Creative Commons explained by Lawrence Lessig

Larry Lessig’s talk at the iCommons Summit 08 gives you a nice overview of the history of Creative Commons:

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Tooltips for syncing slides and video

VCASMO is a pretty neat tool to sync video and slides. Just sayin’. VCASMO syncs videos fromm youtube or similar sources, and slideshows from slideshow.com. It’s a great little mashup, the results can be embedded either 440 pixels wide (as seen above) or 850 pixels wide:

Then there’s the Adobe Air based service Parleys, which looks […]

Presentation: “What the f**k is social media?”

Always a big fan of neat visualizations, particularly of complex topics, I found I really liked this 101 on social media by Marta Z. Kagan. Titled “What the f**k is social media“, Marta gives a quick, easy-to-understand rundown of the basic terminology paired with well-presented thoughts on why social media matter:

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Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education

Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, […]

Slideshow: Free Traffic. Social Media Marketing 101

At Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, Muhammad Saleem gave this great presentation on Social Media Marketing. It covers the basics as well as some advanced background info, like about the Digg algorithm.

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For further reading make sure to check out the references he kindly provided.
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