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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Beware of invitations to “connect” Twitter and Facebook accounts to other web services

    If you’re a Twitter user, chances are fairly good you’ve seen at least one message in the past month (or maybe lots more) inviting you join someone’s “Mafia family.” What are these strange and unwanted messages? According to Kern Kelly, who I visited with this evening following the ACTEM 09 banquet, some messages like this…

  • Social Media Change Agents Must First Enlist the Support of Top Leaders

    Josh Bernoff, co-author with Charlene Li of the book “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies,” has specific recommendations for organizational revolutionaries who want to use social media in transformational ways to change cultures of work and service. In this ten minute interview, Josh discusses the importance of winning over the top leader…

  • Google Docs Adds Folder Sharing

    I spend a fairly large amount of time each week working in Google Documents. Since I share multiple documents with the different groups of people for different projects, I was delighted to learn today that Google Docs now permits “Folder Sharing.” After you create a folder in Google Docs, right click (control click on a…

  • Remember to turn YouTube channel comment moderation ON

    My recent experiences moderating comments on a relatively popular YouTube video have led to lots of learning, and the most recent example concerns YouTube “channel” comment moderation. By default, all comment moderation is turned OFF when you upload a video to YouTube, and moderation is turned OFF for comments people leave on your channel. Channel…

  • Podcast331: Leveraging the Potential of Social Media for School Public Relations

    This podcast is a recorded presentation from the 2009 Oklahoma School Public Relations Association conference at Quartz Mountain on April 23, 2009. This session, presented by Wesley Fryer, was titled, “Leveraging the Potential of Social Media for School Public Relations.” The official presentation description was: Social media technologies offer excellent opportunities for school public relations…

  • Dean Shareski at ITSC 2010

    Dean Shareski is going to be presenting several GREAT sessions about visual literacy, why sharing matters, Twitter, and RSS at the 2010 ITSC conference in Portland, Oregon in February. In this 4 minute YouTube video, Dean gives a preview to his sessions. What a great teaser video! If I was going to ITSC this year,…

  • Educon 2.2 in Philly: January 29 – 31, 2010

    Chris Lehmann posted the “EduCon 2.2 — Call For Conversations and Registration” about a week ago. I have not been able to attend EduCon in person yet, but the presentations I’ve seen online and experienced vicariously through the blog post reflections and notes of others have been phenomenal. If there’s any way you can get…

  • Tools to simplify meeting scheduling

    Doodle remains one of my all-time favorite web 2.0 tools, as a browser-based, platform independent scheduling tool to identify open meeting dates and times for any group. I recently learned about ScheduleOnce, which also offers a free, online scheduling tool. ScheduleOnce’s conference planner also looks good for setting up phone calls or videoconferences with people…

  • Where do you find the time? Shirky’s Answer

    This past Thursday night, I was delighted to be a guest on the Seedlings’ show on EdTechTalk, hosted by Alice Barr, Bob Sprankle, and Cheryl Oakes. My daughter, Sarah, joined us for the conversation and chimed in with both her ideas and questions for other participants. Near the end of the show, Bob asked me…

  • A hazard of moderating comments on a popular YouTube video

    I’m glad to still be moderating comments on Sarah’s video response to President Obama’s speech to students several weeks ago, rather than leaving comments open without moderation. The video has received over 180,000 views worldwide to date, and while the comment discussion has thankfully become MUCH less active than it was immediately following the speech,…