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Re: Happy Birthday To Me

Lee — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:27:34 -0000

Hi Leo,
Like you, I work to reach out to educators all over. In my case, mostly 12,000 teachers in my district alone but often I get to do presentations at conferences elsewhere and online, etc. A project I'm currently working on is building a del.icio.us network of Twitter_EdTech people to share their bookmarks. It actually started out with the Twitter network, but I'm hoping all educators with similar bookmarks will join the network. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at how it works, and if you would join it would require only a second of your time and would do a lot for the credibility of this project. There are two brief posts for you to read. The first one is just how it works. It's the call-out to join. The second post is the follow up on how I plan to expand the use of the network to share with others during a breakout session at a technology conference. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2008/02/creating-d...

http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-tweet-...

As if I haven't asked enough, if you can give a small plug for others to join it in your blog or as a tweet, that would be awesome!

Thank you so much!

Re: It’s Not Spam, It’s Marketing On Twitter

Lee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:12:55 -0000

Not sure I understand, how is it spam if they follow you and you don't follow them? You can choose not to receive their updates which is how they are pushing out their messages. ~ Lee

Re: If I Can Do This, Anybody Can

Lee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:42:01 -0000

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That's awesome. I think sometimes, the best conversations and even, presentations come out of spur of the moment opportunities like the one you described. I wish I was there to partake. I tell (skeptical) teachers all the time, about my background, as an elementary teacher who was always too nervous to speak in front of her own faculty. On parent night, my stomach would hurt and I'd avoid talking to the parents by showing a self-playing 30-minute PowerPoint of the kids work instead. It's hard to believe that I would do that, but I've grown to be a trainer, collaborator, presenter, blogger, Twitterer, etc. by making myself take small steps out of my comfort zone. If I can do it, anyone can!!

Thanks for sharing your story. ~Lee

Re: MicroBlogging Is About to Go All McDonalds On Us and I’m Tired Of It.

Lee — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:43:55 -0000

I don't think anyone will argue with you, David, about not needing ANOTHER social network. Not many of us have patience for multiple places to do the same things.

I would argue though, that usage is killing Twitter. That's why the vultures are coming in. Twitter was never intended to be used the way its being used today. Originally, the tagline, "What are you doing?" was meant to be like an IM "away message." You could broadcast a message to 900 of your closest friends.

The developers at Twitter didn't anticipate that all 900 would be @replying to you. The evolution and the impact on the servers came as a surprise to those at Twitter. Also, even IF the Twitter servers are tweaked (no pun intended) to handle the load, I still believe the next best thing will still kill Twitter. For awhile people will stick around. Just like there are still people who have TVs with rotary dials.

Today, people have a low tolerance for sameness. Everyone gets bored easily and needs that next fix more quickly than the last. Look at cell phones today. Who keeps their cellphones beyond 2 years? (And its not because they are breaking.)

Here's why Twitter is not safe:
Twitter evolved into a conversation tool, but the end user has a hard time tracking conversations and has to rely on a 3rd party app to do so. Plurk allows users to follow conversation much more easily. Users can even link to entire conversations on a single page. Here's an example:
http://www.plurk.com/p/14zxr

Interfaces are slightly different, but people will learn. Problem with jumping from Twitter is that people don't want to leave their networks behind.

Plurk allows you to import your friends from Twitter and identi.ca is coming forth with a Twitter integration feature, as well.

My point being that these apps are just small blips on the road to social networking progress.

We may have to agree to disagree here. I do love Twitter and I'm loving Plurk too.

There's room on the playground (right now) for a few to play nicely, but pretty soon there will be a shiny new toy coming along and Twitter (and Plurk and all these other Twitter-wanna-be's) will be buried under the sand.

Don't get too attached.

~Lee
@teachakidd on Twitter and Plurk

Re: Check the Twitter Tree

Lee — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:13:40 -0000

I love it! In the same holiday spirit, I invite all Twitterers to leave their holiday comment here: http://ed.voicethread.com/share/283273/

Nothing like making Twitter more interactive. Have a great holiday and an even greater new year.

Re: Update on Discovery Educator Network scraping my content…

Lee — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:35:00 -0000

Patrick,
What Heather did was wrong, but at this point you should leave it alone. Many of us are novice bloggers and are just figuring things out. I can imagine how humiliating this must be for her and rest assured, the lesson has been learned.

We can all benefit from Heather's inappropriate action on her blog. Your reaction is justified and serves to help us all realize how serious many bloggers are about what they do (and rightfully so). Intellectual property is a serious thing and yet, such a difficult thing to protect.

Legal action? What are the damages? In fact, I'd say it has not only generated good publicity for you, but has served as a good "community service" warning for all of us. The Discovery Educator Network is all about education, teaching and learning. That's what's happening right here, right now and like it or not, you've been pulled into it and at the same time you're making a positive impact on the blogging community, so... Let it go. Lesson learned. 'nuff said.

Re: SimplyBox - revolutionizing student research?

Lee — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:08:17 -0000

Jerry,
This was terrific and your tutorial saved me a few hours of having to figure this out for myself. Thank you for sharing this great find!

Re: Do you think Twitter will see mass adoption in 2008? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Lee — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:08:26 -0000

I definitely think people need to give Twitter a chance because too often people get the wrong idea when think "social." And so social networking tools, like Twitter, get a bad rap! For me and my "network" it's more about advancing our ideas. We are a group of progressive educators who try to get teachers and decision makers to think out of the box. Our circle uses Twitter, for example, to share examples of great teaching practices. We blog about these contantly and share great ideas. It is a non-linear effort to push people out of their comfort zone to teach students IN their comfort zone!

http://www.macmomma.blogspot.com/

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/kolbert/

Re: The Social Marketing Campaign: Are You Social? We Are!

Lee — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:50:32 -0000

Hi Kyle,
Did you create that graphic? May I borrow it (with proper credit to you)? I'm doing an online staff development for teachers on social networking and your graphic would be awesome to use.

Please email me with your response.

Kolbert at mac.com

Thank you,
Lee

Re: What Were Your First Steps

Lee — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:43:53 -0000

Not sure this would be considered Social "Media" but 30 years ago, I set up a CB radio base station in my bedroom and used to "chat" with my friends (most of whom I didn't really know - just like with today's teens and "chatting"). Since then, I'd say AOL 1.0 chat rooms, then the big leap to Digg. As for an role models? Hmmm, I'll have to think on that.

Re: Five Things You Could Learn From Bob LeDrew

Lee — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:46:47 -0000

Chris,
Great post and very applicable to my work as an administrator in education. I tend to over analyze my "performance" when in a meeting or presenting, or even in conversations and this is something I am really working on.

You've inspired me to write a post on my blog about this as well. I'll get right on it after I'm done obsessing about how it will turn out. :)

Thanks for such a thought provoking post.

Lee (aka @Teachakidd)