School's out
Thu, May 20, 2010 Filed in: Social Media
Teaching social media as a professional tool to grad students has been an interesting learning experience. Having a background in television production, web production and living in social media, I was considered a “rare hybrid” in a “unique position to teach.” Ok, well, lets see about that. Going in, my assumption was I wouldn’t be teaching too much. Don’t 20 year olds know all about this stuff? I fully expected to learn more then teach. All the “press” going in was “the kids know all this stuff.” All the jokes about how parents have their 12 year old fix the printer. The 10 year old is “helpdesk.” So, the first day, the first question I ask was “how many people have a Facebook account. A few hands go up. Yikes. “How many have a Twitter account?” Fewer hands. Well, it seems I will be teaching after all. Read More...
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Twitter 1 Everyplace Else Zero
Two good things happened to me this morning. I found out about Conan O’Brien’s new show on TBS. And I can unsubscribe to about 12 newsletters. Read More...
Pew report not a surprise
Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism surveyed 2000 people by phone and mobile and came up with this result: people get their news from multiple places. Duh! Read More...
Must See NASA-TV
Tue, December 08, 2009 Filed in: NASA | Television
Making pocket protectors entertaining and not looking too stupid in the process. In short, That’s what NASA Edge has to do. Also, make it cheap...to produce. Edge does this pretty well. Well, I’m assuming they are making it cheap since they are still around. Read More...