Don’t just "hang on for the ride"
A quick Google news search tells me there were 114,000 H1N1 flu stories in the span of 24 hours in mid-November at the height of the H1N1 epidemic. While coverage of H1N1 has dropped significantly...
View ArticleMake Facebook, not war...
Make Facebook, Not War… The other night I attended the middle school PTA meeting. The new “technology library aide” was speaking (I didn’t know we had a technology library aide!). She wanted to...
View ArticleThe Future of News?
If you watch virtually any news show, you've seen that reporters are constantly trying to stay on the cutting edge of the latest social media trends. Reporters often check in on Twitter to see what...
View ArticleWhy Tweet? Because Blattman Says So
Chris Blattman, whose blog is a favorite of several of my colleagues, has a post up today on why he tweets (aptly named, “Why I Tweet”). A year ago I considered Twitter silly. Why would I want to know...
View ArticleMaking (Seismic) Waves with Social Media
Remember what a powerful medium social media is for promoting your work far and wide… and sometimes fast. During the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked the East Coast on August 23rd, news of the...
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Live from SXSW Interactive 2012
Greetings from rainy South by South Wet! Little did Alex and I know that the most important thing to bring to SXSW Interactive in Austin would be an umbrella and extra socks. Now that we’re inside and...
View ArticleTweet or Go Extinct
In an opinion piece in The Scientist, author Sara Yeo reports on the results of a survey of leading scientists at U.S. universities about their interactions with traditional media as well as social...
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