50 (mostly) free social media tools you can’t live without in 2012

Via Scoop.it – Social Media: Changing Our World of Education A couple of years ago, Jay Baer wrote a great blog post called ‘The 39 social media tools I’ll use today‘ which was an all-in-one toolkit for social media…” Credit: Adam Vincenzini revisits this article, with great new insights, here: Via thenextweb.com     Follow me on [...]

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50 Best Social Media Blog Posts 1st Half of 2011

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & more. See if you agree with the writer of this blog post! There are so many great blog posts. As we all know, the Internet is growing exponentially. The Information Highway is the original term. I used to call it a tsunami of  information.Now I deem it to be: a tsunami [...]

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6 Steps To Staying Safe On Social Networks

    Safety is an important issue for all of us! This critical information is especially crucial for our vulnerable (& often naive)children and young adults.     Take some time to read this carefully, and share it with all those people who are especially important to you(family/friends/co-workers). You know the old saying: “An ounce of prevention [...]

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Top 50 Social Media Blogs In 2010

Count them- 50! Set aside an evening for this. http://bit.ly/dAdHt7+ Credit: Evan Carmichael, writing @ The Entrepreneur Blog Follow me on Twitter for more info-to-go, @Coolwired. Thnx for visiting!

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Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools For Teachers

VuVox ,  Prezi , Voicethread, Slide.com, WordPress, Ning …                 J. Steltz, an 18 year veteran teacher, shares his classroom leap into the use of educational technology. He discusses his letting go of some control, in order to allow his students to explore these new media. He even includes [...]

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Night Vision-next mobile must have?

Back to the future? Yes!! There’s an app for that!  Famous words… An app for night vision? An app for vertigo? iPads embedded in the kitchen? Yes! Bring it on! I can’t wait to see what the future brings. See for yourself! http://bit.ly/b4g63P Credit: Aaron Hoover-Florida, writing @ Futurity. @Coolwired or sign up for my e-mail [...]

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iPad Embedded Into Kitchen

Here comes the future! Photo Credit: LifeHacker Will the iPad be on your wall or on your fridge door? Is it already installed in your car? In your gym? On your workbench? On your watch? There are so many possibilities. Guy Kawasaki, writing @ AllTop ,brings us this You Tube Video. It  shows you more… >>>  http://bit.ly/b8Dqxh @Coolwired. Thnx!

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Best Green Blogs Directory

In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, here are some great Eco-themed blogs from around the globe. There are so many great green blogs listed here! We all want to save our planet! Right? Well look no further. These Top 10 are worth checking! So are the others http://www.bestgreenblogs.com/ Follow me on Twitter [...]

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Fight Info Overload!

Following Twitter? How on earth do you follow 100+ people, without getting information overload? Here are some of my ideas: be selective about whom you follow(are their tweets useful to you?) check your own followers, now & then block nasty/obnoxiuos timewasters & spammers keep your lists to a minimum  There are more great ideas here, [...]

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5 Must-Have Programs For Netbooks

Here come the Netbooks! Check out this well-written article about important programs for Netbooks. Feel free to add others, in the comments!   http://bit.ly/bsYRS9 Thanks to James Kendrick , writing  at WebWorkerDaily, for this informative article!  Be sure to scroll down to the Comments section, for other suggestions. See if you can think of more to add. [...]

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