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Tweet Here’s a look at what my Tweet Cloud looks like. What’s a Tweet Cloud? It’s a blob of  topics you tweet about, with bigger type indicating you talk about the topic more than those with smaller type. So what does this say about me? I don’t know, although it seems to indicate I’ve been [...]

Tweet I’m starting a new feature here at Save the Media, called “What the heck do you do on Twitter.” It’s an occasional feature, which in journalism-speak means I’ll do it when I have a chance. The idea is to showcase a variety of people who are using Twitter in creative ways. My emphasis, of [...]

Tweet A friend, Glenn Coin, has asked me to guest lecture about the ethics of social media for his Utica College journalism class, so I figured I’d blog my lesson plan to save time — and spread the message. I thought the ethics of social media is a timely topic, given the debate over social [...]

Tweet More than a year ago, Brian Stelter had a story in The New York Times about how the social media generation takes it upon themselves to pass on the news they feel is worthwhile. The story contained a seminal quote from an unidentified college student that has become iconic of the new journalism evolving [...]

Tweet Here are some short-takes of interesting stuff about journalism and newspapers that I found around the blogosphere: Social media rules: The buzz over how news organizations should use (or not use) social media surfaced last spring and then died down again only to come back with a vengeance in recent weeks. The blather gained [...]

Tweet David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times, recently visited my stomping grounds, Syracuse University, to talk about Twitter as part of a larger symposium on Cultural Diplomacy. I offered my newswriting students extra credit if they blogged about Pogue for Save the Media. One savvy student, Paul Kloster, took me up on [...]

Tweet Can Twitter be a tool of cultural diplomacy? That was the heady topic New York Times technology columnist David Pogue addressed Monday during a symposium at Syracuse University in Upstate New York. He was part of a panel trying to figure out how to transcend conflict through culture. Now, the way I understood it, [...]

Tweet I’m going to depart a bit from my normal rants on journalism today to share a bit of a person story that relates to how social media does — I believe — have the power to help people connect. I’m bringing this up because I know some people doubt that a sense of community [...]

Tweet Today, I’m turning over my blog to a guest poster, Amber Hensley, who writes about the online college. Amber freelances for online education Web sites and offers some tips for social media. She welcomes your feedback at AmberHensley1980@yahoo.com.  She’s writing about one of my favorite topics: Twitter and journalists. It’s a topic I’ve written [...]

Tweet If you’ve been on Twitter or pretty much anywhere online in the recent past , you’ve learned that Twitter has been playing a key role in allowing news about the contentious presidential election in Iran to be spread throughout the world. What’s notable is many doing the reporting are regular folks, not journalists, and [...]