This experiment will help me relearn life as it was before email, Facebook and Google searching became my norms.  My For the next three weeks, I will remove the computer from my life.  This My hope is to read books (off-line) and pay attention to all that is around me outside of my global connections facilitated through online mechanisms.  It It is a temporary escape into a non-tech reality

Facebook, twitter, and blogging are all tools to communicate your message and are equally important in today’s learning landscape as traditional tools such as text books, field trips and speakers. If Facebook was a country – it would be the 4th largest according to its population. I was recently asked how social media is relevant to environmental educators.    For a quick version of why its important, click the you tube video. Here  is  my reply to the question:

Once back to my ‘real’ world, I found out from a friend on Facebook how to fold bottom sheets (with the help of a You Tube video).  This After spending a month off-line, I was convinced it is essential for one’s health.  The The neck and shoulder aches were gone, I read more in the papers and had conversations over breakfasts rather than over emails.  In

Anyone who uses Facebook understands these concepts.   It’s interesting to think about how knowledge networks develop.   My understanding is that people or organizations with a common interest come together over a shared purpose.   If the sole purpose of the network is to share knowledge, there needs to be a demand and supply of knowledge.    Participants need to be interested in each other’s experiences and lessons to offer.    To be really valuable, the knowledge needs to be real, personable and something others can identify with.  Anyone I am helping to establish a regional

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Callan Green has just published a great post on Mashable about brands who are really getting it right in Facebook Fan Pages. To make the most of Facebook Fan pages (or Bebo, any other social network), you need to actively engage with your fans. Phillips, herself a mother of ‘millennials’ – roughly defined as those who were pre-teen at the turn of the century - quotes her own research into how young adults view brands who attempt to ‘befriend’ them Sure, she says, “anyone can build a fan page in under 10 minutes, and some big brands may even attract fans without any real effort.

Back in June 2007 I wrote a popular tutorial on writing Facebook platform applications with Ruby On Rails . Time has moved on since and Facebook has launched Facebook Connect which allows you to integrate Facebook into your own sites allowing authentication, registration, friend connecting, and Facebook feed posting in the context of your application. Mashable has a great post on 10 great implementations of Facebook Connect including Joost At Made By Many we are fans of the possibilites of Facebook Connect for lowering barriers of registration, extracting social graph and injecting your social media functions into the daily online life of users.

However, in this article I discuss the use of Facebook for building your list. On Facebook , friends, page fans and followers of various applications, such as NetworkedBlogs , all belong to your list, and all receive communications from you in one form or another. If Facebook would enable you to have an unlimited number of friends, you could probably get along without fans and followers. I have already written List Building Using Ning Social Networks and List Building Using Twitter . I

Here’s speculation by The Business Insider on Facebook’s revenue streams: Earlier this week (July 2nd 2009) we spoke to several sources who each have some insight into Facebook’s financials (none of them know precisely). 150 million from Facebook’s ad deal with Microsoft $75 Social media monetization is a funny thing – most people don’t understand that where there are people, there is money. It is highly improbable that the day will come when millions of people together will not mean money.