Twitter marketing. It’s a balance.

Once again I came across Atherton Bartelby’s FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter today.  It’s a good and easy read that I suspect many Twitter followers will empathise with the sentiments in the post.
I too especially dislike people overtly pushing their own products on Twitter and it [...]

Is 21st century learning being forced on us out of fear?

In one of my classes yesterday I experienced a different take “New Learning” which encompasses e-Learning 2.0 amongst other things, which for this purpose basically comprises social and collaborative technologies used to enable learning to take place.
We were shown several clips from YouTube, including the popular “Shift Happens“ which on the surface appeared to tell us [...]