Dear friends I wish you all a Blessed Christmas with peace in your soul and happiness in your heart . May the coming year to make all your dreams come true and and all your wishes to be fulfield . Today when I adorned for Santa Claus this online Christmas Tree with my favorite 20 Social Media Curation Tools I invite you to sit near fireplace and listening carols with me and my family . imikimi - sharing creativity
I really want to decribe my top 20 soial media curation tools, but the Birth of Son of God is near the door and I develop and participated in many Christmas activities .Here you can see THE DIGITAL STORY OF THE NATIVITY
listen beautiful Carols with soloists from Timisoara and my students .
I hope you liked 1st Social Media Curation Christmas Tree made for PLN http://bitly.com/LucianeCuratorwishyouMerryChristmas Also I invite you to read my last blog from yestarday post and leave your feed-back : Top 10 social media curation tools to unleash the power of your ipad http://bitly.com/Top10iPadCurationedapps . See you all on twitter https://twitter.com/web20education and join and collaborate in 1st Social Media Curation Google+ Community https://plus.google.com/communities/100188349857613823793 I want to write this post today, 11 December 2012 when I celebrate 3 years since @web20education ( my Social Media, now Curation Restart Education Project ) joined twitter and now I am verry happy to collaborate with teachers worldwide and to be followed by 5360 people . In the same time I will begin again to tweet more related to new technologies ( I want to share daily on twitter my favorite 10 startup edtools or apps for web or for Ipad and for this reason I think you should follow me :) https://twitter.com/web20education ) . Also I will begin to use again my personal twitter account https://twitter.com/LucianeCurator/ . I make also my presentation on GlogsterEDU http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/lucian-father-social-media-curator-teacher-and-researcher/ and I make a Curation community in Google Plus where social media addicted teachers who want to became social media curators can join free https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100188349857613823793 Like I write in my previous posts everyone want to make a killer presentation , or want to make social media online cards here but most of us search for a social media tools to make heard our social media presence and for this reason I will describe here my top 10 ten tools to make a professional online business card . Please tell me what tool do you like more and why or propose other tools leaving a comment,feed-back to blog posts. .
1. GlogsterEDU is the best edtool and for this reason I chose it my number 1 social media tool to brand myself . I am verry proud to be also 1st Romanian teacher selected GlogsterEDU ambassador who was invited by GlogsterEDU staff to participate at Intel Teach Essentials course in Prague http://bit.ly/prgessentials Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. Glogster EDU empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS-online multimedia posters - with text, photos,videos,graphics,sounds,drawings,data attachments and more
XeeMe is the fastest growing Social Presence Management software company. A Social Presence is the sum of all social profiles and accounts of an individual or brand. Since all social media activities are initiated from, or pointing back to that social presence, it is an individual's or brand's most important asset. A "XeeMe" lets users or brands organize their entire social presence, discover new networks and people and grow their presence and influence.XeeMe has the most comprehensive social presence analytics and the largest number of supported networks. XeeGraph provides a unique way to benchmark presence value and network relevance. XeeMe is free and will remain to be free. Additional business features or applications are provided as subscription service. The XeeMe team and its trained and authorized business partners are providing professional social presence building and customization consulting services.
3.Origin.al is a revolutionary new way to share your work. Origin.al shows projects and examples, is real-time and highly social, and recognizes that reputation, not affiliation, is now the key driver of a person's success.
4. Vizify helps you transform all those interesting impressions you make online into one definitive, multidimensional, graphical biography, without ever asking you to face a blank screen. It's the easiest, most sophisticated tool for showing the best of you online,all in one place https://www.vizify.com/lucianecurator Last features Background Images: Add more personality to your overview page. Analytics: See how many people have viewed your bio or clicked your visual email signature. Better Mobile: Zippier and prettier! As more and more web surfing is going mobile, we’ll happy to report your bio will look awesome on iPhone (including 5) and Android.
5. Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internetIdeal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in bettween. Follow me on http://flavors.me/LucianeCurator/
6. About.me is a free service that lets you create a beautiful one-page website that’s all about you and your interests. Upload a photo, write a short bio, and add your favorite social networks to show the world the big picture of you.A custom profile and a personal analytics dashboard http://about.me/web20education
7. Connect.me startup tool build a layer of trust for the social web
Connect.Me helps people and businesses get the most out of their social reputation.Connect.Me is the first app of the Respect Network, a P2P cloud network that puts users back in control of their digital identities, reputation, and data.When users join Connect.Me, they are protected by our ground-breaking Trust Framework and award winning data privacy policy. Follow me https://connect.me/LucianeCurator
8. Geeklist is a startup tool built by developers, for developers... make geeks lives better every day.Geeklist is a vibrant platform for geeks to discover, connect and share the great work they have done. Developers worldwide, and their work, are nowhere to be found or discovered. Geeklist provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. A place to share their resources and links with each other, get High Fived, earn GeekCred, build their own connections and join in Geek communities, all in a completely integrated social manner.In Geeklist, companies get to share the great achievements of their engineering teams to a targeted community of developers. People who really understand and appreciate the hard work that went into building the company and products. Often influencers in their own companies, they get to bond and form a relationship with companies they love. What’s more, companies get tools to communicate with developers who wish to be contacted or hired. Follow https://geekli.st/web20education
9. Zerply is startup tool who offer you a simple professional network focusing on your experience and talent while presenting you in the best possible way. Features : Personal - Zerply helps to provide a more full picture of who you are as a professional, beyond your occupation title or job description.Simple - Zerply works the way you expect it to, no hidden settings, no Googling questions, we endeavour to keep things simple. Open - In an effort to build new connections we keep an open network where clients, employers and professionals can all meet free of restrictions. Free - Zerply believe that access and interaction in this day and age should be free, that’s why all our core features are free of charge. Follow http://zerply.com/LucianeCurator
10 . Workface is a leading-edge communication & relationship tool for talking to existing customers (and the new customers you want to create) across the Internet.Features Live Chat Software... Reinvented!Workface provides enterprise-level, on-demand live text, audio and video chat that can easily be installed on your website, social media, and beyond. It’s the alter ego of all that impersonal, old-fashioned live chat software. Workface helps you to be there, ready to engage unknown buyers at the most crucial moment—when they’re considering your products and services. Engage the social business way—personally, directly, immediately. Customers have had it with nameless, faceless, call center chat and wait times in queues. If you aren’t ready to talk to the customer now... they’re gone! With Workface, your customers and prospects connect with you one-on-one when and where they are ready: in real-time. Your customers can find and click-to-connect with whomever they want as their next step in the buying process. Anonymously if they prefer.Social customers want control. Give it to them. Social business is about authenticity, immediacy and relevance. People don’t want to connect with fictitious “live person Sarah”. Someone they can size-up before they decide to connect one-on-one. They want access to the person who’s really other side of the live chat button. So give customers access. Let them size you up, with Workface. http://workface.com/e/dumacornellucian
Today I plan to write about top 10 social media tools to brand your name, but I saw today that Socl just got better and here are the new features on http://www.so.cl/#/profile/Duma-Cornel-Lucian and I invite you to add a comment if you think is better curation tool than http://pinterest.com/LucianeCurator/ for education .. What is Socl? Socl — pronounced social — allows you to express and share your ideas through rich post collages comprised of images, links, captions and videos.Socl is a research project from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs and began as an experiment in social search targeted at students for the purpose of learning. Following the lead of the Socl community, Socl has since evolved to be a service where people connect over shared interests expressed through beautiful posts that take only seconds to create. Last features launched today by So.cl Here are a few changes you’ll notice right away… Posts. Viewing the rapid feed on Socl is faster and, well, just better. The home screen is all about the beautiful posts you create (often in just seconds, using the new post creator!). You can choose to see the posts two-columned or three, so it’s less likely you’ll miss out on anything. And now you can see the posts even if you are not signed in or are new to Socl. Interests. The crowd-sourced interest gallery is more discoverable, helping you socialize with like-minded people over topics you care about. People/Me. People finding and following can be done via posts, the new people gallery, or from a person’s page. Everyone on Socl has an updated page where profile information, posts, interests, people and parties can be viewed together in one place. Check out your “me page” today, or if you’re new to Socl, sign in and we’ll create a page for you. Parties. Create a playlist and watch videos with others in Socl, and chat together as you watch.
