Tag archives for education

Happy 3rd birthday to my blog!

Wow – I’ve had this blog for three years! Unbelievable! I started the blog when I was a grad student at FSU. Originally it focused on the intersection of social media, corporate education (what I did for a job back then) and my graduate studies. Since then, I transitioned into “doing” social media full time.  [...]

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Can an educator be happy as a marketer?

My new position at Dell Storage is technically a marketing position. People have asked me – you just got your master’s degree in education – how can you do marketing (this is usually after jokes about a techie crossing over to the dark side…). I have always thought there was lots of education skill needed [...]

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What does it take to be innovative?

Today was EMC’s annual Innovation Conference, and I was lucky enough to be able to attend in person again. I wanted to blog this before the conference – and I wish I would have because I was very surprised that what I wanted to blog about was discussed by several of the speakers. Here is [...]

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Are the new ways of creating content creating a new sense of self

This video is great. It talks about how putting things out on the Internet causes context collapse – we know ANYONE can see it, and we may even have to see it. So one way we know ourselves is by our relationship to others. Now that there are new ways to connect with others, we [...]

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Blogging as Reflective Practice

I’ve been mulling this post over for a few days now. But after reading some of Harold Jarche’s posts, I have decided now is not the time to be scared to speak up. I know everyone does not understand the big deal about blogging. I’ve even heard it said that if people have time to [...]

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