A Virtual Hug

You can’t replace a hug with a virtual hug. And yet, when you can’t have a hug a virtual hug can mean everything.









You can’t replace a hug with a virtual hug. And yet, when you can’t have a hug a virtual hug can mean everything.
Back in May I posted a teaser regarding this idea I've had for a universal social media management solution. I came up with this idea while struggling with the fact that my Twitter feed is fundamentally unmanageable, and that this has a lot to do with the tension between our capacity to process information, and the steady push of social media to add more and more content to our streams. The concept is simple, although executing it may not be. As the title of this post (and the previous one) indicate, it is a concept that relies on three concentric circles.
I have a proposal for a universal social media management solution.
It relies on three concentric circles of contacts.
It is clever.
Maybe too clever.
In early August 2015 I gave a speed talk at the UW Distance Teaching & Learning conference on gamification and learning. The speed talk format is a bit different from the pecha kucha and other related formats in that there is no slide limit, and and time limit is ten minutes. That's just enough time to get yourself in trouble! Link for the slides after the jump.
I'm going to keep this short. When I logged into Google Reader today I received the now somewhat familiar message from Google that they're shutting down a service. The first thing I did was jump to the internet (via Google search typically enough) to find out what the deal was. Why was Google shutting down Reader? The answer was typical...