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| | CONNECTING 2 THE WORLD APRIL 26, 2012 Teaching about mob mentality Today I taught my group communication class about mob mentality. This is the first semester I have included this in my course, but with the recent publicity about Bullying, I felt it was necessary for my students to understand the role of group communication in the bullying debate. assigned the readings: Stott, C, Hutchinson, P., & Drury, J. 2001). | INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE APRIL 26, 2012 Reflections on year one at PSU Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State. I’d wanted to write a post yesterday reflecting on it, but I was driving three hours (to Bend, OR) to give a four-hour preconference. Today I’m still in Bend for the Oregon Library Association Conference and I’m really excited to meet more of my Oregon colleagues. | TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS APRIL 26, 2012 Why Andrew Keen is fundamentally wrong about crowds Internet dystopian Andrew Keen , author most recently of Digital Vertigo, has just spoken at TheNextWeb Summit and Conference. . He and his arguments are intensely annoying because his case is blindly and obtusely one-sided, though it is useful to have his voice to provide a counterpoint to digital utopianism. . Crowdsourcing Social trends | | | | | | | |
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CLARK QUINN | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Style-ish
I’m a real fan of styles, ala Microsoft Word. If you don’t get this concept, I wish you would. Let me explain. The concept is fairly simple. Then you define what a heading one looks like: bold, font size 14, with space before of 6 pts, and space after of 6 pts, etc. Why use styles? Several reasons. Please, please, use styles. MORE >> -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012  Presentations from LILAC #lilac12
The powerpoints from the 2012 LILAC (information literacy) conference are online at [link] - too many to take in easily, lots of good stuff! resources lilac12 UK Information Literacy MORE >> -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Social Media Marketing May Need to Adjust Measurement
Adobe has released second Adobe® D i g i t a l I n dex report, which provides marketing, e-commerce and retail executives with digital marketing data. The research looked at how marketers measure the impact of website traffic from major social media sites. The most common measure of impact is the last-click attribution. MORE >> -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012  Wiggio snags one million users, pilots new premium service
As far as collaboration tools go, Wiggio isn’t flashy. The suite of dead simple collaboration tools ranging from chat and file sharing to polling and document creation is targeted primarily at college students looking for a way to organize extracurricular activities and group projects. Asana has beautiful task management. MORE >>
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