Is Twitter the next BIG thing?

Is it the next big thing?

Yesterday a friend introduced me to twitter , and while I thoroughly enjoyed myself, It was nice to get out the randomness of life, and while no one is following me yet, I wondered just how important Twitter  is going to become. I have my twitter account linked with BlogSavvy and haven’t decided if i want it to appear on the blog yet.  I would also like to see just how many followers I can get in the next 3 days.  Out of all the followers I will randomly pick one and send…

  • Posted on: September 30th, 2008
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  • Category: Featured, Just Blogging

BlogWorldExpo 2008

What a Blast!

This last weekend I attended the BlogWorldExpo2008 in Las Vegas, and what a great trip.  There was the infamous drive from Salt Lake City, UT to Las Vegas, NV which with a 4year old, a 2 year old, and a 3 month old, and a stinky dog was enough to make someone crazy.  We did make it though, it took us 6 hours to drive down and only 3 stops.  Luckily no speeding tickets, we drove fast but didn’t get caught. Whaoo!

The Opening Morning

Being the fact that I had never been to a Conference as…

  • Posted on: September 24th, 2008
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  • Category: Just Blogging

The 10 Best Olympic Gold Blog Titles for Free

“Killer Tiles”?

While you might think you have a”Killer Title” you may in essence have nothing more than the leftovers, so how do you stand out from the crowd?  Simple you don’t follow the crowd, if they are writing about “Goldfish” for example, you should write about “Oscar fish eat Goldfish”. You can stay relevant to the “hot” topic without sounding like you simply read someone’s work and then paraphrased it.  Be original, that is the essence of a “Killer Title”.  Here are 10 other ideas to help you create an Olympic Gold Blog Title. (if there ever is such…

  • Posted on: August 26th, 2008
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  • Category: Community, Just Blogging

Happy Birthday UBD!

I have to give a huge shout out to Unique Blog Designs (who redesigned this blog) is holding a 1 year anniversary contest. It’s easy to win some stuff….

-Posting a comment on this thread and you get 1 point.

-Blogging about the contest and you get 5 points.

If you are the lucky winner you could win

an 8GB iPod  touch and the new UBD Citrus theme.

Good Luck to all who enter, if nothing more Get your blog designed by UBD!

  • Posted on: August 23rd, 2008
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  • Category: Blogging Contests

How you SHOULD use blogs in education

Following on from how NOT to use blogs in education this post attempts to summarise this paper and add a few extra angles onto how you can use blogs effectively in education and invites your additional hints, tips, criticisms & wotnot.

You must incorporate blogs as key, task driven, elements of your course
– This may sound obvious but simply providing blogs to learners and saying ‘Hey, use them however you want’ is an absolute guarantee of failure as all but 1 or 2 people will take you up on it. Significantly here that I’m not saying assessment… you…

  • Posted on: July 29th, 2005
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  • Category: Education, Featured, Just Blogging