The Obama Campaign was successful in using social media to inform, gain, and mobilize voters. Awhile back I collected a bunch of the ongoing...
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You Own This: Pieces of American History
“Migrant Mother,” by Dorothea Lange, is the most famous photo in the Library of Congress. This 1936 portrait of Florence Thompson and her children symbolizes both economic hardship and the strength to survive. The Library is honored to preserve Lange's original camera negative and makes the digitized photo freely available.
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What Are Your 5 Favorite Sites?
My 5 favorite sites has been replaced by my network of friends and followers on Twitter. Following people from different professions and industries
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Live Tweeting (no, not the Oscars)
Sitting on my couch at 1:44 am, thinking I shouldn't have taken that 3 hour nap at 7pm; my mindless ESPN watching was interrupted by a tweet from @NASA: "OCO launch update: Liftoff is now set for 4:55 EST. Catch it on www.nasa.gov/ntv". This was a lot more interesting than watching the rerun segment...
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Twitter’s “Suggested User” Feature
Twitter has been incorporating a new feature called "suggested user". When an individual signs up on Twitter one of the first things they are presented with upon completion are suggested users. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams explained that, "The reason we created this feature is because lots of people sign up to Twitter but aren't...
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Twitter Remote (beta)
Twitter Counter recently released a widget called Twitter Remote. Twitter Counter is a great utility that shows you how you are trending on Twitter. It shows you if you are losing followers, adding followers, projected numbers based on increases etc. It also allows you to compare you stats against another user and if your...
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