Posts under ‘social media’

Many thanks to Kaitlin Foley, whosenew blog has a great overview of how to use social media to participate in the inauguration of Barack Obama on Jan. 20, whether you have a ticket or not. I, for one, am using/fllowing the #inaug09 tag on Twitter.
Twitter:
NPR and CBS News are using two major twitter tags to [...]

via Brazen Careerist
SXSW Interactive: March 13-17, 2009 | SXSW.com:
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a [...]

YouTube - Vernacular Video by hrheingold:

Inexpensive digital cameras, laptop editing, and network distribution have detonated an explosion of vernacular video, from YouTube to Open Courseware. This is a broad look at the ways video vernaculars are changing pop culture — and a hint of changes to come in education. Six and a half minutes.

YouTube - Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect 111508: President-elect Obama talks about the economy in this week’s Democratic address. For more information, visit http://www.change.gov
According to NYT The Caucus:
From now on it will be the weekly “Democratic Radio Address” in name only.
President-elect Barack Obama, capitalizing on his successful use of multimedia technologies during the [...]

Head East, Young Techie - The Caucus Blog - NYT 111208:
Tech geeks are tickled that come January, one of their kind will be in the White House. With the election of Barack Obama, a text-messaging Facebook user who has promised to hire the nation’s first chief technology officer, Silicon Valley has a newfound interest in [...]