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…to my beautiful little muffins. Dear darling chickens. It is the most wonderful time of the year. You see, in October the ScienceBloggers participate in the DonorsChoose Social Media Challenge. DonorsChoose is an organization that allows teachers to write proposals to fund classroom projects and donors to choose which projects to fund. Last year around […]

Dawkins begins his case for evolution in the same place as Darwin himself: by discussing the myriad successes of plant and animal breeders. Whereas Darwin was very taken with pigeons, however, Dawkins prefers dogs, cabbages and cattle. The chapter opens with a brief discussion of essentialism in biology, and how evolution shows it to be […]

Part of my job as the Manager of Sports Content is to make sure all the sports staffers at KCRG and The Gazette are using social media to connect with our audience and drive traffic to our sites. That means blogging and using Facebook and Twitter.

As promised, Google Wave invites are going out today, allowing roughly 100,000 people to try out the somewhat experimental collaboration software. Google Wave combines e-mail, messaging, blogging and multimedia into one massive communication tool. It’s creators have dubbed it a re-invention of e-mail, but it’s not really clear yet how the Web platform will be […]

A poll of 1,001 American adults found they 90 percent of them think the public should be better informed about emerging technologies, reports Scientific Blogging . About 22 percent of them had heard of synthetic biology, up from nine percent last year, adds Science Progress . However, the more people learned about the field, the […]

Clifton Springs Chamber of Commerce has beefed up its marketing with blogging.

WOBURN, Mass. — Bridgeline Software, Inc., , a developer of SaaS-based web application management software and award-winning interactive business technology solutions, announced today the release of iAPPS v2.8, which includes a series of improvements principally focused on enhancing the Search Engine Optimization and social networking capabilities of iAPPS Content Manager, Bridgeline’s flagship …

Sometimes 140 characters just aren’t enough. Fish With Feet, an Egg Harbor Township-based marketing and public relations company, has organized what’s believed to be the area’s first Tweetup - a meet-up for users of the social networking and blogging Web site Twitter.

Sure, the Internet has offered a once-unavailable means through which one can gain unlimited information and resources, communicate on a global level, and even shop and play games without leaving the couch. But this unsupervised social network comes …

Tech and media research firm Interpret has released data showing that Twitter users are twice as likely to engage with brands than users of other social networks. That’s great news for advertisers, but has anyone asked Tweeters if they want ads on the micro-blogging platform?