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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Now more affordable technology exists to make virtual worlds even more immersive than Second Life ever was thanks to products like Oculus Rift. The technology extracts monitors brain activity and can be used for wellness, consumer insights, research, and even controlling things (a major use-case for people lacking mobility).

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Thank you and some free books for Christmas reading

The Way of the Web

Plus everyone that’s helped me set-up sites, answered my own questions, and anyone that’s come along to the #DPiP meetups or chatted at conferences etc. ‘Insider’s Guide to Mobile: Free Edition’ by Tomi Ahonen. ‘Virtual Justice’ by Greg Lastowka. ‘Content’ by Cory Doctorow.

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What You Need to Know About the LinkedIn Virtual Events Guide

agora pulse

Running a LinkedIn event will get people to put a date in their diary to attend, just like they do for a real-life conference. I’d add to this: Always have a back-up Internet connection, even if it’s a mobile hotspot. Every conference has two benefits: Building skills and knowledge. Experienced live streamers will agree.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Other topics (or "lessons") could include the following: RSS, flickr , Wikipedia , social bookmarking, search engines/blog search engines, virtual worlds, VoIP/Skype, mobile media, interactive gaming, and other tools that can be found on this nice list on the Teaching PR blog. mobile web. RECENT JOBS.

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Web 2.0 and Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) " Learning Matters!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And Korea is the place to look to as they are the leading adopters in this space as it was with DoCoMo in mobile many years ago in Japan. learning&# was a topic for a panel discussion at the recent eLearning Guild conference. All you gotta do is look at what is going on in Korea with CyWorld to see that. Anyway enough about that.

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Adria is a organic technology consultant, business developer, technology trainer, and empowerment / tech conference addict. Her blog, She Geeks , covers education, mobile, social media, web, and technology. Deborah is the conference director for Blog World Expo, as well as a professional blogger and social media enthusiast.

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

For instance, the idea that TED TALKS charges $6,000 a ticket for a conference, and have a waiting list of wannabe attendees, yet put each conference presentation video, with high production values, up online, is an anathema to them. Freemium and Growth. Freemium and TV Film Newspapers.