Weekly Edutweets for 2008-11-14

Posted by jtcobb
Donald Tapscott Made Me Yell at My Radio. http://is.gd/70Mg I share the frustration in this gloss and the original post. # Holidays, I believe, are important learning events. Dave Sabol on Veteran’s Day: http://is.gd/70Ms # I think the whole “media literacy” movement is very important: http://is.gd/70MY See also http://newmedialiteracies.org/ # New M2L post: ...

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Virtual Vacation

Posted by Ann
Ready for an escape but worried about the time and money? Check out NPR Music's Discover Songs page for a Virtual Vacation, a musical swing through unusual destinations. Or for a shorter burst of adventure, subscribe to Song of the...

Read & discuss at Ann's blog.

Students learn by doing (in this case, a webinar)

Posted by Sue Pelletier
I love this project: A group of three students from The George Washington University’s online Accelerated Master of Tourism Administration program are learning about putting on a webinar by–you guessed it–putting on a webinar. The students–Arleen M. Rivera, Kristen Butler, and Charlene Selbee–are working with the Professional Convention Management ...

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The Friday Top 5

Top 5 things that I'm looking forward to about Web Usability for Associations: Designing for Your Members this afternoon:Introducing Beaconfire in an official way to the association community.Sharing some good content with association professionals.A chance to see some old association friends ...

Read & discuss at Elizabeth Weaver Engel, CAE's blog.

Now is the best time to acquire new members

If you don’t take my word on it, listen to Tony Rossell: First of all, any change prompts people to look at new opportunities and solutions. We are clearly in the midst of great change as a society. Secondly, during times of economic uncertainly, people look for an anchor. Professionally associations can ...

Read & discuss at david@highcontext.com (C. David Gammel)'s blog.

Cool tool: Username Check

Posted by Maddie Grant
Need a reason to set up some "placeholder" accounts on public social networks so no-one else takes them? Check this out. Plug in your organization's name or your own name and see where it's already taken in a whole ton of social spaces. And ...

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Links for 2008-11-13 [del.icio.us]

Posted by Hilary

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Stream of Consciousness (2008-11-13)

Posted by desabol
Blog Post: Stream of Consciousness (2008-11-12) http://s3nt.com/aehc # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Image making

Posted by AEM
Ann Oliveri listed award-winning taglines from a recent Nonprofit Quarterly survey. Kivi Miller has also posted some and I found a few I liked. It's nice to know the products of clever wordsmiths really do bring value to their organizations.

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Donating my time doesn’t mean all my time …

Posted by CindyAE
When you invite a colleague to participate in another state, and he/she donates their time, do you care if they get additional inconveniences?Tonight I got an email ...

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