Social Media and Academic Careers on IHE

By erik, on August 7th, 2009%

When I saw the title for the below link in my email, I thought “Oh boy, another ‘don’t-put-anything-on-the-internet-because-it-will-kill-your-career’ post,” and prepared to blog about how this culture of paranoia is hurting academia, etc., etc.

Blog U.: Ask the Administrator: Social Media and Academic Careers – Confessions of a Community College Dean – Inside Higher Ed.

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Twitter practices

By erik, on March 6th, 2009%

Since I’ve been talking about twitter lately, I thought I’d share some thoughts about how I’ve been using it, and how this differs from some of my other social networking practices.

When I first started doing social networking regularly (was it Friendster? Tribe? Let’s say Myspace), I was very particular about whom I friended. I . . . → Read More: Twitter practices

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Twitter links

By erik, on March 4th, 2009%

While poor Kim is making the unnecessarily painful decision about whether to join twitter, I just clicked on three links from my twitter friends, two of which are about twitter, and all of which I will share with you.

From Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson), a NYTimes article about the Kindle for iPhone, in which Steve Jobs . . . → Read More: Twitter links

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Sharing and Stalking

By erik, on July 9th, 2008%

Back in May of 05, I wrote about distributed identity, and posted links to a number of sites with which I share information about myself, such as last.fm, flickr, etc. I mused about exhibitionism and sharing, but the problem then is that if anyone were actually interested, for some reason, in following my activities, they . . . → Read More: Sharing and Stalking

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