Social Media is definitely a huge field with numerous possibilities to interact or getting started. However facebook somehow simply is the one network which is widely known as ‘the social network’ or even ‘the internet’. So it seemed quite reasonable for me to start my series ‘Using Social Media for Education‘ with facebook as first example. I simply assume that most of you know facebook and already are there (active [...]

Apparently youtube is testing a new layout of it’s website. And this time it’s not only a minor twist, it’s an actual change! I’ve noticed this on quite some profiles. However I still have some profiles where I still see the old layout. I have to say that I am quite happy with the change I see. While using youtube on an almost daily basis the layout and usability really [...]

Not much more to say! Google simply nailed it today with its tribute doodle to freddie mercury on his 65th birthday. awesome!   click on the doodle to play! – see the video what happens:

Currently I can see a lot of discussions about paid content going on in my timeline. Actually I thought this is quite an odd discussion (started years ago, stilborn child due to publisher’s attitudes). But somehow I started to think about it again and eventually started kind of a paid content site myself. It is not about paid or non-paid – it is about the value Most of the current [...]

AlJazeera – the immensly growing and weight gaining news network who especially became famous due to it’s good (and more objective) coverage of crisis areas, now launches a new social media community. A stream. The Stream! What is the Stream by AlJazeera? The Stream is a social media community with its own daily television programme created by the English Channel of Al Jazeera. The Stream uses the potential of social [...]

So you are reading a post called “why blogging stinks”. This means either way you are a blogger and you think I suck or you think about blogging and want to know the PROs and CONs. Regarding my headline you can imagine what my outcome might be…but let’s back up and start from the beginning. PROs of blogging When looking at blogging from a business side it has different aspects. [...]

You’ve got a lot of interests? You’re into music, social media, sports, travel and even more stuff like that?  Besides that you are a passionate blogger and want to spread the word about your achievements and experiences? Good! Do it! But hey….how? Do you talk about basically everything in your only presence? One blog for all topics? Or do you spread everything up? Different blogs for different topics. Serving several [...]

When there is a crisis people, governments, organisations, companies and even technical inventions show their real potential. Or their bad face. Right now we face another disastrous tragedy with the people in Japan suffering from a devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a terrible tsunami that not only killed people immediatly but also is responsible for critical problems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The radioactive pollution could even reach Tokyo [...]

Right now there are a lot clickjacking projects showing up on facebook. People try to steel clicks from you and your friends. In this case those are “like” clicks. And it appears that it is easier than ever to hijack “likes”. Clickjacking is for social media what spam was (or still is) for emails. But while almost everybody has a spamfilter (thx to the hosting companies – I bet most [...]

While working in Thailand I, obviously, can not stop my social media addiction. So I thought why not dive into the local social media atmosphere and check out local behaviour and usage. Having that said and not being able to write Thai this was – and still is – a huge adventure. But thanks to some of my students I was already able to get a glance at the common [...]

Yeah yeah yeah. It barely (ha!) ends! During the last days twitter as well as facebook rolled out some improvements (well, that’s how they call it) to their service. Both supply the user with pimped navigation bars. Facebook wants to be placed as your homebutton and asks you to take action. If you do so, you will see changes in your facebook timeline as soon as you open your browser. [...]

Yesterday I came across an article at the Daily MAil in the UK. They say social media sites like facebook and twitter should be blamed for low grades in school. They say students fall asleep during classes, have a low attention span and do not do enough homework because they spent to much time on facebook and twitter. Well, that’s what the daily mail, some weird study and most of [...]

This week we saw a quite funny (or childish as many people would say) phenomenon on facebook. Thousands of people changed their profile pictures into their childhood’s comic hero. Why? Well somebody said so….I don’t know for sure who started this whole thing and if he only wants to remember the good old childhood days, but without any doubt: it worked. Until today people are still changing their profile pictures [...]