Real-time search goes big-time: Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook
The world’s leading Web search engines announced plans to search the “real-time Web.” This includes new versions of search tools. Google will include Twitter updates as part of its search operations....
View ArticleEducators driving Twitter use among the young: Associated Press
Some teenagers are exposed to Twitter use by their teachers, according to an Associated Press report. Teachers and employers, already part of the older demographic more likely to be using that...
View ArticleEducation via Twitter: a financial example
A new project uses Twitter to aggregate and share financial information. The Mint has worked with Twitter to produce a site presenting “live” social media content about economics. The idea is to...
View ArticleDigital Humanities Now launches
The Digital Humanities Now project launched this month, and is a significant initiative for anyone interested in digital scholarship and communication, social media, crowdsourcing, open content,...
View ArticleTwittering historical events
How can we teach with Twitter? TwHistory offers one model, where groups tweeted historical events. For example, volunteers contributed historical microcontent through the personae of historical actors...
View ArticleTwitter in the liberal arts: a Furman example
How can a liberal arts campus class use Twitter? One Furman University class did, and reflections on the experiment are blogged here by the instructor. Advantages, disadvantages, best practices, and...
View ArticleFacebook friending on the decline?
The importance of friending someone on Facebook has begun to decline, argues a Wall Street Journal article. Facebook’s recent moves to open up user content to the world mean more users are posting not...
View ArticleTwitter hacked by group claiming to be Iranian
Twitter was hacked last night. The site’s main page replaced by this, a screen claiming the intrusion as a victory for the “Iranian Cyber Army”: Official Twitter blog post here. This has several...
View ArticleMedical professionals using Twitter
How can the life sciences use social media? This article explores how oncologists developed Twitter practices. They include: Disseminating, correcting, expanding, gathering information Conference...
View ArticleUsing Twitter for instructional communities: one teacher reflects
How can instructors use Twitter? One teacher, and author of a book on learning communities, offers this observation: faculty can quickly form peer learning networks. I could look inside the minds of...
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