Trying Twitter in the Classroom

A University of Texas professor uses Twitter in her classroom. A video worth watching.

http://kesmit3.blogspot.com/2009/04/twitter-experiment-bringing-twitter-to.html

Lessons from the Obama Campaign

How did the Obama campaign run so successfully? I have been asking myself this question. A recent article in The Nonprofit Quarterly is a good starting point. In a Successful Campaign: Lessons for Nonprofits by Paul Schmidtz discusses 5 best practices from the Obama campaign. We might all do well to look at our own work through this lens. Particularly interesting to me was the fact that online tools were so widely and impressively used, yet they are clearly not the whole ball of wax.

Brooke Bennett case

Still on the library angle, take a look at Jessamyn West's blog, www.librarian.net, if you haven't already. She is always a great source of information on topics related to libraries and technology.

Worth reading is Jessamyn's take on the Brooke Bennett tragedy as related to social networking sites: http://www.librarian.net/stax/2323/a-difficult-time-a-difficult-task/.