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Digital Tattoos? Who Gives a Shit?

16. March 2010

I cursed on the Internet. My professional career is over. Let this be a lesson to all those little snots on social media that “everything you say and do on the Interwebs can be used against you in the nebulous future”.

New Utility Allows You to Control Facebook Accounts Without the Password

21. October 2009

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FBConTroller v2.0 was released late yesterday. As the author clearly states, FBController does not, nor can it, hack into a Facebook account. What it CAN do though is to control a Facebook account (write on one’s own wall, others wall, retrieve profile page, retrieve friends list and even attempts to retrieve inbox and send messages) [...]

Social Network Failure: What Happened to MySpace? #fail

12. October 2009

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Social Network Failure: What Happened to MySpace? #fail

It seems like forever ago when I last wrote about MySpace on .eduGuru. Actually it was over a year and a half ago when I was exploring Social Media Sites for Higher Education Marketing, but one quote still stands out as an accurate way to describe MySpace.

Join Us for a Pre-HighEdWeb Saturday Night Tweetup

25. September 2009

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Hey everyone! Are you getting into Milwaukee a little bit early for HighEdWeb this year? Then be sure to join myself and Rachel for a Tweetup at Mo’s Irish Pub Saturday night at 8:00PM. We’ll gather in the hotel lobby of the Hilton about 10 minutes ahead of time and walk down to the pub [...]

Are Teens on Twitter? And a Bunch of Other Related Data

28. August 2009

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Are Teens on Twitter? And a Bunch of Other Related Data

I’m going to go ahead and admit that this post kind of turned into a resource with a whole lot of links to other articles. Maybe some of you have seen the article on the New York Times website titled Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teenagers.

eduWEB Takeaway: It’s About the People

3. August 2009

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When Robin Smail and I were asked to do our Twitter Me This? presentation for eduWEB, we looked at the schedule. Looked like the talented like Aaron Rester would be covering twitter and Matt Hertzberger would be covering social media until Robin and I got to the after-lunch bunch.

Division III Releases Social Networking Rule Change for Communicating with Prospective Student-Athletes

22. July 2009

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Division III Releases Social Networking Rule Change for Communicating with Prospective Student-Athletes

The Division III Management Council just released their newly adopted “noncontroversial change to the Division III electronic transmissions limitations.” They’ve given it a retroactive effective date of August 1, 2008 to match when their original legislation went into effect. They’ve also released this article: “DIII Council opens up use of social-networking media“

Everything I Wanted to Learn About My Career I Learned From Twitter

17. July 2009

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Everything I Wanted to Learn About My Career I Learned From Twitter

Years ago, when I was bored, I’d get sucked into something like Minesweeper and stay up too late playing the damn thing. Then I’d have dreams of flags and bombs where if I woke up in the middle of the dream, I’d have that feeling of quitting before I cleared a board. The same thing [...]

Social Networking Research: 99% of Your Audience Are On Them, Still Need More Convincing?

2. June 2009

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This data from the Participatory Marketing Network (PMN) was simply too compelling. The article talks about how the majority of Gen Y have not yet taken flight on Twitter claiming that only 22% of 18-24 year olds are on it. However, you could flip this data to say that almost a quarter of them are [...]