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. broke the class up into two large groups. MORE >>

One of the things I learned from tracking my time more closely is that I spend way too much time on information-related tasks (email, Twitter , blog posts, etc.) Let’s start with Twitter. get so much value out of Twitter: links to news and other information, updates on friends, notification of events and much more. MORE >>

Many of the participants are Twitter users who are becoming used to chatting via twitter. have a chat stream happening and there's one going on via twitter. Twitter Chat Annoying? Actually, before I go any farther, I've got to ask: Doesn't anyone else find the use of Twitter as a true Chat Channel a bit annoying? MORE >>

There are many ways to use Twitter , and at least as many ways to (try to) explain Twitter to people who haven’t yet given it a try. This is what I’ve come up with for them: Twitter is a way to meet people. Chances are you went with a friend, or a group of friends, and didn’t know everyone there. MORE >>

In earlier posts, I provided some tips for improving your Twitter efficiency and mining Twitter for information. While both of these provide useful ways to utilize Twitter, you also need to be prepared to respond to other people quickly. Here are my top three real-time monitoring tools for Twitter. Written by Dawn Foster. MORE >>