Social Media University, Global (SMUG)Suus Non Ut Difficile • Home of the SMUGglesiPhone First Impressions- September 16, 2008 I&8217;ve had my iPhone for a little over a week. It&8217;s quite a marvel, and what&8217;s even better is that it&8217;s a platform that can accept applications to extend its functionality. So far I&8217;ve installed the free Facebook, Twitterific and WordPress apps. I&8217;ve used the WordPress app to create this blog post. It&8217;s pretty elegant. I ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/16/iphone-first-impressions/ Evelyn Grace Borg and My First iPhone Blog Post- September 14, 2008 This post combines a couple of firsts. It is the first post I have done with the WordPress iPhone app. It is also the first visit of Evelyn to her grandparents&8217; house. Here&8217;s a picture of Evelyn with her Grandma Lisa.http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/13/evelyn-grace-borg-and-my-first-iphone... Facebook 130: Facebook Events- September 12, 2008 The blogging has been light for the past few days for two main reasons: First, were in the middle of volleyball season in Minnesota, and my daughter Rebekahs team had and all-day tournament last Saturday, a five-game victory Monday night (an away game that was 90 minutes from home) and had another road game last night. ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/12/facebook-130-facebook-events/ Groundswell Review in Social Media Snippets- September 9, 2008 SMUGgle Scott Meis, an Associate Professor in SMUG&8217;s Department of Political Science, has a couple of great posts reviewing Groundswell on his Social Media Snippets blog. Here are Part 1 and Part 2. I had heard one of the authors, Charlene Li, at a Web 2.0 Summit and posted my review of her presentation at that ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/08/groundswell-review-in-social-media-sn... Social Media 203: YouTube Video Annotations- September 4, 2008 Annotations are a great new beta feature available on YouTube. They enable you to add text to your videos, and to have that text linked to a specific action on YouTube. I first saw this in some of the BarelyPolitical videos, and thought perhaps this was a premium feature. It turns out it&8217;s available to all ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/04/social-media-203-youtube-video-annota... Facebook 103: Facebook Friend Etiquette- September 3, 2008 In the 1960s, when I was too young to be in on all the rebellion, the anti-war protesters had a slogan expressing wariness of all those who had begun their fourth decade: &8220;Never trust anyone over 30.&8221; For those of us who are now among the thirtysomethings and above, here&8217;s a general rule of Facebook etiquette ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/03/facebook-103-facebook-friend-etiquett... Macaca Moments- September 2, 2008 YouTube made its mark in political campaigns in 2006 with then-Sen. George Allen&8217;s &8220;macaca&8221; comment, which contributed to the Virginia Republican&8217;s eventual defeat. The widely dispersed ability to record audio or video and post it to the web may have a powerful effect this year, too. And having cited the most famous Republican example, here for ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/02/macaca-moments/ New Media Change How Political Conventions are Covered- September 2, 2008 Yesterday&8217;s New York Times, in an article by David Carr entitled &8220;In Denver, A Thousand Little Pieces,&8221; examined how the &8220;new media&8221; changed the coverage of the event: The numbers are changing the game. Old media have often (not always) regarded bloggers and their ilk as fleas on the dog. If newspapers and networks didnt break ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/01/democratic-convention-new-media/ Obama, McCain Both Have Girls- September 1, 2008 In his analysis of Barack Obama&8217;s use of social media in Social Media 302, Associate Professor Scott Meis called attention to a key difference between this campaign cycle and those of the past: In the past, a campaign team may have overreacted to a video such as Obama Girl or been concerned about not having a ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/09/01/obama-mccain-both-have-girls/ Social Media 302: Barack Obamas Social Media Strategy- September 1, 2008 In Social Media 301, we examined the McCain campaign&8217;s use of the Web, and invited an associate professor to provide a similar analysis for the Obama campaign. Scott Meis, a SMUGgle from Chicago, has risen to the challenge with Analyzing Barack Obama&8217;s Social Media Strategy. Here&8217;s an excerpt: Visit any of Obamas networking tools and youll ...http://social-media-university-global.org/2008/08/31/social-media-302-barack-obamas-social... |