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How the Web Can Transform Plain Janes to Wonder Women
Submitted by servicewire on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 17:20
Last month Allison Fine started an interesting discussion on her blog about women, social media and influence. Allison wondered if social media might be the X factor that would help women make real strides in closing the leadership gap.
16 Amazing Men on Twitter and the Awesome Charities They Support
Submitted by servicewire on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 10:07
Philippe Cousteau / @Pcousteau Why he rocks: He's a renowned explorer, TV host and sustainability advocate who founded Azure Worldwide, a strategic environmental design, development and marketing company. His favorite Twitter charity: @EarthEcho, which he founded in 2000, with his sister @Acousteau, to honor of their father Philippe Cousteau Sr., famous son of the legendary explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau. This nonprofit's mission is to educate the leaders of tomorrow about the need to restore and protect our Oceans.
Hashtag Advocacy: #Friend or #Foe?
Submitted by servicewire on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 13:53
Guest blogger Brannon Cullum is a graduate intern at the Case Foundation, working on a Masters in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University.
Attention Students, Twitter 101 is now in session
Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 14:49
Guest blogger Brannon Cullum is a graduate intern at the Case Foundation, working on a Masters in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. Her post is part of a series we have been doing on some intersections of social media and the college experience.
Reflecting On 9/11 In the Age of Social Media
Submitted by servicewire on Fri, 09/11/2009 - 17:48
This morning I was in a cab on my way to the airport when I decided to quickly scroll through my email and Twitter feed to see what I might miss while on the five hour flight from DC back to San Francisco. It was very rainy this morning when my plane took off -- nothing like the September 11, that I remember while working on Capitol Hill back in 2001. The sun was beaming off of the Capitol dome and the clear blue skies created a surreal feeling as smoke from the Pentagon billowed in the distance.
This is your brain on social media
Submitted by servicewire on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 09:09
As Millennials everywhere head back to school over the next few weeks, we are going to be thinking and talking about some intersections of social media and the college experience.
This Post is "On The Twecord"
Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 23:31
Whether its the widespread use of social media channels like Twitter and Facebook; the routine nature of publishing content straight from our phones; or the growing use of flipcams and digital cameras to capture moments in time – we are all susceptible to the 24-7 broadcast of our “on the record” lives. What’s more, nearly everyone we interact with whether at work, in the grocery store, or on the metro can be considered a member of the newly defined social media “paparazzi.”
Does Twitter Need a New Code?
Submitted by servicewire on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 09:33
Twitter is not the first technology to confound verbose writers by enforcing character limits. As many people know, Twitter's 140-character limit was modeled off the 160-character limit of SMS. But as Ben Schott’s column in the New York Times this week points out, both of these technologies were far behind another character-limiting message system – the telegraph.
Will the Real Millennials Please Stand Up?
Submitted by servicewire on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 23:46
Earlier this week Matthew Robson, a 15 year old summer intern with Morgan Stanley, made headlines from the Financial Times to Time Magazine for his claim, that among other things, “Twitter is for old people.” While on a two week internship, Robson wrote the report,
Personal Democracy Forum Superlative Roundup
Submitted by servicewire on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 14:46
Personal Democracy Forum (PDF), the largest conference covering the intersection of government and politics, drew about 1,000 people to New York this week for its sixth annual gathering. There were lots of highlights, so I'm just decided to award a few superlatives, but I encourage you to check out the techPresident blog and others for more highlights.
