A recent article on Mashable about the predictions of how news media will change in 2011, got me thinking about how these sort of predictions might effect how government distributes it’s own news. Government is still very much in the process of pushing news out via news releases. It’s even pushing the same content out,Read… Read more »
Update (11/29/2010): Here’s a link to the new USGS Facebook Page. Yesterday, I posted a QR code which, when scanned with a smartphone (or just decoded by clicking the link in the post), would open up a new event for your calendar. The description of the event was “If you like science, you’ll Like this.”Read… Read more »
This is called a QR code. If you have a smartphone, like a Droid, iPhone, and some others, then you can use the built barcode scanner apps (or download a free one if you don’t have a built in one) to scan the QR image. The image contains information which your phone can identify. InRead… Read more »
I will admit up front that I’m not well versed on the top of mobile alerts to emergency situations, so what little I’m sharing here is only my morning’s knowledge. I also admit that my thoughts to simply remove something from my life for personal reason has actually led me down the path of discovery.Read… Read more »
I just recently set up a second Twitter (@S_Horv) account for strictly professional reasons so that I could tweet work-related information, updates, social media happenings, etc. The first account I established was a personal account. However, over time, the personal account turned into more tweeting about things related specifically to my area of expertise thanRead… Read more »
Update: There’s more than just two new features. You can see a good summary here as well: http://www.maclife.com/article/features/everything_you_need_know_about_new_facebook_features If you weren’t able to watch today’s live Facebook announcement, “Zuck” listed two major new options that will start rolling out to Facebook. The first one is a new Groups function. I won’t go into the detailsRead… Read more »
In the spirit of a post by Andrew Wilson, awhile back, on the benefits of making checklists to improve your work, I wanted to offer an easy way to make a checklist yourself..more specifically the infamous “to-do” list. What I like most about these to-do list options is that they offer a quick and easyRead… Read more »
In the true spirit of “wisdom of the crowds,” I’d like to ask GovLoop members one simple question: If you had to choose one reason why leadership must use, and embrace, social media, what would that one reason be? And why? (OK, two questions) I’m really curious about this. We [social media practitioners] often hearRead… Read more »
Everyone needs a little fun from time to time, right? Something to think about which sparks that inner creativity that you probably don’t get to unleash during your daily grind? If that’s the case then let’s see how creative you are? Let your hair down, or loosen up that tie, and get those creative juicesRead… Read more »
Today, Google launched their new Google Fonts Directory. This directory provides websites with a list of free fonts that are hosted “in the cloud” and downloaded to the browser as the page loads. These aren’t just ordinary fonts like Verdana, but more of what you would call custom fonts. Right now the list is small,Read… Read more »