Category: twitter

Updates from AACRAO Strategic Enrollment Management Conference

I’m in Anaheim, Calif., out of wildfire harm’s way and attending the AACRAO Strategic Enrollment Management Conference. A couple of other bloggers are here following the action, and recording better than I have (so far, all I’ve done is post some Twitter tweets here and there; collect ’em all at #SEM08).

But if you want more thorough coverage of the events, I suggest you check Toby Keeping’s blog, where Toby has posted a nice recap of Day 1 and a summary of this morning’s keynote session by Shirley Reed, president of South Texas College.

In addition, Kathy Kimpton, director of student success and registrar at Confederation College in Thunder Bay Ontario, is also blogging on the Academica Group website. Her first blog post also recaps day one of the conference.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, Karine Joly, Karlyn Morissette, and Tom Williams and Drew Dillon of InnoGage are busy blogging, tweeting and livestreaming from the American Marketing Association’s Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education (PDF). Follow along on Twitter also at #AMA08. I also will try to post links to these conference posts in the shared items sidebar to your left.

Twitter use No. 178: a tool for terrorists

Just when you get to thinking that Twitter is this safe, innocuous, inane little tool, along comes the government, telling you that Twitter could be used as a tool for terrorists.

ZOMG! Cover the windows with duct tape, Ma! They’re coming after us through teh innerwebs.

Deep breath.

OK, it’s only a draft Army report (PDF), but it gets worse:

“Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences,” the report said. …

The report describes hacktivists as politically motivated hackers.