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FearlessVK is on Twitter now. She has some questions. The thing is, now that I’ve got the account, I really haven’t the foggiest idea what to do with it. I’ve tweeted a grand total of six times, and I fear my tweets fall into the most typical category: utterly mundane updates about my daily...
From the Commercial Appeal: “The entire Department of Defense has only recently started to embrace social media as a valid means of communication, recognizing that the younger generation likes to communicate via Twitter, texting, etc.,” NSA-Mid-South spokesman David Crenshaw said by e-mail. “But we’re the first ones to really implement it the way we...
Nathan Ketsdever at Compassion in Politics has a post this morning about how this is impacting our state this morning. It is definitively time for universities to launch social enterprise programs, not only to serve their students but also their communities. With issues like corporate social responsibility, conscious capitalism, and developing products for emerging...
From the always insightful Cathy at Domestic Psychology on real life, television, meth and blogging. It’s a lot more fun to watch pretend characters answer the “what’s the price for your soul” question than to see it happening in the real world. Too many bloggers with opinions and ideas grew weary of being hungry...
You don’t think people use social media? Think again, and it’s not just the younguns. The percentage of Americans age 12 and older who have a profile on one or more social networking sites has reached almost half (48%) of the population in 2010, double the amount from two years ago (24% in 2008),...
GoldnI is focusing on Jeff Yarbro’s use of the innertubes to make some dough-re-mi, but inside her post she points out how interesting his campaign is From the candidate’s Flickr site going to get. I don’t know how much competition any candidate today would really have in raising money online, since our politicians in...
Cathy McCaughan deserves a great deal of credit for using online tools to spread the word about the school system in Knoxville. Michael Silence spotlighted her yesterday in his Sunday column. One of the area’s more active online warriors is West Knoxville’s Cathy McCaughan, who blogs at Domestic Psychology. With five kids, McCaughan is...
Buried in a story in the Commercial Appeal yesterday that was wrought with various confusing items from former Mayor Willie Herenton, we read the quote ” to hell with all the bloggers.” I had to really take some time to chew on that one from Herenton. On one hand, it’s probably good to see...
Piercing The Veil
Last week, I wrote about the lack of information filtering in from Nashville regarding politics. This has been an ongoing issue for as long as I’ve been blogging and in the news business much longer than that. It’s frustrating, to say the least, and I’m finding while meeting young people and other bloggers across...
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