EduClipper Launches Its “Pinterest For Education” To Bring Better Crowdsourced Curation & Sharing To The Classroom. Back in 2007, Adam Bellow launched a site called eduTecher to aggregate and surface the best educational resources and content on the web.
A high school teacher, Bellow set out to highlight new technologies and educational tools that could be used in the classroom to improve the learning experience. When a new generation of community curation tools began to take hold on the web, like Pinterest, Bellow decided to leverage the increasing popularity of crowdsourced curation to take eduTecher to the next level. This week the teacher-turned-entrepreneur officially launched eduClipper, a platform that allows teachers and students to explore, share and contribute to a library of educational content.
In both function and design, it’s essentially a Pinterest for education, with one notable difference: Because eduClipper is built exclusively for teachers and students, unlike Pinterest, you probably won’t find it blocked by your local school. For more, find eduClipper at home here. Twitter Was The Fastest-Growing Social Network In 2012, Says Study [STATS]
Four keys to successful small business blogging and social media. A week or so ago I gave some marketing advice to a small business owner trying to promote his fly-fishing lodge.
It’s an incredible lodge, with access to world-class private fishing as well as being nestled smack dab in the middle of a National Forest—the perfect spot for a fly-fishing vacation. “Facebook is just for teenagers,” he said. “I’m wasting my time with social media, right?” For his situation, it was an easy answer. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, and blogging offered him a real opportunity to promote his lodge—provided he did it right.
The last several years of my career have been focused on content marketing (social media, blogging, PR, etc.). Fortunately, old dogs can learn new tricks. Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort - Mt Bachelor. Top 20 Mashable Reader Responses to "What is Social Media?" Marketing Implications of Mobile as the New Desktop. We've heard a lot about the "post-PC" world ever since Steve Jobs heralded its arrival with the launch of the iPad 2 in March 2011.
As Rachel Pasqua and I note in our forthcoming book, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day, Jobs’ proclamation, coming from the leader of a computer manufacturer, was alternately bold and precarious, signaling as it did that the future lies in portable computing devices like smartphones and tablets. Or maybe it was just recognition of the writing on the wall. Whatever your viewpoint, there is little denying the evidence. Apple's mobile devices now handily outsell its computers and the disparity between smart device and PC shipments continues to accelerate on a global basis. In 2011, smartphone shipments surpassed those of PCs by a large margin; by 2016, smart devices (phones and tablets combined) will be out-shipping PCs by more than 2 to 1, according to a March 2012 forecast from the International Data Corporation. Reclaimed Wood Life Cycle (Infographic) Four Apps that Help Kids Love to Learn!
Kids learn best when they’re having fun and don’t even realize that they’re learning.
Apps that teach while entertaining can help make learning painless. If you have a child who does best when learning is fun…wait…If you have a child, check out these iPad apps that make learning fun! None of these apps have advertisements nor do any of them offer in-app purchases. You don’t have to worry that your child will be bugging you to spend more money as a result of using these apps, but you may have difficulty getting your iPad back from your child!
All of these apps were tested by my expert team of children who gave them their seal of approval. Check out these four apps to help make learning fun for your kids! Operation Math Operation Math makes learning fun for kids by turning math problems into a spy game. This app recently won the 2012 Parent’s Choice Award and is designed for children ages 5-12. How the Best B2B Marketers Think Like B2C Marketers: Five Strategies to Emulate. Business-to-business (B2B) marketers have one of the most difficult and underappreciated jobs on the planet.
Their mission is to create memorable brands out of some downright "unsexy" products. (Have you ever tried making software, manufacturing widgets, or chemicals look interesting?) B2B marketers must educate extremely smart potential buyers, ensure that influencers are knowledgeable about their products, and ultimately convince people they should bet their jobs on choosing their products over those of competitors. Moreover, even while sticking to a limited marketing budget, B2B marketers must provide a hungry sales team with enough qualified leads to keep their pipelines full and their families fed.
How do they do it? Think Like a B2C Marketer The first step toward thinking like a B2C marketer is to create great brand recall. Of course, applying this method to B2B marketing is more challenging, but it can work. Smart B2B Marketing = B2C With a Twist 1. 2. 3. 4.