by Whitney | Mar 19, 2012 | community, Discovery, education, explanations, social media
I come to blogging through Podcasting. As a podcaster, I’ve tried to model what I do in interviews on the work of Terry Gross and Ira Glass, who have a way of making an emotional connection with their interview subjects and their audience by getting people to...
by Whitney | Feb 29, 2012 | community, economics, education, learning, new media, social media
Seth Godin put out an interesting manifesto on education yesterday, called Stop Stealing Dreams. It’s a free download and can be read online, printed, or read in any ebook format. I strongly recommend it to anyone even remotely interested in education. I...
by Whitney | Feb 9, 2012 | Marketing, social media, Uncategorized
This week, I’ve stumbled across several examples that make me wonder how product launches are going to work in the future. In the land of radical transparency and social media, leaks and speculations happen all the time. Rumors about Apple and future product...
by Whitney | Feb 5, 2012 | business, social media, Uncategorized
I’ve been experimenting on and off with various audience measurement and influence measurement tools. Klout, Crowd Source, Peer Index- you name it. Some experiments have been short term. Others have been subtle changes is when and how I participate on various...
by Whitney | Jan 25, 2012 | community, education, social media
*Quick note- I accidentally published this piece before it was edited- a quirk from using the iPad to compose in the WordPress app and save in draft format, which I messed up. Sorry for any inconvenience. Sometimes, we know we’re going to encounter a problem...
by Whitney | Dec 5, 2011 | books, community, social media, Uncategorized
In the world of the internet, as Ferris Bueller once said, “Life Moves Pretty Fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” But because things do move so fast now, are we becoming more and more reactionary and less...
