Monica D.T. Rysavy

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Archive: ‘Social Networking’



Social Networking: Keeping up with everyone in one place

Monday, November 30th, 2009

So I have a Facebook page.

And a Twitter page.

I’m on LinkedIn too – even though I don’t really know what to do with it.

I don’t do MySpace.

It’s a pain to check 3 different web pages to keep up with my friends, news, etc… Peter introduced me to

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This is too cool.

You can track all of your social networking accounts in one place (they currently support Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn). You can download software to use on your computer or use their web application (that’s what I’m doing), and/or download the mobile application for your phone.

The only current drawback I’ve found (at least with the web version, I haven’t tried the download software yet), is that it doesn’t support Twitter lists. It does have a feature called “groups” which is like having a list (a group of people you follow), but you have to add them one by one. I don’t follow that many people yet so it’s been easy for me to just create new groups.

Social Networking for Teachers is coming soon!

Monday, August 17th, 2009

I read about a new site today, BetterLesson, which bills itself as place that is  “committed to saving educators from ‘reinventing the wheel,’ giving them more time to focus on creating innovative content, delivering innovative content, grading, tutoring, analyzing data, communicating with parents, finishing paperwork, and sleeping.” It was started by a group of teachers from Atlanta and Boston public schools in the spring of 2008 to help educators organize and share their curricula.

Right now it looks like they are accepting beta tester applications. You can sign up by going here.

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