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…youRon 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.

‘Tweets, Tubes and Feeds’ slide deck

Here’s the slide deck from my presentation today at the CASE District VI Conference in St. Louis. The title of the presentation was “Tweets, Tubes and Feeds: Hitting the Moving Target of Social Media.”