Ag and Food Communities Building Through Social Me...
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sustagchat agriculture social foodchat media twitter youtube payn-knoper food networking agchat | Social Media | Wednesday June 17, 2009 | By Bob Bertsch
On the third Tuesday of each month, #agchat ( http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23agchat ), the Twitter-based conversation of agriculture issues founded by Michele Payn-Knoper ( http://twitter.com/mpaynknoper ) , broadens its focus to to become #foodchat (...
June Training: Social Media, Google Docs and Ag CM...
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social web ag google cms training media twitter | CMS | Tuesday June 02, 2009 | By Bob Bertsch
June will be a busy month for technology training. There are a number of sessions, both face-to-face and online, available to faculty and staff in Agriculture and University Extension.
This month's training will focus on the new Ag Content Management...
First AgChat a Success
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agriculture networking social twitter farming media agchat tweetchat conversation | Social Media | Wednesday April 08, 2009 | By Bob Bertsch
Last night, I joined a number of producers, media and professionals for the inaugural Agchat. Michelle Payn-Knoper (@mpaynknoper on Twitter) has organized Agchat as a "weekly conversation for folks involved in the business of growing food, fuel, feed...
The Decline of Print
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technology time television online mission seattle print newspaper media | Ed Tech | Tuesday March 17, 2009 | By Bob Bertsch
Today, March 17, 2009, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its last print edition ending the newspaper's 146-year history ( http://tinyurl.com/djc2q2 ). The news organization will continue online at www.seattlepi.com , but like a growing number of...
Second Life and the Social Media Conference
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conference second social web life morrill media island technology collaborative ndsu eduisland extension | Ed Tech | Wednesday February 04, 2009 | By Bob Bertsch
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of meeting with a group of NDSU faculty, staff, and students interested in the use of collaborative technologies on our campus. David Saxowsky invited me to attend a meeting of the NDSU Collaborative Technology Think...
Weaving the Social Web
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interconnected facebook networks gold feed media friend social harry | Social Media | Wednesday January 28, 2009 | By Bob Bertsch
I recently had the opportunity to attend the webinar, "Social Media Is About Socializing", presented by Harry Gold of Overdrive Interactive. There were a number of things in Mr. Gold's presentation that I took note of, but one of his most resonant...
Twitter's Emerging Role in Breaking News
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media hudson social news twitter | Social Media | Friday January 16, 2009 | By Bob Bertsch
Twitter , a free social networking and micro-blogging site, demonstrated its emerging role in breaking news yesterday (1/15/2009) when US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York City.
Within minutes of the crash Twitter...