SocialFishing...

From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Watch what’s going on around Hurricane Gustav and the power of social media for connecting news sources and “real” people on the ground.
Andy Carvin creates a Ning group for alerts and information. It includes the latest news, traffic cams, a twitter feed, and much more.
Here’s the associated Facebook group.
Here’s the main Twitter query feed [...]

Crap! Missed my Blog-day!

by Maddie Grant on August 31, 2008

This blog turned one year old nine days ago, on August 21. And what a year it’s been!
So once again, I just wanted to use this blog-day post to say THANK YOU to all who read this blog, everyone who has commented, who has challenged me, who has made me think things through more [...]

The MacArthur Foundation and UC Irvine, Duke, HASTAC are giving away $2million in awards for the following:
* Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards will support projects that demonstrate new modes of participatory learning, in which people take part in virtual communities, share ideas, comment on one another’s projects, and advance goals [...]

Blogger is rolling out a new Follower widget which will allow readers to follow my blog, thus building community around it. It will appear in the dashboard, and I will be able to browse my followers, check out what blogs they write, and see who else they follow. I can’t tell you how many times [...]

LinkedIn and associations

by Maddie Grant on August 29, 2008

Check out the sweet discussion on yapstar.org about the value of LinkedIn for associations. (You don’t need to be a member to read, only to post and join the convo.)
I got a comment recently, here on an earlier post:
“Have you heard of companies requiring employees to have LinkedIn profiles, and to use them to generate [...]