Story-story: Social Media Storytelling

I used to play a story-telling game where you go around in a circle, and each person provides one sentence to make a story. The first person might provide the setting and theme, the next the introductory sentence, and so on. Sometimes the story never ended, sometimes...

Youth Making Mobile

Athgo just finished up its 5th Annual Global Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C., this week, and as the mission of this company is providing tools and opportunities for youth to become entrepreneurs, I figured it appropriate to write about some youth using technology...

Slacktivism 101

Slacktivism: noun; “The act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending effort to fix a problem”. From Urban Dictionary. With the advent of the Internet came an increase in the speed and ease with...

Social Media Jobs

With the evolution of the world of social media, there comes an evolution in the job market: new social media job titles are popping up daily, from social media manager to online community manager. For those of you social media junkies interested in getting paid to...

Social Media Terminology

Social media can be confusing, but more confusing than the sites themselves is the terminology that people throw around. Here are a handful of common and useful terms to help you navigate your social networks. AddThis: a service that you can add to your site (via HTML...