http://www.mediacupcake.com a delicious indulgence of bite-sized media Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am working with Tanya Joosten to prepare our social media preconference workshop for the annual EDUCAUSE conference being held October 12-15, 2010 in Anaheim, CA. Our pre-conference session will focus on social media and its uses in higher education. If you are using social media - at all - in ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/08/tell-us-your-story/ I've seen some conversation this afternoon about "logo tweets" on twitter that's gotten me all ramped up and questioning how I feel about this topic. "Logo tweets" represent tweets from a brand/company/organization on twitter that has a photo of their logo instead of a personal photo of the person tweeting ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/08/logo-tweets/ As I was looking through my feeds, I saw this little snippet about online safety being taught to kids by none other than Phineas and Ferb. If you have young kids, you likely know about these two. If you don't - it's a kids show on Disney Channel that's fairly ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/05/online-safety-with-phineas-and-ferb/ As I mentioned previously, on Sunday night I accidentally deleted my twitter account. My personal account - the one I've used for years - the one with almost 17,000 tweets under its belt. When it first happened, I was in complete shock. I didn't know whether to cry or completely flip ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/04/free-to-be/ Tonight I accidentally deleted my twitter account. You are probably wondering how a person "accidentally" does that when you have to confirm it and are presented with a "hey are you aware if you do this..." type of message. Well, I'll tell you how. I had another twitter account that I ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/04/a-piece-of-me/ Anyone paying attention to twitter lately has no doubt seen what I think is an interesting meme in online communities... #fake(whatever). The first time I saw this was with a colleague of mine, @NikkiMK when she did a #fakeheweb hashtag last year leading up to the HighEdWeb conference. Recently I've ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/03/fake/ I was thinking tonight about how many times I see something from my RSS feeds retweeted (and retweeted, and retweeted) on twitter these days. A few months ago I would have told anyone that I'd take twitter over my RSS reader because I felt that if something was important, the ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/02/the-echo-chamber/ (this is a modified post from one just posted at "The Social Networking Girl") We'll just skip right over that obligatory line about, "Hey wow it's been a while since I blogged", because actually... it hasn't. Has it been a while since I blogged *here*? Absolutely, and this is the ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2010/01/uncluttering-and-getting-real/ http://www.mediacupcake.com/2009/08/a-new-kind-of-email-lets-have-fun-d/ I don’t know about you guys, but I’m sick to death of hearing people refer to themselves as “Social Media Guru” and “Social Media Expert”. Enough already. The fact is, that I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to actually claim those titles and have them be accurate. Our culture, ... http://www.mediacupcake.com/2009/07/experts-and-gurus-and-evangelists-oh-my/