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Rapacious

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:49:48 PDT

Attended a professional conference lately? Had an interesting time trying to access wireless internet? I’ve ragged on this topic before, but as I prepare to attend two conferences the issue again raises its ugly head. It strikes me as rapacious in the extreme that many hotels deliberately restrict wireless access in meeting rooms so they can force the [...]

Twitter: the most effective tool yet

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:45:26 PDT

Book Review Twitterville: How businesses can thrive in the new global neighborhoods By Shel Israel Portfolio Books, 2009. 306 p. In 2006 Shel Israel and Robert Scoble co-authored the book Naked Conversations, which argued that blogs can help repair corporate image and rebuild lost trust. Now Israel argues that Twitter has become the most effective tool in the growing arsenal [...]

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Fwd: edu1world: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are... - paul baker - FriendFeed
Fwd: edu1world: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education http://ow.ly/15KuzL (via... http://ff.im/6plkY [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3228269333]
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
Fwd: edu1world: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education http://ow.ly/15KuzL (via... http://ff.im/6plkY [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3228269333]
Inside School Research: Should Sociologists Make a Leap From the Ivory Tower?
Debate among sociologists over whether they should (gasp) blog ! My goodness, THAT doesn't count toward tenure! http://bit.ly/394bI6 [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3252152224]
bit.ly, a simple url shortener
Just learned this useful tool: set up an account at http://bit.ly/ then enter in compressed URLs you've tweeted, and get click stats! [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3252651988]
Most Ky. juniors aren't ready for college, ACT says - Latest News - Kentucky.com
RT @sgermeraad: RT @gtoppo Most KY HS juniors not ready for #college, #ACT scores show http://bit.ly/wimlF #education [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3252774703]
Anyone in education or devoted to intellectual... - paul baker - FriendFeed
Anyone in education or devoted to intellectual pursuits owe it to themselves to be actively trying out the new... http://ff.im/6ygPP [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3286029664]
The current Open Access model provides for legacy... - paul baker - FriendFeed
The current Open Access model provides for legacy genres and formats of scholarly communication. That's great for... http://ff.im/6yhE8 [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3286112587]
"The exciting thing about social media and about... - paul baker - FriendFeed
"The exciting thing about social media and about the concept of open scholarship is that good academic work packaged... http://ff.im/6ypJX [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3286889991]
Fwd: RT @ValerieSimon Public Relations tweeps-... - paul baker - FriendFeed
Fwd: RT @ValerieSimon Public Relations tweeps- more info on #PRStudchat & tips to make the most of Twitter chats... http://ff.im/6yy6Q [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3287710519]
Disconnected (Education - Change.org)
RT @RTIcenter: Schools shouldn't "disconnect" from the internet and social media, but embrace it! #education http://bit.ly/Ze0k1 [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3287956987]
How Do You Handle Negative Tweets and Status Updates? « The Campus Flack
RT @skirubbi: RT @tomdurso On damage control, social media, and university communications: http://tinyurl.com/kjdhcz #highered [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3307644770]
How to Use Twitter for Information Mining
How to use Twitter for information mining (by L. Zeltser , posted in Jan.) http://bit.ly/3JgBFb [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3310356560]
Use Twitter as your RSS reader
How to use Twitter as an RSS reader (by Ryan Jerz, posted in Jan.) http://bit.ly/j9vQE [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3310450826]
Engineering Buildings - a set on Flickr
Good use of Flickr to portray campus bldgs. & depts. RT @buckybadger: Pictures from the Engineering Buildings! http://ow.ly/k4Jt #highered [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/3310479998]
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People first, business later

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:25:46 PDT

Book Review Trust Agents. Using the Web to build influence, improve reputation, and earn trust. By Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009. 271 p. Because I read Trust Agents from the perspective of a public relations practitioner I especially appreciate its challenge to reconsider the meaning of the term ‘public relations.’ Chris Brogan and [...]

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Even UW Faculty and Staff Can (and Should) Twitter

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:26:36 PDT

August 25 — 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. September 9 — 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Pyle Center, Room 313 702 Langdon Street Learn all about the world of Twitter at these one-hour sessions in the Pyle Center (so everyone has room to bring laptops). WAA Web Director James Ellis will lead you through the world [...]

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Make Bank … by Giving It Away

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:48:48 PDT

Book Review Free: The Future of a Radical Price. By Chris Anderson Hyperion books, 2009. 274 pages. NPR reported this morning that Microsoft will soon offer free web based versions of some of its software programs, including word processing and spreadsheets. Why would Microsoft give anything away free? After all, about 80 percent of business uses Microsoft Office. Their decision has [...]

Teaching Digital Citizenship in Schools

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:58:44 PDT

Book Review Digital Citizenship in Schools Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey International Society for Technology in Education/ISTE, 2007. 149 p. Technology offers powerful tools that allow students to communicate and, ultimately, create society. Students need to understand that digital technology makes them citizens of the world. Teachers therefore have to engage digital technology in the same way their students [...]

Who Produces the Educational Research Mentioned in the News Media?

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:00:52 PDT

In an analysis of education articles published in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Education Week, Holly Yettick of the University of Colorado at Boulder finds that any given think tank report was substantially more likely to be cited than any given study studies produced by a university. Her study of 864 articles shows that 1. Education [...]

Prof. says: Reward media-friendly faculty

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:41:09 PDT

“You can teach more people in 10 minutes on television or radio than you will be able to speak to in an entire year in the classroom,” says Michael C. Munger, political science, Duke University, in The Chronicle, 22 June. “In the triad of research, teaching, and service,” he writes, “the task of dealing with the [...]

Leveraging social media in politics

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:59:27 PDT

Book Review Yes We Did An inside look at how social media built the Obama brand By Rahaf Harfoush New Riders/Voices that Matter. 2009. 199 p. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House provided a live stream on Tuesday of President Barack Obama’s press conference on Facebook allowing users to give instant feedback on his remarks about Iran, health care other [...]

Presentation design for the rest of us

pbaker@wisc.edu (Paul Baker) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:14:05 PDT

Slide:ology: The art and science of creating great presentations. By Nancy Duarte O’Reilly, 2008. 274 p. A great slide can facilitate epiphanies. When a presentation is developed and delivered well, it is one of our most powerful communication tools. But alas. Most of us are not trained graphic artists. We don’t really know how to produce or deliver effective [...]