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Social Media and Technology
with Lindsey Robbins

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Co-Authoring in Microsoft SharePoint
Authoring in SharePoint – a world unto its own for those of you brave enough to venture into adding web parts, setting up sites and workspaces, and playing around with site settings. I find it’s often more like a treasure hunt than a systematic process...
Can you Digg It?
I confess. I don’t Digg and I have no idea what to use it for. In fact, just the other day I submitted my first article. And it doesn’t even really count since it’s one of my own blog posts. I just wanted to test the process. Sadly, as of today, 6 days...
Don’t Overlook the Obvious with Wikis
Being in the business of explaining technical things, it’s easy to skip the obvious and jump to the difficult stuff. After all, since we can make educated guesses of what people will struggle with; why not jump to explaining that content? However, doing...
Content Reuse is Super (and not just for technical writers)
In my day-to-day world as a technical writer (no, I’m not paid to be a blogger) we often think about how to reuse the content we write. Whether it’s content that’s similar from program to program or whether we’re thinking about different output (publishing...
Social Media Magic
Participating in social media can perform magic. How? It can magically take all your time and make it disappear! You started working on a short blog post. It’s only a couple paragraphs long. You write and re-write. Read it aloud to yourself. Change some...
Paring Down the Tweets
A week later and my experiment with paring down the number of people I follow has worked wonders (so far). I’m back to following people without as much anxiety and I can keep up without dedicating my every working moment to watching the stream of collective...
Connecting and Inspiring Activism on YouTube
My bad. I wish I could say my blog disappearing act was a result of these two distracting me... L-R: Hanna, Ike But in reality, I've been absorbed in my little world where I've been split between The Education Edge , Student Information System...
Using Social Media to Connect with your Audience: A True Story
I’m in shock right now. Something totally awesome and unexpected just happened. It was my lunch time, I was checking out Facebook , and this friend of a friend popped up online and had an off-topic question. We were chatting for a minute when he mentioned...