Clicking like on someone’s status update, a blog article, or in this case, a Facebook campaign page seems innocuous enough right? So innocuous in fact, it wasn’t considered “sufficient speech to garner First Amendment protection” in the recent Bland v. Roberts trial. The problem I have with this concept is the inherent ambiguity of clicking …Read more at the full article: What’s not to “like” about free speech?
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Using Digital Tools and Services to Target Your Audience
The sharing of information, research and content are crucial for all educators. With such vast choices of online technology tools, how do teachers and researchers decide which tools are the most effective for sharing information? While traditional methods such as publishing a paper or attending a conference are great, they’re time-consuming and do not allow …Read more at the full article: Using Digital Tools and Services to Target Your Audience
Microsoft Productivity Tools: Going Beyond Documents and Spreadsheets (08/10/2011)
This session, presented by Rich Seymore and Nancy Ramsey of Microsoft, explored using productivity tools to make information and data more useable, flexible, available, and valuable. Rich demonstrated how we can be more agile and efficient while collaborating with students, faculty, parents, and friends. He discussed taking advantage of the full potential of …Read more at the full article: Microsoft Productivity Tools: Going Beyond Documents and Spreadsheets (08/10/2011)
The Potential of Google+
Why should we care about Google+, the new social networking service from Google, when Facebook is working out just fine for most of us? Remember Orkut, Google Buzz, and the Wave project? While we know that Google does not have a great track record in terms of exciting social media projects, Google+ is different, worth …Read more at the full article: The Potential of Google+


Being a brand/Being oneself
Abby Boyle is a sophomore at the College of William and Mary.
Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has become omnipresent in American culture, especially, I have discovered, in college. Along with Twitter, Facebook definitely has its benefits: we can easily connect with friends around the world in a matter of clicks through status updates and …Read more at the full article: Being a brand/Being oneself