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Interesting article on the increasing trend of live-blogging in mainstream news coverage - specifically refers to two Toronto-based start up companies: ScribbleLive and CoveritLive.  The Globe and Mail for instance used ScribbleLive to cover Hurricane Sandy. 

Twitter posted this "Best Practices for journalists" on their blog. Twitter wasn't 'meant' or built to be a tool for professional communicators but has obviously been used as such since its creation. I just found it really interesting that the tool is telling the storyteller how to do his/her job. I wonder why Twitter as an organization felt the need to post this best practices for journalists. What is the communication strategy here? Do they hope to change Twitter practices? Bring in more would-be journalists on the site? They even include quantitative research and examples to support their recommendations!

An example of technology and social shaping -- how blogs have changed over the last ten years.

Building off of Yates article...Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm asked applicants to send links representing their "Web presence," such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog. Something to think about when applying for internships and jobs in the future!

I agree with you Rya. While I appreciate such innovation, it's difficult for me to comprehend the privacy issues related with such a thing. Doesn't LinkedIn suffice anymore?

I agree with both of your comments Rya and Raman. There really does seem to be a privacy issue here. I suppose with all the recent competition for work, employers are looking for ways to distinguish candidates (doesn't seem fair). Although we started off building our "online presence" for personal reasons, there appears to be a need to build a public professional presence as well. Perhaps the trick is to keep your personal account private to maintain our sense of privacy and start building an online professional profile that is public. Blogging about a professionally related topic, linking field-specific articles etc. might be the way to get noticed.

A cool infographic that explains how to promote your blog.

This resource offers national programs targeted to communication professionals including conferences and speaking tours. It offers an accreditation program (Accredited Business Communicator or ABC) The IABC offers student membership (http://www.iabc.com/join/). There is also a very useful Student Connection Blog available with relevant updates and links - http://students.iabc.com/sc/.

While writing my blog, I found this article which backed up an opinion I had about the use of technology. This is a blog written by an elementary school teacher in California. He writes about using technology in the classroom -- that it should be for learning and not for technology's sake. He brings up some interesting examples and scenarios.

It's amazing that we repeatedly face this debate. Educators at all levels are continually facing a technologically determinist position from the public, technology companies and policy makers. But the writer of this post illustrates really well, that it's how technology is used that's important. Thanks for the great post.

This blog post from the Harvard Business Review fits perfectly into the readings from this past week for PC8005. It speaks to the importance of existing in two systems: local market and global corporation. Great real-world examples are provided.

This is a really interesting scholarly article I came across whilst putting together my last scholarly blog. The study examines the relationship between the use of Facebook and the formation and maintenance of social capital.

Came across this well-written blog that says we should change the way students are assessed in the educational system. For instance, changing the way test questions are shaped can allow a student to think critically, test the student's ability to access resources and experts available online and provide them with practical, real-world experience.

While I think grammar is always important, it is especially relevant to us as professional communicators. This blog from HBR explores why proper grammar matters.

News organizations sometimes post content that was apparently captured by citizen eyewitnesses without any clear attribution as to the original producer. Citizens are posting copyrighted material without permission. And the creator of some material cannot be identified. All this creates the potential for news to be manufactured, or even falsified, without giving audiences much ability to know who produced it or how to verify it.

This is a great blog from HBR that explores the importance of change readiness (implies that change is always present) as opposed to change management (implies change is new and needs to be managed) and which communication tools can support change.

Is it the technology or the teaching? Toshiba says: "Creativity, innovation, information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving- these are the skills that students need in order to work effectively and live productively in today's digital world," said Kimberly Giles, Principal at St. Leonard. "The use of technology in the classroom helps us create an environment that fosters these skills."

I thought No. 10 was interesting if you were asked to give a company social networking advice -- get on a network even if you don't think you can...make it work for you.

A really interesting read about the state of digital teams in the nonprofit sector. Senior online leaders from 67 nonprofit organizations contributed to the final report. You can also download the world's first digital team structure benchmark for the nonprofit sector for free: http://digitalteams.org/

We've been talking about Wente in class so much recently, I thought it would be good to take a look at an article she wrote concerning a topic we are all familiar with: university. Interesting to see the rhetorical devices at play.

Really amazing rebuttal to her comments here: http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2012/10/22/wentes-university-prescription-is-misguided/ worth it if you can fit it in!

To follow up on the topic of branding that was discussed during yesterday's mashup, here's a look at how certain big brands have taken advantage of branding using Facebook features.

In light of our discussion on micro-blogs this week and the different models of public relations, I thought this addition of the "reply" to Facebook comments was an interesting development in terms of user-generated content and feedback to brands. It will be interesting to see whether their "experiment" is actually successful.

Instagram has been around for two years but it's really only taken off since the beginning of 2012. Since this is the first calendar year in which it's been a major social media player it is interesting to see the records it keeps breaking in terms of most popular day yet on Insta. In the past month both Hurricane Sandy and now Thanksgiving have broken the record. I can only imagine that X-mas next month will keep the records going - people love to Instagram food pictures.