Home to more than 3,000 charities and nonprofits, 270 neighborhood associations, and dozens of coalitions and community groups, New Orleans is in the midst of a civic renaissance. Frustrated with inept and inefficient local and federal governments, the people of New Orleans have harnessed the vast power of the Internet to network, fill their needs, and reach out to the traditional media. Armed with blogs, Twitter, Yahoo groups, and wikis, nonprofits and citizen groups are transforming grassroots community, organizing into a potent force that is helping to determine how New Orleans will be rebuilt.
Tweetdeck Adds Facebook and MySpace, Will Crowdsource Information Filtering | Epicenter... - 0 views
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story about new features in tweetdeck
The Wired Campus - Can Twitter Turn Students Into Better Writers? - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views
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another article on writing and twitter
Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' L... - 0 views
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Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation1 Sebastián Valenzuela 1 Namsu Park 1 Kerk F. Kee 1 1 University of Texas at Austin 1 Earlier versions of this study were presented at the 2008 International Symposium on Online Journalism and the 2008 APSA Preconference on Political Communication. For intellectual and financial support on this research, we thank Sharon Strover. Helpful comments at various stages were provided by Jeff Gulati and Talia Stroud. Corresponding author: Sebastián Valenzuela [sebastianvalenzuela@mail.utexas.edu] ABSTRACT This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals' social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2,603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students' life satisfaction, social trust, civic engagement, and political participation. While these findings should ease the concerns of those who fear that Facebook has mostly negative effects on young adults, the positive and significant associations between Facebook variables and social capital were small, suggesting that online social networks are not the most effective solution for youth disengagement from civic duty and democracy.
Educational Software - World University - 0 views
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Free software downloads from World University Wiki. Welcome to World University which anyone can add to or edit. The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting}, Multilingual University & School where anyone can teach or take a class or course
Networking through Disaster : Local Knowledge - 0 views
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Yet what makes post-Katrina New Orleans unique is the degree to which digital networks have become ensconced in physical communities, even four years later. This digital revolution is not limited to bloggers and tech geeks—many people who had barely used the Internet before Katrina for more than sending e-mails are some of the leaders of the grassroots digital activism movement.
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views
Next to Normal - 0 views
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Next to Normal, the musical, was posted in Tweets and Twitter, but there's also a widget linked from this home site that you can use to listen to the songs.
twitterperformance.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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Performance of the Broadway show, Next to Normal, in Tweets.
Twitter, a Service of Few Words And Many Followers, Goes Silent - WSJ.com - 0 views
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A front page (!) article in the Wall Street Journal that makes a point of sarcastically laughing at people who couldn't broadcast their "every thought" to the world when Twitter went down for a few hours. The problem: the authors don't even mention any other use for Twitter except soul-baring (education, relevant link sharing, etc.).
Teens Don't Tweet? Not true! « Social Media Obsession and Other Matters - 0 views
`IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication -- Rami... - 0 views
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(Sage has free access to this journal for a couple of months after August 1st if you register.) `IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication Artemio Ramirez, Jr Arizona State University, artemio.ramirezjr.1@asu.edu Kathy Broneck Pima Community College Few studies to date have examined the use of Internet applications in enacting `everyday' routine relational maintenance and even fewer assess how such tools complement more traditional forms of communication to sustain involvements. This exploratory study examines the role of one such tool, instant messaging (IM), in relational maintenance. Participants (N = 402) reported their general use of IM (Stage 1) and subsequently conducted and reported on a specific interaction occurring either through IM or face to face (Stage 2). Among IM users, significant gender and the types of relationships differences emerged in `every communication.' Findings also indicate how IM is being utilized in conjunction with other communication channels. New research opportunities for examining relational maintenance processes employing IM are advanced. Key Words: computer-mediated communication * instant messaging * Internet * relational maintenance * routine interaction Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 291-314 (2009) DOI: 10.1177/0265407509106719
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`IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication Artemio Ramirez, Jr Arizona State University, artemio.ramirezjr.1@asu.edu Kathy Broneck Pima Community College Few studies to date have examined the use of Internet applications in enacting `everyday' routine relational maintenance and even fewer assess how such tools complement more traditional forms of communication to sustain involvements. This exploratory study examines the role of one such tool, instant messaging (IM), in relational maintenance. Participants (N = 402) reported their general use of IM (Stage 1) and subsequently conducted and reported on a specific interaction occurring either through IM or face to face (Stage 2). Among IM users, significant gender and the types of relationships differences emerged in `every communication.' Findings also indicate how IM is being utilized in conjunction with other communication channels. New research opportunities for examining relational maintenance processes employing IM are advanced. Key Words: computer-mediated communication * instant messaging * Internet * relational maintenance * routine interaction Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 291-314 (2009) DOI: 10.1177/0265407509106719
Social Networking Backup - 0 views
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Options for backing up social media from Bob Rankin. Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, MySpace
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