New Year’s Resolutions. We all have them, or at least most of us flirt with the notion of starting the new year with a fresh approach, a new goal or maybe just trying to avoid …

A word of thanks to the folks over at WhippleHill Communications for streaming my keynote at the edSocialMedia Bootcamp at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, MA. Over 20 independent school professionals in all areas of …

edSocialMedia invites you to submit proposals for workshops at the 1st Annual edSocialMedia Summit in Boston, MA on February 16th, 2010. We seek workshops that will help faculty and administrators break through today’s challenges and …

Update
Keynote by Ben Jones (Oberlin College) Streaming Live now.

Are you trying to understand the buzz around social media and questioning what it really means for your school?
Do you need a better grasp of the …

I have recently had several conversations with colleagues and friends regarding how to distinguish between your “public” social media presence and your “private” one. Let me explain what I mean by public and private. Many …

A few weeks ago, Peter Baron, Steve Ritchie and I traveled down to Seguin, Texas outside of San Antonio to spend the day with a fantastic group of social media innovators from several area universities. …

I say, don’t be! This morning I came across an interesting article by Denise Zimmerman over at iMedia Connection called “4 signs you’re a social media failure” and in it she describes how this year …

The deadline for new contributors is now closed. We want to thank all of you who submitted your creditentials and hope to announce our new contributors/bloggers in the coming week.
Thanks,
The edSocialMedia Team

It seems like no matter how hard I try, serving as an administrator at independent school with 655 students and 150 employees during the months of April and May reminds of riding The Comet roller coaster at The Great Escape in Lake George, New York. I mean, seriously, how many of us really have the time to devote to maintaining a social media presence, let alone cultivate and foster the many meaningful networks and relationships we belong too?

Join us in welcoming Kerri Richardson as a contributor to edSocialMedia. Kerri serves as the Director of Academic Technology at Brooklyn Friends School in Brooklyn, NY.
Kerri received her undergraduate degree at Wesleyan and completed her …