Kevin Blissett: Out of the Cave

Great video here highlighting lots of cool Twitter tools you can use to increase your effectiveness. (Friends in China need to use a proxy to access the video.)

As you’re no doubt  aware, all major social media and networks, with the exception of Facebook (fingers crossed), are being blocked here on the Chinese mainland. I fully understand that I am a guest in the country and, as such, accept that there may be policies with which I disagree, particularly political ones. This post [...]

Mashable reports that last month’s unique visitors numbers indicate that Facebook and Twitter continue on their torrid growth pace, while MySpace continues to lose ground. Facebook’s growth, both in terms of the number of users, as well as visitors, has to slow down one day. Well, it is slowing down now, but it’s still huge [...]

Tony Karrer investigates the Twitter phenomenon, particularly as it relates to learning and/or classroom application. I have to say, I’m finding it difficult to see how Twitter could be a major tool for learning in my classroom or personally, though it certainly can be a good tool for collaboration if used correctly. (As we cannot [...]