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Aug
05
2008

Goodness Gracious, Great Blogs of Fire!

2008blogsoffire3Kicking and Screaming’s Carter Smith takes a look at a recent study conducted by Rapleaf. This fascinating study compares ladies and gents’ social networking skills. “They predict that this gender gap on social networks (and increasingly in all of social media) will only widen with the next wave of innovation.” Visit Kicking and Screaming, and see who is “holding down the [social networking] fort,” guys or gals?

Neville Hobson has written a great post for you bloggers – and your readers – on NevilleHobson.com. Find out how to format blog content for an iPhone or other mobile device. After reading this post, and heeding Neville’s advice, your blog will load with improved formatting and faster for all those browsing on the go.

Are you familiar with the Blog Council’s Disclosure Best Practices Toolkit? Valeria Maltoni writes a great post on Conversation Agent about how this recently released, and vary valuable, disclosure toolkit was developed. Valeria also provides readers with some insight into the Blog Council.

Aaron Uhrmacher of Disruptology has some follow-up questions from his Mashable post on social media’s ROI for business. Aaron asks, “Who should be tasked with developing standards for social media measurement? What organizations are already working on it? How do you measure social media success for your company?” Find out from Aaron what other social media measuring issues businesses face, and offer your take.  

As an eLearning specialist, Mark Chrisman of Bad Square shares his opinion about new media’s place school curriculum. As stated in a Read Write Web post by Marshal Kirkpatrick, curriculum will change and adapt with technology. Adding his own ideas, Mark suggests that the future school will use “blog and video-log learning journals and portfolios” and other social tools.

One Response to “Goodness Gracious, Great Blogs of Fire!”

  • Aaron Uhrmacher Says:

    I always look forward to the “great blogs of fire” post. Thanks for linking to my thoughts on social media ROI. There’s been some great discussions on a topic that is still hotly debated.

    Also, Neville’s bit on how to optimize your blog posts for mobile devices is definitely worth a read. Good stuff!

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