Over the last couple of years, Twitter has skyrocketed to the forefront of social media, and, more importantly, as a means of how many communicate. And, following in the footsteps of text messaging, and passing notes before that, Twitter is now a new way for students to communicate in the classroom. Many teachers may find […]
This year with so many panels and events going on simultaneously, it is easy to overlook or miss a panel of great value/importance. On Monday March 12th, “The iPad: The Second Coming of the CD-ROM” is a SXSWi panel any digital user or producer should not miss. When the CD-ROM became mainstreamed in 1985, the […]
This will be the third year that Dr. Hans Ibold (@hanspi) has traveled to SXSW Interactive with a group of students from Indiana University. In helping them prep for the event, I spent a little time on Skype providing some advice. They had some great questions and observations. I look forward to meeting them all […]
The SXSW Interactive panel “Mother Goose Got Punked” brings the top creative minds in the nonprofit community to teach organizations how they can implement visual storytelling to engage supporters.
Once considered “unhip” and “nerdy”, gaming has soared on the gust of innovation created by the ever-expanding web 2.0 bubble. “Gaming is similar to writing, in that both are private, creative activities very different to watching films or reading books, which involve less input,” says Play-write Lucy Prebble in a Telegraph article by Nick Collins. […]
The role of social media has played an integral part all around the world, including Colombia. Partly due to drug trafficking, Columbia has been in a state of armed conflict since the 60’s, but since the 80’s the violence from drug trafficking has become much worse. In “Social Media in Colombia: An Agent for Change,” […]
Atlanta-based app maker highlighted at SXSW Accelerator Imagine arriving at your local airport and knowing that the short-term parking is full, or that the security lines are miraculously short at the other terminal entrance. What if you discovered that a friend or colleague was on your flight? Atlanta-based start-up Zamp envisions this reality where […]