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" Today's "Hot Topics Wednesdays" episode is devoted to Pinterest. We have already talked about this social network (see below) that allows you to visually organize anything by pinning images on various boards. Now, how can you use this popular tool in your classroom?"

Great ideas! I see a lot of possibilities...with others courses, not mine :(

""During one of the keynotes," he explained, "I found myself really wanting to hear what others at the conference thought about the speaker's ideas, so I visited Twitter on my loaner device to do just that. I found that there was a rich back-channel conversation going on there, so I created a Twitter account for myself and jumped in." "It wasn't until that moment," he says, "that I realized that Twitter could be a medium for smart, engaging conversations, too. I've been an active user ever since.""

You can add tasks to your nodes, use them for things such as personal organization, or project management. Use the Tasks widget in the sidebar to assign tasks to your ideas. Priority and Completion are set using icons. Due Date denotes the deadline by which the task is to be completed. Assigned To should contain the name of the person responsible for completing the task. Click on the Remove button to remove a task.

"The idea of social business is to apply social software to improve and accelerate how work gets done on the inside of the firewall. Whereas social branding -- blogs, wikis, bookmarks, videos, message boards, Facebook, Twitter, and similar tools -- is increasingly being used by companies to communicate with the external world, what's often missing is the application of those same tools and techniques to create an open, supportive culture internally."

This is great especially since I am thinking about starting to blog later this summer. I was wondering about the idea of leaving room for others though... Does that mean don't share all the ideas/a definitive answer, or something related to the actual length of the blog (like ith the need ton leave space on a tweet for retweet purposes)! Also optimizing for google searches really just means inserting the key terminology, correct?

The sci-fi future where the co-evolution of human and machine pushes us towards a singularity is nearly upon us, but before we step into the realm of the cyborg, we're going to have to first get comfortable with the idea of wearable technology. We need look no further than Google Glass, which has occupied many a newspaper inch this past year, but the futuristic glasses are just the tip of the wearable tech iceberg. Analysts from research and analytics firm IHS predict that demand for wearable gadgets will go from 14 million to 200 million devices over the next two years.

Fashion Week needs reinvention. It's a perfect opportunity for innovators to come up with big ideas to 1) reach more of the world instantaneously and simultaneously; 2) unleash designers' creativity via animation, film, 3-D printing and interactivity; and 3) drive the discovery of new designers.

"Companies and organisations in their marketing audit should be assigning value to their social online properties and here is a core concept and some ideas to consider."

This article focuses on audience insight plus branding re: multimedia bulletin boards like Pinterest and 20Blinks.

Interesting article. I liked this comment: users don't necessarily have a preconceived idea of what they want-but they know what they want when they see it. This dynamic gives brands the opportunity to introduce products, concepts and content much earlier in the decision making process and actually drive discovery. I have seen things on Pinterest that I would never even had tried to search for.

"report, commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Happiness "

report, commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Happiness