Haiti: Remembering The Earthquake 2 Years Later

Images of devastation in Haiti dominated news media, in 2010! Check out my previous blog posts here:       Haiti- a race against time ! This amazing report comes to us from the Boston Globe. We can only guess and imagine the horror felt by Haitians, during and after the devastating earthquake, there. They say that a [...]

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24 Impressive Blog Plugins

Audio player, Viper Video, Calendar, WP Mobile, Tools, Widgets…   There are so many great  tips and tricks for bloggers here! Some are free (we all like free, right?), and some are not. # 20 is very important. This author includes her readers’ comments for you, as well. You may need a good chunk of [...]

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Facebook Insights Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Facebook: attrition; demographics; page views & more! Check out this great guide! http://mashable.com/2010/09/03/facebook-insights-guide/ Credit: Ekaterina  Walter, writing @ Mashable @Coolwired. Thnx for visting!

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5 Strategies To Use Against Cyberbullying

 Cyberbullying does exist . Beware! How do you prepare children and teens for the ubiquitous cyber world, better known as cyberspace? You want them to be safe, while surfing the net. You want them to avoid the pitfalls and dangers which quietly lurk there.         You need to teach them now!        Here is a timely [...]

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2010 State of the Blogosphere

Social Media is exploding exponentially!      It is changing our lives dramatically, in business and in our personal lives. People are social animals. They like to broadcast their lives for the world to see, hence the rise of the Blogosphere.       Children may have  digital personas, even before they are born. Case in point: Mothers might post ultrasound [...]

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Top 2010 User Friendly Interfaces

Quora, Hipmunk, SeeismicDesktop2,Flipboard…   Quora is pretty easy to use! I have signed up for that one.  I like the use of higher questioning  and thinking skills, by ordinary (& some not so ordinary) people.  :-)  It makes me feel that there are still some amazing  thinkers out there; like the TED series.      It’s not true, that [...]

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8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education

 Social Media, Global Learning, Probes, Multimedia, Virtual Manipulatives are all here!     Collaboration is all the rage these days. Students love to collaborate using the latest technological advances, in applications like Google Docs, and Wikis. Groups are set up, which have unique cloudspace data storage, and communication capabilities.      Security is obviously a concern here.      [...]

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7 WordPress Plugins Worth Knowing

Sharebar, Google XML, Aweber , Most Popular Posts & more!         Neil Patel  (Tech Crunch advisor) writes this very informative article about some great WordPress  plugins worth knowing.  He doesn’t claim to know all the 1,000′s of WordPress plugins, but he does recommend these 7. All of them are designed to increase traffic to your blog.  Check [...]

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5 Social Media Tracking Tips

Addictomatic, Hootsuite, Social Mention, Technorati… Collect & track some great social media , using these tips! Nolan Hoshino, writing @ Gist, provides this interesting article, for you, my loyal followers. There is always so much to learn, & so little time. Have fun! http://bit.ly/gqYzh6

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11 Twitter & SM Tools To Try In 2011

Twoolr, MentionMap, TouchGraph (forFB), … Adam Vincenzini has,as usual, has compiled a great collection of tools for you to try. Be sure to try #’s 10 and 11! Really cool stuff! Here comes the future! Have a great weekend. Soon it will be Christmas. I can’t believe it is nearly 2011 ! http://bit.ly/cXOMoG    Credit: [...]

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