Twitter for Newbies – Will Spaetzel

Presented By: Will Spaetzel
Room: Wellington Room
Time: 3:15-3:45pm
Description: We’ll cover creating your account and getting your profile looking good; finding people to follow; posting your first tweets; and joining in on conversations. We will also look at desktop desktop applications for Twitter and how …

WordPress: An Introduction and Beyond – Patrick Gregory

Presented By: Patrick Gregory
Room: Wellington Room
Time: 1:00-1:30pm
Description: This free and powerful software can be used for blogging, web publishing and content management. This discussion will provide beginners with an introduction and advanced users with ideas and possibilities to take their existing knowledge …

Reach Out And Touch Someone – Daniele Rossi

Presented By: Daniele Rossi
Room: Oxford Room
Time: 11:15-11:45am
Description: You have the awesome ability to make positive changes to people’s lives all over the world through your podcast and other social media tools. Who says Twitter is a waste of time?

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Ethics in Social Media – Dave Fleet

Presented By: Dave Fleet
Room: Wellington Room
Time: 11:15-11:45am
Description: Ghost blogging. Astroturfing. Sock puppets. Wikipedia pages. Each of these new areas brings new ethical concerns and dilemmas. We’ll take a spin through these quandries to try to find an answer to them.

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Youth, Social Media, and the Web – Jonathan Kochis

Presented By: Jonathan Kochis
Room: Oxford Room
Time: 10:30-11:00am
Description: Are youth as engaged in social media as we think? What sort of limitations do they face from a web usability perspective? This research-based session will look at youth and their use of social media and …