Nancy and Suzy Explore Twitter

"...[A]n online interaction designer, facilitator and coach... working with a puppet" to help people get a handle on social media (Community Matters, Vimeo, Wed, Feb 16, 2011):

 

Nancy White & Suzy - An Intro to Twitter 

from CommunityMatters on Vimeo.

Twitterers out there: Are they telling it like it is?

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Exhibit A: a Slideshow from Flickr

The slideshow below shows pictures from Exhibit A, an online, public picture collection of copyright-protected images that I have on Flickr. Flickr is an easy to use photo-sharing site.

Do you recognize anything in the pictures? Have you been where they were taken?

If you do, great! Please post a comment letting us know how and when. If not, can you guess what the pictures show, or where they were taken? Which do you think are the best?

If you have questions about any of the pictures in Exhibit A after checking out the details, please shout out in comments on this post. If you're interested in Flickr, here is "what you [can] get with a free account:

• 300 MB monthly photo upload limit (15MB per photo)
• 2 video uploads each month (90 seconds max, 150MB per video)
• Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images
• Post any of your photos in up to 10 group pools
• Only smaller (resized) images accessible [to the public] (though the originals are saved in case you upgrade later)[.]

(Free Accounts..., 2011.06.10)

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Social Media and Social Networking Explained

This post contains two videos that I discovered in a post on Jacqui's Ask a Tech Teacher blog (Social Media--What the Heck is This All About??), which in turn I had discovered via a post on the Learning with Computers group blog (Personal Start Pages), on which I've been following comments for almost a year now. They are produced by Lee and Sachi LeFever, and licensed for non-commercial use.

I always enjoy the clever, quick-paced presentations in their "in Plain English" series, and the animated visual reinforcement makes the concepts easy to understand. Please take a look at one or both of these two, and leave a comment to let me know whether you enjoy and learn from them, too.

Social Media in Plain English

"A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media" (leelefever, YouTube, May 28, 2008).

Retrieved October 13, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE#

Social Networking in Plain English

"A short explanation of social networking websites and why they are popular" (leelefever, YouTube, June 27, 2007).

Retrieved October 13, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc

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