Using social media

So everyone says “Twitter, “Twitter”, “Twitter” recently for social media stories, but how do you use them? These are what I use: Mixi (SNS/J): Japanese friendsFacebook (SNS/E): Other friends + some Japanese friendsLinkedIn (SNS/E): Career networkingSeminar SNS (SNS/J): Members of the seminar at UniUK Alumni Network (SNS/J): Importing blog onlyTwitter (Micro-blog/E&J): Small story and real-time storyBlog (Blog/E&J,separated): Bigger story and self-logBooklog(Book blog/J): Not oftenDelicious (Bookmark/E&J): Partially sharingLast.fm (Music SNS/E&J): Auto-feeding from iTunes I wish I could send Twitter feeds to all SNS at the same time, but Tweetdeck that I use now is only compatible with English, which means is […]

Course Start

The course started from last Monday.  The first week was induction…introduction of the course,  introducing each other, tour of the school etc… Reading the syllabus, I felt sure that I would never get bored for the year. Every lecture looks interesting, they are exactly what I wanted to study  (= skills and information I need). The schedule is online,  and can check it lively and it looks we can use course wiki as well. Outside the school, the group on facebook was created and everyone is online! Ummm…the world is getting so convenient now…. The presentation each member gave using website contents was so interesting as […]

iThink

There is an appli named “iThink” on Facebook. You input your opinions (eg. “Japanese food is the best in the world” etc.) and others agree or disagree with them, and the appli shows how many people agree with you or the compatibility with your friends. Well, the detail doesn’t matter, anyway I wrote “Football is the most exciting sport.” Then, people who agreed were 15% only. What a serious feeling of defeat. Today, I found it went up to 19%. So 1 person out of 5…ok…then…