I)
Jenn Bechard, Co-Chair of the Detroit Hydrocephalus WALK, guests posts in the ongoing Live with Abundance series, which focuses on using social media for good. Jenn shares her thoughts on how 343 people turned out on August 2nd 2009 to walk for a cure to Hydrocephalus. She shares how Isaiah and Kadyn are beating the odds, and how those who suffer from hydrocephalus deserve more than quick fix treatments. Continue reading