Tango on the Table: Snazzing up the wiki

My Social Software workshop is running on Wednesday so it seemed like today was fine time to peek into the Blogs, Wikis & More wiki to make sure the links were working order and that the PBwiki transition to PBworks didn’t gum up anything.  Instead, I tackled the pressing problem of unattractive graphics.
For a couple [...]

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7 Things You Should Know About Ning

I gave Ning a try way back when I had unlimited time to try virtually every new social software that came to my attention, but I just didn’t get it.  Or rather, I didn’t get sucked into it, so it’s fallen by the wayside.  Perhaps a gander at Educause’s latest broadsheet,  7 Things You Should [...]

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31 Flavors of Social Media

New video from The Common Craft Show: Social Media in Plain English

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Getting Wiki Buy-In

I’m getting better at this, but every now and then I think “what a great opportunity for a wiki”, I spend a lot of time setting it up, I share it with a group or team, and then it fails miserably because no one else seems to think the wiki is worth their time.
With any [...]

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Have I Blogged You Lately That I’m Awesome?

A recent junk folder find:
Hey Genneaux!

Your slideshow Tools of Engagement: Reaching through Collaboration has been featured on the SlideShare homepage by our editorial team.
- the SlideShare Team
p.s. Why not blog this and let the world know about your awesome creation?
Why not indeed? Maybe this is what I need– encouragement from my [...]

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Podcasting in Plain English

Teaching Social Software to students and colleagues gets easier with every In Plain English video from the Common Craft Show. With the addition of Podcasting in Plain English I’ve got a full slate of excellent teaching tools.
I’m also a fan of the 7 Things You Should Know About… series from Educause. While the [...]

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SlideShare, angering my generous heart

I want to like SlideShare, I really do. How could you not like something that calls itself the YouTube of PowerPoints? Okay, that’s a bad way to start that conversation. There are dozens of ways I could not like something called the YouTube of PowerPoints, the first two being “YouTube” and “PowerPoints”, [...]

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Making Noise with Online Reviews

I’m a great fan of Yelp– it brings out the repressed restaurant critic in me, plus my mom gets a kick out of my reviews.  Popgadget brought a new site to my attention– Place Shout.  Basically, Place Shout is Yelp for folks with Twitter sensibilities– mini reviews from the city of your choice in 100 [...]

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“Shut the hell up, brats!” but not in so many words

There’s a lively little discussion going on on a listserv to which I subscribe that has featured any number of Library Directors coming out of the closet and basically admitting that they hate their students.
Ostensibly, the conversation is about the tenuous balance between letting students use computers for their wide and varied computer needs and [...]

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Still bending Facebook to my will

A colleague and I met today to form a task force of two (or a task force of 2.0–ha!) to discuss how we can conquer the world with all the wondrous collaborative technologies we will be surreptitiously integrating into our milieu.  There’s a lot of awesome words in that sentence, aren’t there?  I haven’t eaten [...]

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