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September 12, 2009 at 8:19 am | 4 Comments

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President Obama and Social Media
Thursday, 14 May, 2009 – 8:30 | No Comment
President Obama and Social Media

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
Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 – 6:54 | 3 Comments
H1N1, the CDC and Twitter

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 …

Social Networking Guide for Parents
Friday, 3 Apr, 2009 – 21:04 | One Comment
Social Networking Guide for Parents

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 …

Search.Twitter.com and Hash Tags
Tuesday, 10 Mar, 2009 – 20:24 | No Comment
Search.Twitter.com and Hash Tags

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.  …

Social Media – Part II – The Long Tail
Monday, 16 Feb, 2009 – 17:12 | 2 Comments
Social Media – Part II – The Long Tail

“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 …

Wrapping My Head Around Social Media – Part 1
Thursday, 22 Jan, 2009 – 15:04 | 8 Comments
Wrapping My Head Around Social Media – Part 1

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 …