Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Robert
At the Technical Communication Summit this past week in Philly, Phylise Banner and I decided to do something a little different. We found out that a surprising number of Technical Communicators didn’t know about the options out there in Social Media and Social Networking. Most of them have never even heard of twitter before. Since […]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Robert
This past Monday, Robert “Bawb” Varley passed away unexpectedly in his Orlando, Florida home. He wasn’t feeling well, so he laid down to take a nap. Bawb loved his naps. His wife found him a few hours later.
I’ve never actually met Bob Varley, never interacted with him online, and doubt that he even knew I […]
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Robert
Last week was not conducive to blogging, so I took a bit of time off. This week I’m coming back strong with another episode of Tweet Files! My guest this week is Shannon, better known as Monty or akaMonty on Twitter.
Use this link to download it for later.
Go to Monty’s blog!
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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Robert
Episode 1 was so much fun to do, I decided to do episode 2!
This week’s interview is with Meg Fowler (megfowler on Twitter.) Meg is an amazing writer and blogger who just happens to be from Canada. Listen to the podcast and go read her blog.
In this episode, we get to know a little bit […]
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Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Robert
Earlier this month, I presented a short show-and-tell session about new sites and trends in Social Media at the chapter meeting for the Atlanta Society for Technical Communication. I posted about this before, and was very excited about bringing these sites to light within our chapter of the STC. After the presentation, I promised to […]
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Robert
I am not a professional minister. I did not go to a seminary, and I have not been around great Christian thinkers all of my life. I grew up Baptist, but I never really understood or cared about what I was being forced to learn. I went through college making fun of Christians and organized […]
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Posted on February 9th, 2008 by Robert
This weekend, I attended SoCon08. This was a Social Media and Networking conference that was held at Kennesaw State University, attended by around 250 people from all around the Southeast region. I used Cover It Live to live blog the opening session and the two breakout sessions I attended. Fell free to click through and […]
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Robert
CoverItLive is the liveblogging platform/software that I used to stream, record, and publish updates and photos during the birth of our fourth child. You can see the end result in this post: Liveblogging Baby #4. I promised a review of the software and interface, and here it is. I apologize that it took me this […]
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Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Robert
At this month’s STC Atlanta Chapter meeting, I am going to present a quick (15 min) presentation on newest trends andnewest tools in the Social Media and Social Networking arenas. I hope to do a larger presentation later, but for now, I think just to let our members know what is out there could spark […]
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