asked Howard Rheingold to share a little bit about the Social Media Classroom (SMC) he developed as part of a MacArthur Foundation Award (A HASTAC award specifically). There is also a rich library of new media literacy resources and a community of practitioners.  What needs is it trying to meet? Photo credit : vagawi. MORE >>

When you use social media, it may seem very chaotic and dispersed. How do all these different media link together and complement each other? And that you post the same information on various media? person may read all your tweets, another person may add your website to their RSS reader. Try to find out what works. MORE >>

In the second of this three-part series on Listening in Social Media, here is some of the best advice I found on how to listen: setting up your listening, analysing the conversation types, and what do with what you’ve heard. Tags: listening in social media Social Media How should you listen? Do check it out. MORE >>

This is a hands-on computer based social media course that takes you step by step through how to set up, monitor and measure a social media marketing campaign. We use case studies and work through a real world social media marketing campaigns by both teamwork and individual use of internet enabled PCs. MORE >>

Over the past half year I facilitated a social media capacity building trajectory for a group of 14 development organisations (and 2 networks) in countries like Vietnam, Mali, Bolivia etc., We started with an intake, trying to figure out where social media could make a contribution to the organisation or to a network. MORE >>