Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Social Media Tools Are Like Phones

From Chris Brogan’s blog, Social Media Tools Are Like Phones
“One thing we misunderstand frequently when talking about how great and amazing social media is comes from the fact that we’re thinking from the perspective of what we want the tool to do while the people who are receiving the message might be thinking about the tools [...]

Friday, September 26th, 2008

danah boyd on social media and teenagers

Danah Boyd, one of the key researchers on the use of social media, is joining the microsoft research
 team to work on social networking
here is a link to a fascinating talk she has just given there about how teenagers use social media .
(scroll down to find her talk)
 
Here is the abstract for her talk

Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena [...]

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

workliteracy

I’ve just joined a free online workhop on work literacy looking at using social media run by 3 of the bestedubloggers around, michele martin,    harold jarche,and tony karrer .Its run as a ning site, which I’m keen to see how it works as i have been toying with using ning to set up a social [...]