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Why I am ashamed of some social media leaders today

13 January 2010

All day, the world news media has been reporting on the horrendous earthquake that struck Haiti late yesterday afternoon. One of the first organizations to respond was Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean's foundation, Yéle Haiti, that sent out a tweet within about an hour of reporting the earthquake yesterday.
DONATE $5 BY TEXTING THE WORD "YELE" TO 501501
At [...]

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How to create/change/update your Facebook URL

7 January 2010

I've found it's almost impossible to find clear information on how to create/change/update an existing Facebook Profile or Page URL into a "pretty" URL.
Because Profiles and Pages are now indexed on search engines, many people would prefer to have a URL of their choosing — instead of having the default URLs that involve unwieldy strings [...]

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The most important way that Intl Ed can use Facebook

5 January 2010

I think I could also have named this posting "The single biggest mistake I see International Education making on Facebook" — but I'd prefer to keep this positive.
It's incredibly simple. International education offices and organization should beRelated Posts:How to create/change/update your Facebook URLThe real price of ignoring social mediaWhy I am ashamed of [...]

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A clever way to use Facebook tags in marketing

27 November 2009

The global retail giant, IKEA, recently debuted a guerrilla marketing campaign , designed by Forsman & Bodenfors, for the opening of a new Malmö, Sweden store that utilized Facebook's tagging feature. Here's how it worked.

They created a profile for the new store''s manager, Gordon Gustavsson (aka "IKEA Gordon").
Facebook members in the new store's geographic area [...]

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Finding a Job in International Education

12 August 2009

I recently received an e-mail from a school teacher in Florida asking me for advice on finding a job in international education. That same day I re-tweeted a link to an article about how to sell your study abroad experience in a job interview by Dan Klamm and received another request for advice on how [...]

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How to lose your job on Facebook

10 August 2009

WARNING: Some might find the language used in the graphic offensive. It is, however, an actual Facebook message.

Jack Schofield,  the computer editor of The Guardian (a UK newspaper, online and off), sent out a Twitter message linking to the graphic file below.
It's a Facebook status message posted by a young woman — and her supervisor's [...]

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How to change your Facebook language setting

6 August 2009

Image via CrunchBase

Have you ever thought about letting a social networking tool help you increase your secondary language skills, especially when it comes to social media?
For example, what is "status" in Swahili or "message" in Chinese?
Facebook provides a great opportunity to do this whenever you want.
Here's how:

Simply go to the bottom of your Facebook Home [...]

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FoF: How does the news shape the way we see the world?

1 August 2008

Today's Favorites on Friday comes courtesy of the power and result of social networking and social media.
This morning, I checked my Facebook account. I noticed that a Facebook friend, Achim J. Mueller from Germany, had posted a link to World Mapper, a collection of world maps where territories are re-sized on each map according to [...]

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An international educator asks me about social media and social networking

31 July 2008

A colleague sent me an article from the June 29, 2008 edition of The New York Times by Luis Suarez called "I Freed Myself From E-Mail?s Grip".?
Suarez is a "social computing evangelist? for?I.B.M.?and the basic premise of his article was that effective use of social media and social networking tools and social networking sites has [...]

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