Social Media And University: How New Technologies Are Used In Academia – Robin Good’s Latest News Annotated
- Quote: The results are conclusive. Social media has arrived in college admissions. The ivory tower is innovating even faster than the elite Inc. 500. And the game has changed forever.
Note: Interesting look at how colleges are beginning to use social media in admissions, 20% of whom now graze social networking sites to find out information about potential candidates.
– post by willrich
With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking – New York Times Annotated
- Quote: With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies
recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography,
drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound
and videos. In the process, they are reshaping the world of
mapmaking and collectively creating a new kind of atlas that is likely
to be both richer and messier than any other.Note: Doesn’t that last part sum just about all of this up? Richer and messier…that’s the Read/Write Web.
– post by willrich
With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos.
In the process, they are reshaping the world of mapmaking and collectively creating a new kind of atlas that is likely to be both richer and messier than any other.
Glad to see you leveraging Diigo into your web with their “daily blog post” tool. I am using it along with the way cool WP-o-matic to automatically include blog posts from my university blogs.
Diigo daily blog post tool– http://www.diigo.com/
WP-O-matic– http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-the-wordpress-rss-agreggator/
Will, both of these are great articles. Thanks for sharing!
These articles were extremely helpfull