Category: ideas

Friday Five: weekend reading

Some interesting stuff for your weekend reading:

  1. Why Lady Gaga matters. Yeah, I know. Weird, huh? But Jessica Krywosa makes a compelling argument that we in higher ed have a lot to learn from this Fame Monster.
  2. Brad J. Ward’s squaredpeg post, Augmented reality in higher ed, show a great example of how one Australian university is using augmented reality [AR] in its student recruitment efforts. (Related from Mashable: Harvard Teams Up With Foursquare For Collegiate Check-Ins.)
  3. Who lives in our content village? Georgy Cohen goes medieval on us with this great post on her blog, Safe Digression.
  4. Introducing…you — Ron Bronson‘s thoughts on connecting with people in the social mediasphere.
  5. 20 tools for tracking social media marketing. Some practical stuff here for your online listening post.

Bring it on, 2010

Here’s a thought to help get your new year off on the right foot. It’s the January 1 entry from Larry Winget‘s book No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget.

I’m not always Winget’s biggest fan, but sometimes he puts things so simply and so bluntly that I just can’t ignore what he has to say. This is one of those times.

Last year is over. Be done with it. Good or bad, it’s over now. The past has passed.

Maybe you had some good things happen last year — I’m happy for you. Now it’s time to go out and make some new good things happen.

Maybe you had some bad things happen. Oh, well, welcome to life; better luck next time.

It’s a new year! Learn from your mistakes and move on!

He’s right. The past has passed. It’s a new year. Another chance. Let’s make the most of it.