More people are using foursquare (just not me) « SocialSelf.Ca So…. I use it, ish. Foursquare in my life has come and gone for the most part. I used it when it first launched and was mayor of everything! I had my gym, I had my work, and even my favorite Starbucks. 4sq was an interesting way to engage with my favorite places and see who frequents them often; I even met a guy through foursquare! Maybe it’s because of the bad incident I had (Click here for deets) or maybe its because I opened my 4sq up to my twitter audience to easily, but I’m over it. Facebook places mind you, is something I am so far enjoying! Here is an infographic just released from Foursquare as to how people (just not me) are using it. Like this: Like Loading...
Topsy Social Analytics: Twitter Analytics For The Masses (& Free, Too) There are plenty of social analytics tools, but the most full-featured ones are often too expensive (i.e., geared towards enterprise-level users) and the inexpensive ones usually offer limited functionality. And then there’s Topsy Social Analytics, which was just launched this morning and immediately becomes one of the best free Twitter analytics tools I’ve seen. There are a number of ways to use it and, if you click that link to check it out, don’t be surprised if you spend the next hour there. With Topsy Social Analytics, you can analyze domains, Twitter usernames, or keywords — and they can be compared over four timeframes: one day, a week, two weeks or a month. Have a look at the three different types of comparisons: Topsy says it’s only counting “mentions that matter,” which they define as tweets that have a link or have been retweeted and don’t come from “bots or spam sources.” All of this is free.
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Area businesses finding friends in social networks January 31, 2011 Practice proving popular in Central Maine AUGUSTA -- If you're looking for an electrician, you're more likely to hire someone recommended by a friend than by an advertisement. click image to enlarge Eric Reynolds is the Internet Project Manager at Nancy Marshall Communications in Augusta. It's that kind of personal, word-of-mouth communication local businesses crave. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the better-known social media outlets that have emerged as valuable advertising vehicles, joining lesser-known sites called Linkedln, Foursquare, Yelp and TripAdvisor. For local businesses, the array of new media options allows them "to engage their current customers and find new ones in an ongoing conversation, and creates a network of people who are interested in their businesses," said Nancy Marshall, owner of Nancy Marshall Communications. Traditional advertising techniques still exist and may still even be the norm. Not very interactive. "That's been great," Houghton said.
There are alternatives to Blackboard and Moodle: Instructure Canvas goes open source Instructure, creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS), took an incredibly bold step to disrupt the LMS market today when they open sourced the code for Canvas. In a market dominated by Blackboard and the companies it buys, it's sometimes hard to look elsewhere. However, many schools, students, and teachers end up using Blackboard because either that's what's installed or because everyone else is using it. Sometimes it seems that your only choices in the LMS market are to either pay Blackboard for a relatively turnkey solution, pay a full-time Moodle developer who can really take advantage of the open source system and make it everything it needs to be for your institution, or pay a host like Moodlerooms and miss out on the deep customizability of the LMS. Canvas, though, provides an elegant solution that can be either hosted or supported on-premise (both for a fee) and supported internally with its now free Community Version.
Orb Social Media: Icon Pack This icon set, perfect for blogs and social-centered sites, has 32 different icons for popular web services such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, and even icons for Apple, Windows, Evernote, and much more. Each icon is 256x256px and in PNG format, which can be resized down to your needs. Preview Details File format: PNGSize: 256x256px Licensing: Free for commercial and personal projects under Freebie Files Usage TermsLimitation of use: Do not sell files or redistribute filesNumber of items: 32Number of files: 32 Download Source Files orb_social_media (ZIP, 1.16 MB) Author: Umar Irshad
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