Big thanks to the crew from GeekFest Dubai for the chance to speak last week. The crowd is super-switched-on and made for a great – and intimidating – group to present to that night. With so many people who really ‘get’ stuff you know that you have a great chance to really spark some interesting discussion and get some amazing input on your ideas. That said, the flip side is that this is also the group that will quickly see through your crap if you don’t bring your A-preso.
Thanks to BUiD for hosting me today. Here’s the deck from today for those there and those who wished they were. Disclaimer: it’s an ongoing learning artifact for me, meaning: work-in-progress.
Summary: Social Media” is a tool and a topic. It is a challenge and an opportunity. It has the strange ability to be all around us but remain elusive to some, and a mystery to many others. The subject of this interactive session will be to demystify social media and answer the question, “How can I use social media effectively to build and promote my own personal brand to start or grow my career through building a Personal Learning Environment – and do so in a way that is manageable and effective?”
Check the full post for the slide deck.
Drupal allows bloggers, small-business owners, corporations, communities, web developers and programmers to develop Internet environments that allow the integration, publishing and management of integrated content on a website. Because Drupal is open-source, there are a variety of add-ins that allow for a wide-range of application integrations. The guys at Funky Monkey (tools for teachers) have launched a social learning…