From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Engage your audience with interactive presentations

by Susan Cato on September 11, 2009 · 0 comments

Looking for ways to better engage your audience at your live, in-person events or education sessions? How about polling your audience and discussing the results in real-time during the presentation? Use Poll Everywhere to engage your audience. Poll Everywhere enables people to answer via text (sms) message, twitter, or the web and can display results [...]

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More Twitter Tutorial: Twitter Networking Tips from TwiTip

by Susan Cato on September 10, 2009 · 0 comments

Another great resource (while I am on a Twitter-roll):  8 Twitter Networking Tips: From Online to In-the-Flesh is an excellent post on how to use Twitter for networking, shameless self-promotion, and doing good things. Combine this with what you just learned from Lowrider Librarian – and you will be a Twitter star.

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Best Twitter Tutorial Ever

by Susan Cato on September 10, 2009 · 1 comment

I recently stumbled upon the blog Lowrider Librarian (you gotta love that name) while doing some research about Twitter use within organizations.  In a recent post, Twitter for Organizations, he provides a very simple, clear tutorial about what Twitter is and how to use it. It is by far the best Twitter explanation I have [...]

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Text Messaging, Marketing, and Education

by Susan Cato on September 3, 2009 · 0 comments

My 17 year old son sent over 4,000 text messages last month. Call me old skool, but I cannot even fathom communicating that much via texts (I have trouble sending one in under 20 minutes). After a lengthy “talking to” it dawned on me that he doesn’t really ever actually talk on the phone anymore [...]

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Using tags for collecting, organizing and publishing content

by Susan Cato on September 2, 2009 · 0 comments

Strategic content tagging is one the most overlooked practices online today. Using them strategically not only helps others find your stuff, but it helps you repackage and repurpose content easily and in very targeted ways. If the basic concept of tagging confuses you – check out this “Tagging 101″ tutorial from ZDnet: Many people associate [...]

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Website Design / Usability Feedback on a Budget: Fivesecondtest.com

by Susan Cato on September 1, 2009 · 0 comments

I just came across a nifty site called fivesecondtest.com. The site is primarily for web designers/developers who need feedback and input on overall design and information architecture. According to them it is a  “simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.” I was on the site earlier [...]

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