Social Software

At the NVHA Social Media conference a couple of weeks ago some speakers recommended using Flickr (just acquired by Yahoo!). I thought, "What’s the big deal with photo sites?" When I started doing phone-cam pics, however, I started a "photo steam" at Flickr to keep my impulsive pics off of FISpace. But now I’m beginning to "get" what Flickr is ...

The Washington Post recently published an article entitled, "Blogging Clicks with Colleges". In my opinion, it wasn’t a very well-written article. I thought I’d get a lot of information on blog use at the college/university level, but the reporter doesn’t seem to make a very good distinction between blogs and wikis in her article and then ends the by introducing ...

A question frequently asked about blogging is: How do you write a successful blog? At the NVHA Innovations Conference we heard over and over similar recommendations. A good blog is: Unfiltered by editorial oversight Honest Open to comments Has personality Is written with passion. I think Stowe Boyd has put the best phrase on the essence of blogging: True Voice. ...

Stowe Boyd has got just the thing for us would-be bloggers: a T-shirt. (Wasn’t it inevitable?) He’s testing the market for a shirt for those with True Voices. Would you rather wear a T-shirt that says "will blog for food" that looks like it was scrawled on cardboard by a homeless guy or one penned by a draftsman? I voted ...