August 2011
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Welcome to #Rotoloclass!
Hello and welcome to the #Rotoloclass blog! I’m your TA, @AlyssaHenry. It’s going to be an exciting semester, and there’s so much to look forward to… We’ll be covering all kinds of topics, including: Twitter, location-based services, blogging, ROI, building an online presence as a brand, social media #fails, privacy, viral videos and more! Professor Rotolo has...
Aug 29th
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Location-Based Social Media - sonar
Sonar is a relatively new free iPhone application that “helps you understand the people around you.”  What sonar does is that is analyzes how you are connected to the people around you or at the same place as you are.  What the application then does is access publicly available data from Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare and compiles that information to build a picture of the people around you....
Aug 13th
Twitter Chat - Storify
August 10 Class Twitter Chat using Storify. Please use the link below. http://storify.com/weastosn/twitter-chat-3
Aug 12th
Living Cheaply with LivingSocial and Groupon
What does LivingSocial do? LivingSocial offers users to find deals nearby where they live.  Customers are able to see different deals every day.  Users can choose to create an account or not, and once they put their location in they are given a daily deal.  Users can also choose different types of deals other than the daily deal such as “escapes”, “families”, or “adventures.”  On the opposite...
Aug 2nd
Content Curation with Storify
We have so many real-time streams now, we’re all drowning. So the idea of Storify is to pick out the most important pieces, amplify them and give them context.” —Storify founder Burt Herman Why do we need content curation? Content curators select small streams of information from the Web’s churning river and present and preserve them as stories that readers can enjoy without...
Aug 1st
Instagram vs. Hipstamatic
Instagram Instagram describes itself as providing “Fast and beautiful photo sharing for your iPhone.”  The creators of Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, created Instagram  as a way to instantly share pictures, in much the same way that the Polaroid cameras of years past provided a quick way to develop pictures. Don’t want to share your pictures?  Instagram allows you to mark your...
Aug 1st