In Socl, how do I create a rich post?Socl makes it easy to create a beautiful post you’re proud to share. Simply use the post creator to find interesting images, links and videos on the web and let the post creator do the rest – your selections will be automatically assembled into a compelling collage in just seconds. What is a riff in Socl? A riff in Socl is a visual response to a post, usually extending the original post in some manner thereby providing a way to continue a conversation visually. All the posts in a riff are viewable together using view riffs – the post that inspires the riff is clearly marked and attribution is also given to the riff post as well. What are Interests in Socl? Socl Interests are public groups organized around post content.
Socl makes it easy to connect with people from all over the world who share your interests – whatever they may be. Socl Interests are dynamic and crowd-sourced so the possibilities are virtually limitless. Are you a Social Media Curation addicted? If so, visit the CURATION Interest to see posts on food and connect with people who share your passion. Is football a thing? Create your own post about football, tag it, and discuss it with other football fans on Socl. From food to football; tech to tectonics – you’ll likely find the topic on Socl and enjoy connecting with like-minded people. Who are the People on Socl? How do I find my friends?
Socl is an open social network where people connect around posts and choose to follow people, interests, or both. While you may discover some of your Facebook friends on Socl, you will more likely discover new people or topics you’d like to follow. Of course, you can invite your friends to join you on Socl by sharing posts to Facebook, Twitter or email or simply by sending them an invitation. If you choose to sign in using Facebook, your Facebook friends on Socl will also be easily visible from your People View on your Me Page. What is the Me Page?
Every Socl user has a Me Page which is created once you’ve signed in on Socl using your Facebook or Microsoft account.
From your Me Page, you can see a feed of all the posts you’ve created or interacted with or, if you prefer, you can see your feed organized by conversation. From Me, you can: See all the posts you have created Manage the Interests you follow Manage the People you follow See the video parties you have created Manage settings for Socl such as profile information (picture and bio), preferences for language and notifications and more. Why doesn't my photo appear when signing in with my Microsoft Account?
For privacy reasons, your Microsoft Account photo is not available for Socl to use. In order to have a profile photo, update your Socl settings to link to profile picture available on the internet (such as a Skydrive public folder). What is a Video Party?
A Video Party is a shared video experience on Socl. Socl lets you search and quickly assemble a list of videos to view and chat about together, in real time if you like. You can create your own party, or join an existing party created by another person. How does Socl work?
The Socl post creation experience is powered by Bing; we use the public Bing APIs to display search results. When people want to express themselves on Socl, they look for great content on the web and share the results in the form of a post collage. These results can be web pages, images, or videos found through Bing or found while simply browsing the web and shared with the Socl community (the Socl bookmarklet makes this easy to do). Posts can be tagged to Socl Interests to aid discovery and discussion. What is the Socl bookmarklet and how do I use it?
The Socl bookmarklet provides an easy way to share a link on the web to Socl. Click here to add the Socl bookmarklet to your browser. Is Socl data public?
Public data enables new types of research and experimentation, and is a primary goal for Socl. Your post and any other data you post to Socl may be viewed by all other Socl users. In addition, data publicly posted on Socl can be used by other entities and individuals.
For more information please read our Privacy Statement. Can I delete my data in Socl?
