Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

What Vendors Need to Know about Marketing to Educators

Posted on September 14th, 2011

Back-to-school pop quiz: where do most educators go when they need information on a new product? a. Educational publications b. The teachers’ lounge c. Vendor websites d. None of the above Ready…pencils down! If you answered D, congratulations! You’re starting the school year off with an A+. Extra credit point: If not...

Paper.li: Read Twitter and Facebook as a Daily Newspaper

Posted on January 5th, 2011

Paper.li is a Swiss website that presents Twitter- and Facebook-linked content in an easy-to-read, newspaper-style format. Once a day, Paper.li aggregates the top news on these popular social networking sites, encompassing just about any topic you can imagine. Head to the website and see all of the cataloged news for yourself; it’s...

Social Media Success Summit – Part One

Posted on July 26th, 2010

In May, I was an online participant in the 2010 Social Media Success Summit (#smss10). Over the course of the Summit, I sat in on sessions that covered topics useful for organizations at every stage of social media use. I’ll summarize some of these in four posts that address beginners (using tools...

Survey Update: Twitter Use in K-12 Education

Posted on April 8th, 2010

Last month I shared the results of a survey CB&A conducted in conjunction with the CoSN Conference 2010.  To help inform a roundtable discussion that took place during the conference, CB&A surveyed educators on the CoSN pre-registration list and analyzed replies from more than 50 respondents.  The survey explored two aspects of...

All a ‘Twit About Twitter in Schools

Posted on March 9th, 2010

Twitter’s user base grew to more than 75 million subscribers in 2009, with its number of unique visitors increasing by 1,382% from 2008. Through its explosive growth and mainstream acceptance over the past two years, Twitter now offers schools and districts the opportunity to reach stakeholders via a new, preferred communications method....

Survey Results: Twitter Use in K-12 Education

Posted on March 8th, 2010

Every year CB&A conducts a Birds-of-a-Feather Roundtable during the annual CoSN conference. For those of you unfamiliar with CoSN, it’s a professional organization for school district technology leaders. The roundtable sessions are designed to give participants the opportunity to connect with their peers and industry experts to discuss current issues, hot topics...

Educators’ Use of Social Networking and Content-Sharing Tools

Posted on November 17th, 2009

  We had the opportunity to participate in a Webinar hosted by MMS Education, edWeb.net and MCH, Inc. on Nov. 4, 2009, where they discussed the findings of their new Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking. The survey was distributed to 82,000 teachers, librarians/media specialists and principals, with a 1.6 percent...

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