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Teaching teachers social media and technology

jeffcutler — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:12:40 -0400

It seems like each four minutes there's a new event happening in Boston proper or across the river where I sit typing right now.

These events range from knitting circles to test drive tweetups, and the thing these events have in common is that they're increasingly organized via social media tools.

So imagine my surprise when I found out this morning in one of the first sessions at the Social Technology and Education Conference at Harvard University, that this very conference was completely organized without any traditional marketing.

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On being banned by Twitter

adamg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:29:13 -0400

Susan Johnson was one of the people banned by mistake from Twitter over the weekend. She ponders what it means:

... emailed support begging them to restore my account and promising to be a better citizen of the Twittersphere (though in truth, I think I'm already a pretty good citizen). This morning, with just as much warning (meaning zilch), my account was mysteriously back to normal. There were no signs of a hacker, and Twitter didn't even bother to send me an automated email (Dear Twitter: I know you know how to send automated emails because I get several per day!).

I'm happy to have my account restored and I realize that Twitter is a free service (for now, at least), but I'm also a little miffed that they can suspend someone with zero warning and without even an automated courtesy email explaining why. ...

Another banned Twitterer, Tom O'Keefe, reports, in the comments here that without Twitter, he was forced to use a phone to call a friend to meet for some ice cream at JP Licks.

U.S. Attorney Deval Patrick? No.

Kaz — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:11:48 -0400

Today's New York Post Page Six gossip column stated that Deval Patrick was about to be offered the US Attorney position in MA amid sagging poll numbers as Governor. In a public Twitter mention similar to an exchange between the Governor and R.D. Sahl of NECN back in February, reporter Mike Sangalang at WBZ (@MikeSangWBZ) asked the Governor (@MassGovernor) about the validity of the rumor. About two hours later the Governor's press secretary, Kyle Sullivan, responded on Twitter that there was "absolutely no truth to this rumor".

Previously: News is made on Twitter?

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Boston_Fireman explains the Boston Fire Department Twitter Confusion

RightSedRed — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:43:11 -0400

As many of you saw yesterday, there was confusion on the Boston Fire Department Twitter feed. I am a Boston Firefighter, and not knowing that the city was intending to set up an official Twitter feed, I set one up to keep those interested informed of fire department happenings around the city. Upon learning that an official Twitter feed was set up, I shut mine down.

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Deval is all atwitter

Innismir — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:38:28 -0500

This floated across my Twitter stream this morning via @bradsaccount, who is the Director of New Media at the Massachusetts Governor's office:

Massachusetts Governor Patrick's Office has an official twitter feed now. Follow away! www.twitter.com/massgovernor

Interesting, to say the least.