Category: higher education

Blog Action Day is coming

Blog Action Day 2009 will be upon us later this week — Thursday, Oct. 15, to be precise — and the organization behind the annual event (Change.org) wants bloggers everywhere to post something on the topic of climate change.

I doubt I’ll post anything on that date, because I’ll be contributing to climate change in my own way, by driving 190 miles, round trip, to participate in a social media summit with Brad J. Ward, Michael Stoner, Liz Allen and some other good folks. But at least I’ll be driving in a hybrid, so I’ll be using only half as much fossil fuel for that trip than I would were I still driving my previous vehicle, which was powered 100 percent by gasoline and internal combustion. (As a fellow hybrid driver once said, “I used to emit smog. Now I emit smug.” Now I’m in that club.)

But, I do plan to post something — either right before Blog Action Day (if I get my act together) or immediately afterward.

Are any of you other higher ed bloggers planning to post something about global warming on Blog Action Day? Let me know.

Mark Greenfield’s Delicious bookmarks

Out there in the higher ed social media sphere, you’ll run in to all types of people. But when it comes to scouring the web for interesting, useful stuff, aggregating it and sharing it with the rest of us, you won’t find anyone better than Mark Greenfield.

Mark’s Delicious bookmarks are a fantastic resource. Connect with Mark’s Delicious feed, and you’ll connect with great resources about education, social media, marketing, etc., all reviewed and vetted by a seasoned marketing and web pro.

Mark is one of the few higher ed influentials out there who knows how to use social bookmarking as a connector to those of us who spend more time blogging and tweeting than bookmarking. He’s also one of the few true experts who manages to expand our knowledge base without inserting his ego into the mix. Thanks, Mark, for sharing all this great information in a straightforward, spin-free manner. We could use a lot more of that these days.

(Follow Mark on Twitter — @markgr — to get his latest finds.)