President Obama and Social Media

Posted May 14, 2009

We all know that President Obama ran the most social media centered campaign in history as references by this New York Times Article, How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power.

H1N1, the CDC and Twitter

Posted May 06, 2009

It’s easy to see how the first two are related. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the agency in charge of tracking the H1N1 (aka Swine Flu). Recently the CDCs twitter account reached 40,000 followers.

Social Networking Guide for Parents

Posted April 03, 2009

As part of my regular professional development, I have a group of education technology professionals I follow on Twitter. Through following this group of people, I learn about what they are reading and viewing and how they are applying this to their schools. One site that came up recently is Facebook for parents by BJ [...]

Search.Twitter.com and Hash Tags

Posted March 10, 2009

At our edSocialMedia Bootcamp this past February, the first thing we had participants do was to create a Twitter account and asked them to use the #edSocialMedia hash tag anytime they twittered that day. Hash tags are a great way to follow events without following people. By using http://search.twitter.com or http://hashtags.org anyone could quickly follow [...]

Social Media – Part II – The Long Tail

Posted February 16, 2009

“The Long Tail was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article to describe the niche strategy of businesses, such as Amazon.com or Netflix, that sell a large number of unique items, each in relatively small quantities.” (Wikipedia) The Long Tail became relevant to me as I connected with education technologists [...]

Wrapping My Head Around Social Media – Part 1

Posted January 22, 2009

As I begin to blog here at edSocialMedia, I’m going to show how I began to start to wrap my head around Social Media. I’m the Director of Technology at a K-12 Independent School. Part of my job is to keep up with current trends in technology and apply them to education. Pre-2005, most of [...]