Standing Against PIPA / SOPA

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This week - not just on Wednesday, January 18th - I am choosing to stand with others against the SOPA / PIPA bills that are before the U.S. Congress that could have negative consequences for free speech and free exchange of ideas and information. Watch the video above and checkout the resources below.

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Watch "Happy New Year" being tweeted around the world

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Twitter just released this beautiful visualization of "Happy New Year" being tweeted at midnight around the world -- tweets per second. View it in full screen mode for best effect. Epic!

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The video above visualizes New Year's Eve Tweet data across the world. The circles get bigger as more Tweets are being sent at that moment, which means it's probably midnight in that timezone. Notice that the circle over Tokyo gets so big it nearly swallows Japan.

Serving Up Social Media in a Sweet Way: iCupCakes

A colleague, Jeramy Johnson of Academic Programs International (API) sent me the photo above. It's cupcakes topped by representations of iPhone / iPad applications presented to him on a special day. Featured are (left to right, top to bottom): Calendar, Photos, Camera, YouTube, Clock, Tweetdeck, Facebook, iPod, email, Phone, Safari and Messages. Sometimes you do [...]

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How Not To... Answer a Student's Email 02

Remember how I said people are talking about you? Here's yet more proof that they are and another entry to add to my "How not to..." series. Recently, a student tweeted: I sent an email to my school's study abroad program and they responded in all caps. Should I write back like that too? Is [...]

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Are Students on Twitter?

This past fall, I was at a number of NAFSA: Association of International Educator regional conferences. I attended some sessions about social media and engaged in lots of conversations about social media and its uses and implications for international education. There were always questions about Twitter  -- the 140 character limit microblogging network -- but, [...]

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How to Optimize Your Video Uploads to Increase Sharing

I've just spent hours filled with frustration trying to find appropriate videos (YouTube, Vimeo and others) to feature in some upcoming blog postings. Sigh... Oh, it's not that they're not out there. I'm sure they are. It's just that I can't find them. And when I do find them? I can't use them. Why? Because [...]

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How not to: Market your consulting services

I recently came across the following status message (which might have been on Facebook or Twitter or some other social network -- I'm not telling!) My new venture: online courses. #WordPress for Noobs (newbies) begins Jan 10. Get it thru #YourThickSkull Are you serious?? Do you really think that calling your potential clients "noobs" or [...]

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10 International Education Tweeps to Follow on Twitter

As part of the work I am doing for some of my clients, I daily monitor literally hundreds of Twitter accounts that deal with international education. I have the opportunity to see how many organizations are using Twitter. Most, unfortunately, are not using it to their best advantage. But there are some that are. These [...]

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Do you know what others are saying about you?

I wonder how many of you really know what others are saying about you in public. I monitor a lot of social media streams -- and I can tell you that your students and participants (past, present and future) are talking about your office, your program, YOU. I see it every day. I've seen students complain online [...]

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7 billion reasons to read National Geographic this year

National Geographic has released a video that emphasizes that each of us will be one of seven (7) billion people on earth by the end of 2011. The magazine is promoting a year-long series of articles throughout 2011. I've been a fan of National Geographic since I was a child. It was a major influence [...]

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Is Facebook (and other social media) American cultural imperialism?

SMC Lounge - 2011 trends IV Uploaded by techtoctv. - Videos of the latest science discoveries and tech. Check out this video of a discussion of social media trends for 2011 for  Social Media Club France Lounge which took place near LeWeb a few weeks ago in France. Jeremiah Owyang (Altimeter), Paul Papadimitriou (Twitter), and Fabrice [...]

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The Christmas Story Told Through Social Media

A festive video called "The Digital Story of the Nativity" tells the tale of the first Christmas as it might be told today--through the eyes of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare, as well as through popular websites like Google, Wikipedia and Amazon. It has become a viral sensation on the Internet this [...]

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Viral Video: Hallelujah Chorus from Alaskan Inuits

Anyone who really knows me knows how much I enjoy choral music. Here's a version of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus from a village of Alaskan Inuits. It's gone viral. No surprise.

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Tech Tip: Google RSS Feeds

I like the Google Chrome browser. Really, I do. It's quick, easy to use for searches. I use Chrome more than any other browser. (And I regularly use four different ones almost every day.) But I was surprised... no, shocked, to discover that it has no built-in RSS feed reader! So here's a tip to [...]

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ConnectStateGov retweets

I was happy to see that one of the US State Department twitterstreams, @ConnectStateGov, tweeted about my post, "The Most Important Way that International Education Can Use Facebook", today. It's one of the most read posts on this blog and I'm pleased that people find it useful.

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The Santa Social Graph

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If it walks like a duck: College admissions marketing for the new generation

There's a saying in the USA: “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck...it must be a duck” and the University of Oregon is creatively using ducks and social media to recruit students -- including international students. A University of Oregon student music group, On the Rocks, has become [...]

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Facebook graph of global relationships

Using the connections between friends on Facebook, Paul Butler, an intern Facebook has created a remarkable map of the world. This one began with profile data from a scant 10 million people -- or about 2% of Facebook's users. Butler first tabulated the number of friends between each city, and what latitude and longitude each [...]

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The Christmas Story -- New Zealand Style

I'm fascinated by how different nations and cultures interpret worldwide stories. Here we have the Christmas story interpreted by the children of  Saint Paul's Church in Auckland, New Zealand. Precious.

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Presenting... An iBand

It was only a matter of time... it's an iBand. And it's a viral sensation. The geeks at North Point church play Christmas carols on their iPads, iTouches and iPhones. Carol of the Bells Rocking Around the Christmas Tree Feliz Navidad Amazing!

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