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Tag Archives: Washington Post
Should states ban student-teacher interactions on Facebook?
Yesterday’s Washington Post had an editorial about a misguided trend among state legislatures to ban communication between students and teachers through sites like Facebook and Twitter: However, in some places, new laws and proposed measures are impeding teacher communication with students outside of school-sanctioned e-mail systems. The most recent practitioner of educational technophobia is Missouri, which [...]
On World Peace, Labor Day and Blocking Facebook
I’m as big an advocate of social media as you’re likely to meet. Still, I think Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker went a bit overboard in yesterday’s offering, Facebook and social media offer the potential of peace: Not to be a Pollyanna, but it is striking to realize that peace becomes plausible when barriers to [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Social Media Also tagged China, Facebook, Iran, Kathleen Parker, Lee Aase, Social Media, Syria, Twitter, World Peace 3 Comments
Social Media Conferences, Panels and Tweetups
Over the next few weeks I’m going to be traveling for several conferences and presentations relating to social media. Some of these are open for additional registrations; if you can attend, I’d love to meet you. Otherwise, if you see I’m going to be in your area and would like to Tweetup, you know how [...]
Posted in Conferences Also tagged Blog Council, Blogwell, Chicago, FDA, National Press Club, NCI, New Yor, NewsHour, Philadelphia, Ragan, Social Media, Tweetup, Twitter Leave a comment
The Black Magic of Compounded Newspaper Losses
It hasn’t been a good decade for newspapers, but the last month has been especially bad. See Howard Kurtz’s late-May column about the more than 100 Washington Post journalists taking buyouts. Sam Zell is cutting 500 pages of news per week from his 12 Tribune Company papers, moving to a 50/50 split of advertising and [...]
Posted in News Media Also tagged advertising, Circulation, Clay Shirky, New York Times, Newspapers, Revenue, Star Tribune Leave a comment
Teachers Tweeting for Support and Inspiration