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Introducing Dr. Fareed Zakaria
Last week, I had the honor of introducing Dr. Fareed Zakaria for his lecture given for Queens University of Charlotte’s Learning Society Lecture Series at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC. Zakaria, the popular host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and editor for Time magazine, gave an hour lecture without a note and delighted…
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Space in the Margins
When I teach Layout and Design, we spend a great deal of time talking about margins. Margins organize space in a design by allowing “white space” to offset the area containing the content on a page. For example, on this website, you’ll see a margin to the left containing, well, nothing, and a margin to…
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What Would Google Do? (Jarvis, 2009)
What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis (2009) Bill Gary summarizes the discussion this way: “Rather than being a solution for your customers, be a platform and allow the public to build on your platform.” The focus is to help your customers use your products they way they need to. Google’s business model is not…
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The Laws of Simplicity (Maeda, 2006)
The Laws of Simplicity: Design, technology, business, life by John Maeda (2006) “Simplicity is sanity,” says Patti Palmer, quoting John Maeda. “Maeda is trying to get us to examine ourselves and simplify our lives.” It’s not an attempt to have us root out our craziness, but rather to articulate balance in our lives. One of…
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What’s Mine is Yours (Botsman & Rogers, 2010)
What’s Mine is Yours: The rise of collaborative consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (2010) “Unbeknownst to me, this was a book I was meant to read,” says Amy Martin. The need and market for trading, sharing, and reusing stuff is growing. Landfill space and space for storage is outpacing our growth as a…
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Putting the Public Back in Public Relations (Solis & Breakenridge, 2009)
Putting the Public Back in Public Relations by Brian Solis and Dierdre Breakenridge (2009) “I’ve always been curious about the use of social media in public relations,” says Valarie Udeh. “Putting the Public Back in Public Relations is about putting the relationship, the conversation, back into the old-school public relations model.” Solis and Breakenridge discuss…
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Defining Digital and Media Literacy
It’s not your daddy’s literacy. Discussions of media literacy in America have traversed the media landscape from newspapers and advertising, to television, radio and film, to Internet-based media. With new focus turning to literacy in digital realms, some, like Knight Foundation and Queens University of Charlotte, are examining media literacy in its increasingly digital form.…
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Speaking and Learning in Tweets: a field guide to Twitter language
This presentation is intended for Twitter beginners, to explore the language used to link information in Twitter. I delivered it as part of the Knight School of Communication’s digital media learning workshops series offered at Queens University of Charlotte and shared it here for interested others. As always, your comments and feedback on this presentation…
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How and Why I Teach Social Media.
What are the benefits of the Twitters? Why should I care about social media? Who cares what I had for breakfast? These questions slide off the tongues of my colleagues, friends and neighbors when they learn that I teach courses in social media. I usually answer with an explanation of my own perceived benefits, but…
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Would you give up Facebook for $300?
In his article, “Can she go a month without Facebook,” the Charlotte Observer‘s Eric Frazier chronicles the quest of a Rock Hill mother who bet her daughter $300 to go a month without Facebook. Why? So the daughter can focus on her studies at the University of South Carolina – Upstate. Below is an excerpt…
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