We at edSocialMedia are excited about sponsoring this weekend’s TEDxNYED event being hosted by our friends at Collegiate School. I have the lucky task of representing ESM at the event, and I plan to take …

Thanks to our friends at WhippleHill for this video of the excellent Keynote address by Ben Jones, VP for Communications at Oberlin College and former Director of Communications for the MIT Office of Admissions. Ben …

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A conversation from the ESM Summit about the social media impact on the evolution of teaching with Hans Mundahl (New Hampton School), Peter Gow (BCDS), David Bill (The …

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 …

I’m a skeptic. When people tell me that something is free I generally don’t believe them. There is always some cost and while I may not be taking my wallet out of my pocket there is always some payment that has to be made.

Because of this mindset, the idea that social media is free isn’t something that I bought into right away. The idea that our school could use social media to communicate, market and share information with our vast constituencies was incredible. To my joy, as I looked at some of the major sites and service I would be using I found that they were indeed, for the most part, completely without cost.

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 …

I’ve become a big fan of the power of social media in general and live video in particular to help me reach learner outcomes and create student engagement. This video goes into how I got …

When I first jumped on Twitter it was to follow people I met at events, conferences or folks I was already connected to on other social networks.
Then to my surprise people started following me who …

What is your flu plan?If you are like most schools, you will spend some time during opening of school meetings discussing the Swine Flu.  Its arrival seems inevitable but how much it will affect students, …

Why your school or district needs guidelines for social networking–Before the start of school this fall.
Over coffee and the Sunday New York Times we were still finishing Thursday morning of our beach week my sister …