9 Blue Feather Tweeters

This post is inspired by an amazing and noble idea I ran into on Liz Strauss’s blog. She was motivated by Lonnie Hodge’s post ‘Blue Feather Tweeters’. Lonnie thought “how about a list of the top 20-30 nicest people to meet and tweet on Twitter?” So this is a #followfriday with a human twist; it’s [...]

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Classrooms embrace Animoto

I discovered Animoto about a month back and was impressed by how little video editing knowledge it requires on the part of the user and how stunning the produced videos looked. I signed up for the regular free version (which lets me create short videos like this one here) and then realized that Animoto [...]

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My Social Media System

Chris Brogan recently followed John Jantsch’s lead and defined his social media system/routine. I’m nowhere near these guys in terms of where I stand in the social media world, but I think it’s a good idea for all of us to step back and look at how we’re spending our time.

So here I [...]

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4 Educators talk about Edmodo

After my chat with Jeff O’Hara from Edmodo, and wanting to find out more about Edmodo and the way educators the world over use it in the classroom, I turned to Twitter (duh) and quickly got in touch with four teachers eager to answer my questions. Here’s what they have to say about certain things [...]

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Edmodo: More than just a ‘Twitter for Education’

I had read something about Edmodo a few months back and remember it being described as “Twitter for Education”. At that point, I was not yet active on Twitter and as such did not quite understand what Edmodo could really be about. Once I did start ‘getting’ Twitter, I was wondering how the hell [...]

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My many online personalities

My last post made me think about the way I may have a severe split personality syndrome online.
I’ll elaborate. But please bear with me and all my numbers.
The first social networking site I ever joined was Facebook. That was about 3 years ago. I am pretty selective with my friends there (I don’t think [...]

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Twitter vs. Facebook: My (Primitive) View (around midnight)

I am by no means representative of the global sample (simply because where I live right now, Twitter has not been adopted as widely as Facebook has been) but I think there is a fundamental difference between how I use Twitter vs. Facebook. First of all, Twitter (by the sheer way it operates) lets people [...]

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One College’s Exercises in Taming Social Media (2)

So, back to my college in Greece. After the group incident, it took me while to get my head wrapped around all the implications social media has on how people (and organizations and brands) communicate. In my mind, it all came down to this (and it still does): social media works because it promotes conversations. [...]

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One College’s Exercises in Taming Social Media (1)

At my last job as a Marketing Coordinator at a US school in Greece, I had all kinds of workdays. Some made me go home thinking I might have a stroke at the ripe age of 26. This was one of them.

It was November 2007. Facebook had been all the rage for a while. [...]

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My 2009 gift to myself: Elena’s Red Marker Stopping Point

I thought I had 4 days to write this – my first blog post. But knowing my track record, I better do it now. You see, I really really want to start blogging before 2009 officially hunts me down. I decided to do so because I know around this time last year I promised myself [...]

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