I've tried to love Twitter. Everyone's Twittering and I keep thinking I'm missing out on something.  Twitter seems like a perfect medium for him. Twitter doesn't feel like gentle background noise to me. Twitter seems to provoke in me the social insecurities I'd hoped to leave behind in high school. really have. MORE >>

Lilia Efimova ( 2004 ) was one of my earlier inspirations, “To a great extend PKM [personal knowledge management] is about shifting responsibility for learning and knowledge sharing from a company to individuals and this is the greatest challenge for both sides.&# personal learning environment. personal learning network. MORE >>

since 2007, and this semester is the first time that I’ve actually had a full week on Twitter (well, microblogging and lifestreaming to be specific). Before, I treated it sort of as an afterthought, including some information on Twitter during the two weeks that I covered blogging. I’ve been teaching a class on Web 2.0 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 >>

Last week, I asked my readers to share their best advice for using a blog for personal branding and job searching. So below is the Bamboo Project Readers' Guide to Blogging for Personal Branding. Sacha Chua , another poster child for how blogging can support personal branding, offers additional advice in her presentation, Networking 2.0: MORE >>