Links for Monday

July 31, 2006

Thomas Reinartz has developed “The WIKI Roundable” as a resource for getting up to speed on using Wikis in education. He will speak at the annual Distance Education Conference this week in Madison.

Lee Hopkins counters several myths about corporate communication, good-naturedly shaking us by the shoulders and saying “Serious communication doesn’t have to be boring!“

Still not quite sure how to use tagging and bookmarking to manage your online information resources? Brendon Connelly offers “Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users.”

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Followup: Education writers N.O. conference

July 14, 2006

As I posted earlier, the Education Writers Association’s June 2006 annual meeting was held in New Orleans. Here’s a page full of links to photos, related stories in local and national newspapers, and documents, blogs, and podcasts related to conference presentations. The conference explored current math and science education and looked at how U.S. student achievement compares with that of international students. Because of the interest in the devastation of hurricane Katrina, writers toured local schools and colleges and some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods.

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Making your site Google friendly

July 12, 2006

Communicators want their online material to be helpful and easy to find. Google offers a series of tips for making your site Google-friendly, including: give visitors the information they’re looking for, make sure that other sites link to yours, and build your site with a logical link structure. There’s also a list of things to avoid.
In addition Google offers detailed Webmaster guidelines and how to add your site to Google’s search results.
There. Now I expect to see your site in the Top 10.

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Langemark’s Cafe a rich resource

July 6, 2006

I stumbled across Gunnar Langemark’s blog this morning and found it a treasure trove of resources on many subjects of interest to communicators, including social media, blogging, networking, journalism, user experience, info architecture, Web 2.0, metadata, knowledge management, and the list goes on. He offers individual news feeds on some of these topics. Check out his site map.

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New blog and eBook address “Influence”

June 19, 2006

The market influence analytics company Cymfony has launched a blog to help communicators understand "the new strategies, tactics and practices needed to harness the new dynamic of market influence." The blog will report findings and perspectives. Also, they have made available the first chapter in a new publication, the Influence 2.0 eBook which puts a framework around these changes. Three more chapters will be released over the next couple of weeks.

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Newspapers offer education RSS feeds

June 15, 2006

Here are some of the education-only RSS feeds offered by newspapers (and a couple online sources). Throw them into your feed aggregator and see what you think.

Atlanta Journal Constitution
Get Schooled (blog by Patti Ghezzi)

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/education/index.xml

Boston Globe

http://syndication.boston.com/news/globe/education?mode=rss_10

CNN.com

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_education.rss

Dayton Daily News
Get on the Bus (blog by Scott Elliott)

http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/index.xml

Los Angeles Times

http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/education

Manchester Guardian

http://education.guardian.co.uk/0,,472384,00.html?gusrc=rss

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

http://www.jsonline.com/rss/headlines/news-education.xml

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Education.xml

Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/rss.xml

San Diego Union Tribune http://rss.signonsandiego.com/parsers/feedParser?feedId=611&uuid=LKMKDIpFDDJDJEHDJDMHJpEFLBEDHBHDBEJF

San Jose Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/education/rss.xml

Seattle Post Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/rss/education_2.rss

The Oklahoman

http://www.newsok.com/rss/education.xml

Topix.net

http://rss.topix.net/rss/education/education.xml

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/education/index.xml

Washington Post (Jay Mathews education column)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400611.xml

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My Del.icio.us tags update

June 14, 2006

I've been posting lots of resources to my Del.icio.us page and invite you to click around anywhere you like, but in particular you should find some useful resources in these clusters:
education
PR
RSS

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PubSub offers alerts and measurement tool

June 14, 2006

 

PubSub offers a number of ways to automatically track subjects of particular interest to you. For some time I have used the RSS-based alert service which tracks a 'stack' of terms I created:Pubsub stack

The alerts show up in my RSS news aggregator (I use SAGE) and appear in bold face when there's news.

I've more recently started using PubSub's 'link ranks' tool that tracks your blog every day and measures the number of your posts (entries), outlinks, and inlinks. You're then presented with your blog's rank, based on PubSub's measurement of "the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in over 23 million sources that PubSub monitors."
Here's my link rank. It's quite modest. . .

 

pubsub rank

. . . but it's useful information, and helps inspire me to keep posting. To track your blog's link rank, go to this page and enter your URL.

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PRBlogs a rich resource

June 13, 2006

PRBlogs lists hundreds of blogs from all over the world that focus on public relations. The list is organized by country, then by source (for example, consultants, corporate, education, journalists, nonprofit). Constantin Basturea has assembled this magnificent resource for communicators. PR blogs is a nickname for weblogs about Public Relations and communication in an organizational context. Some PR blogs are personal, some are corporate, some are published by consultants focusing on how weblogs can be integrated in a business practice. "Whether a weblog is or isn't a PR blog is determined by the blog’s author and by its readers," he says. "There is no universally recognized set of criteria for it."

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Increase your blog traffic!

June 12, 2006

Sounds like a spam header, doesn't it.
But there are some useful ideas on Seth Godin's post. For one thing, it reminded me that I had fallen out of the habit of posting to Del.icio.us, so I started catching up.
I also particularly like his tip #7. Share your expertise generously so people regcognize it and depend on you, and #25. Encourage your readers to suibscribe by RSS, and #30. Point to useful but little-known resources.
When you read through the entire list, though, you begin to notice the 5 or 6 pairs of tips that contradict each other, a reminder that anything carried too far becomes a gimmick.

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