How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media
Part of he reason I don't do many "how-to" posts (see more on this below): there is no shortage of "how-to" posts in the world. More...

Why I, Too, Killed My LinkedIn Account
Luis Suarez, E L U S A, May 7, 2014

OK, that's just the title, I haven't deleted my LinkedIn account, Luis Suarez has. But my own social media deletions are probably nor far in the future, though. Here's Heather Bussing: "I don’t agree to their Terms of Service, and I don’t need LinkedIn enough to put up with it." The terms give them permission to sell my information, to control who sees my information and to block competitors. More...

No Network Effect
Rafe Needleman tap into a long-standing concern of mine, networks that don't interoperate. Examples abound: instant messaging, social networks, push-to-talk, VoIP. While customers benefit from network effects, he writes, companies simply see it as lost revenue. More...

The Great Facebook Email Experiment Is Over
Mike Isaac, Recorde.net, February 26, 2014

You probably didn't know Facebook had an email service. Don't worry - nobody else did either. That's hwy it's shutting down. More...

Where Will the Current State of Blogging and Social Media Take Us?
Jacky Alciné, jacky.wtf, 2018/09/25
This post wanders a bit and never really gets around to making its main point, but the core message is that it's better to own your own online presence (and, therefore, your own stuff) than it is to be forced to rely on content silos like Twitter and Instagram. More...

Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet
Julia Reinstein, Buzzfeed News, 2018/09/04
Most of them started as teacher-bloggers, but through websites like TeachersPayTeachers and Instagram feeds these teachers have been supplementing their often-meagre income marketing props, aids and classroom supplies. “Some come just to share to help other teachers and to make a little extra pocket money,” said Freed. “And then some of them actually become extraordinary content creators, and they really become almost mini-publishers.” I'm glad that some teachers are able to use the internet to make some extra money. More...

Plan Now for a Year of Social Success (2018 Version)
Doug Peterson, doug — off the record, 2018/09/04
This is the time of the year teachers make decisions about social media, but this year the decisions are harder than usual. I actually reported this post when it was first published back in 2012. Doug Peterson offers what would usually be good advice: grab that class hashtag and start using it on Twitter. And tie this into your classroom blogging. More...