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spleeness says...

Mashable's Social Media Guide for small businesses:
http://mashable.com/2009/12/04/small-business-guide/

Includes:
- Social Media 101: How to Avoid Alienating Your Customers
- Why Should Traditional Businesses Care about Social Media?
- 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs
- Putting Social Media in Real Life Context for SMBs
- Why Your Business Needs to Be on Facebook
- Making Social Media a Tool, Not a Distraction
- How to Use Twitter Hashtags for Business
- 5 Mistakes to Never Make on Twitter
- How SMBs Can Capitalize on the Twitter Woes of the Fortune 100
- 5 Small Businesses Successfully Using Social Media
- How to Build Your Company’s Profile on LinkedIn
- 3 Great Social Media Policies to Steal From
- 5 Secrets From Social Media Insiders
- Social Media: What’s Next

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Terr says...

CSR Minute Special Report: First Climate, a Company Profile


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Zach says...

10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners

Every now and then, we like to remind readers of the audio/video resources that Open Culture makes available to lifelong learners. These collections are all free, and can be downloaded to your computers and mp3 players. When you add it all together, you will find thousands of hours of free educational content here from quality sources.
  • Free Audio Books:  This page contains a vast number of free audio books, including many classic works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Kafka, Shakespeare, Orwell and much more. You can download them all straight to your computer or mp3 player, then listen any time. (On a related note, you might want to see our list of Life-Changing Books, according to our readers.)
  • Free Courses from Major Universities: This list brings together over 250 free courses from leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford and beyond. Theses full-fledged courses range across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including computer science. The page is a gold mine for lifelong learners.
  • Free Foreign Language Lessons: Centralized in one place are free lessons that will teach you 37 languages. Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, English, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, even Finnish and Esperanto — they’re all free and portable.
  • Ideas & Culture Programs/Podcasts:  In this one collection, we have gathered together some of the most intellectually stimulating programs available via podcast. The programs will keep you thinking and culturally up-to-date, as will our collection of science podcasts. All can be downloaded straight to your mp3 player.
  • The Best Intelligent Video Sites: Where can you go to find intelligent video? We have listed 46 web sites that feature a steady stream of intelligent content: documentaries, lectures, educational programming and much more.
  • Smart YouTube Collections: It’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff on YouTube. But we have done it. Here you will find upwards of 100 YouTube channels that regularly serve up smart video content.
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  • Classical Music and Jazz: This collection features free music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Yo Yo Ma and more. And if you care to scroll down, you will also find a plentiful list of jazz podcasts.
  • Open Culture iPhone App: A little something special for iPhone users. When you download our free iPhone app, you can take with you, wherever you go, many of the items listed above. Free Audio Books, Free University Courses, Free Language Lessons, Music and Science Podcasts, etc. Give it a try and tell a friend. Note, that per Apple’s requirements, you will need access to Wi-Fi.

 

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As a teacher, it is important to make use of our resources and in a TEFL classroom there are different 'technological' resources that teachers can consider using in the classroom:

1) Twitter - this is a good tool to stay in touch with your students and this tool also helps students to write in shorter and more concise sentences.

2) Posterous - having posterous is a good way to keep your students informed on what is going on and is a good place to post announcements and important information for the class.  Students can also comment and read other comments from their classmates.

3) YouTube - There are a variety of clips that teachers can find on YouTube to help students with learning English.  A classic example that is used in most classes is the clip from My Fair Lady.  YouTube is also a good way to show snippets from American movies or dramas.

4) Song/Podcasts - Using music is a great way for students to learn English.  Students can choose songs from singers that they like and teachers can teach English through the lyrics.  Podcasts are also a good tool for students to hear American radio shows.

All of the resources mentioned above, are free as long as you have access to the internet.  I think all these resources are good ways to help students become more engaged in the class.

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dannybrown says...

This is an absolutely awesome resource list from Valeria Maltoni (@ConversationAgent) that you should check out immediately if you've lost your job.

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spleeness says...

Here listed are top blogs for social media updates: http://www.instantshift.com/2009/12/01/30-top-blogs-for-social-media-updates/

 

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Andy says...

Projects often come with hourly wage projections for workers, but converting that to see an annualized figure is a bit cumbersome. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission provides a very simple, easy-to-use wage calculator. Combine this information with real “living wage” data for your community, and you’re armed with another layer of analysis to explore the likely impacts of a project on your community.

 

 

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jacklucky says...

ChartsBin meets a growing collection of experiments, performed with free software, playing with the creation of interactive charts and thematic maps based on statistical tables. For example, here are some samples.

Historical Population of World, 1 AD to Future

Historical Population of World, 1 AD to Future

Worldwide Driving Orientation by Country

Worldwide Driving Orientation by Country

Average Age at first sex by Country

Average Age at first sex by Country

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Adobe Connect resources,
Cribbed from Paul Zenke of UW-Madison's DoIT
(http://comets.wisc.edu/event/media-shops-presentation-adobe-connect)

DoIT TechStore - Adobe Connect
http://techstore.doit.wisc.edu/product.asp?login=D&itemnum=C53980

Penn State Adobe Connect Community Hub (video tutorials, documents)
http://meeting.psu.edu/

Adobe Connect - Video Tutorials
https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=12376

Rochester Institute of Technology - Exemplar User Scenarios
http://online.rit.edu/faculty/support/connect/examples

Rochester Institute of Technology - Effective Practices
http://online.rit.edu/faculty/support/connect/best_practices

Tips and FAQ (message board)
http://meeting.psu.edu/forum/tips

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Andy says...

 

There are some great, public (read: free) resources for analyzing economic data, though many times you have to be willing to wade through and reformat information for presentation purposes. The US Census Bureau collects and analyzes a mountain of useful data.

 "LED on the Map" (for the curious, that stands for Longitudinal Employer-household Dynamics)

 - Provides a map-based view of where people live and work, with several additional layers of analysis on wages, industry, and commuting patterns.

 

 - Data lags a bit - the current most-recent analysis only covers through 2006 so the current economic situation is not reflected.

 

Here's an example: 

 

This map shows where workers earning $1200 per month or less live who are employed in Tulsa County.  Remember - this is up through the end of 2006.

 

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