Yes. You have options ranging from deleting a single item, comment, or post, to deleting all your history, or your entire account. Deleted data may however have been included in data sets shared with third parties; deletion of your data from Socl will not delete entries from such data sets. For more information please read our Privacy Statement. Can anyone join Socl? Does it cost anything?
Anyone can join Socl; Socl is free. Does my Socl data appear on Facebook?
No, not unless you choose to share to Facebook.
Socl uses two services for authentication, or sign in: the Microsoft account or Facebook.
If you choose to use Facebook authentication – which means you use your Facebook account to sign in – your name and profile picture from Facebook will appear in Socl by default.
By default we do not post any content from Socl into your Facebook stream. If you choose, you can post content to Facebook using the share to Facebook feature in Socl. Does Socl compete with social networking and search sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Bing, or Google?
No, Socl is an experimental research project with a minimal set of features that combine social networking and search for the purpose of enabling people to express and share ideas through rich visual collages, organized by interests. What are the other social experiments that you are engaged in?
Other ongoing experiments include: Kodu: teaches kids programming and creativity on the XBox and PC. Montage: creates a visual album of the web on the topics you care about. Docs: lets you discover, create and share documents with your friends, coworkers, and classmates on Facebook. or see more projects from FUSE Labs.
These projects are experiments from Microsoft Research, and like other research projects, you should not expect that these projects will be supported by a Microsoft product team.
I am honored to be nominalized in Edublog Awards 2012 in 3 categories and if you like what I do in social media world vote me here http://edublogawards.com/vote-here/ once a day .
I am honored to be nominalized in Edublog Awards 2012 in 3 categories and if you like what I do in social media world vote me here http://edublogawards.com/vote-here/ once a day . I must told you that in december I prepair in this blog next posts weekly : Top 10 social media curation tools , Top 10 startup curation tools, Top 10 cloud edtools and more and in this way I hope next year this blog will be in best edtech / resource sharing blogs :)
Thank you dear friends who joined my free #globaled12 session : ICT4eTwinners Project, Smile Project and top 10 tools to develop a PLN . I am happy because were 31 attendes, but for everybody who can't participate click here or on next photo to see recordings and also here is my presentation .
I had the pleasure to be involved in SMILE Project managed by European Schoolnet and for thie reason I launch ICT4eTwinners ( Innovation, Curation, Teach4eTwinners Project )
I was a online presenter for the first time in Global Education Conference in 2010 http://bitly.com/globaled10presenter and now I am happy because my seession was accepted again :) My presentation is scheduled Friday 8 p.m Bucharest time here and everyone is welcome to participate and add feed-back . If you want to join and obtain the link to my session please join our facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/list#!/
events/397382353665893/ follow @LucianeCurator and add your comments and feed-back . I must told you that afer the session I will post here my presentation so stay tune :)
A FREE ONLINE EXTRAVAGANZA • NOVEMBER 12-17 organized by co-chair Steve Hargadon and co-chair Lucy Gray
A week-long virtual conference featuring general sessions and keynote addresses highlighting
ideas that inspire action in an increasingly connected world
WHAT
The conference consists of an online series of live webinars in a virtual conference format. The general
focus is on connecting individuals, classrooms, and organizations around the theme of global collaboration
in education. All sessions are recorded and archived.
WHEN
24 hours a day during International Education Week November 12-17, 2012
WHO
Students, educators, thought leaders, and organizations are involved as both participants and presenters.
WHERE
On the internet using the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing platform
School, Library, or Organization Name: Scoala Gimnaziala Speciala Caransebes
Co-Presenter Name(s): Teacher Mineva Rositsa
Country from Which You Will Present: Romania / Bulgaria
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience (such as primary school teachers, high school administrators, students, etc.): Teachers, social media curators, researchers,
Short Session Description (one line): We will present here our research in 2 european projects : ICT4eTwinners project, SMILE Project and top 10 social media tools to build a PLN
Full Session Description (one paragraph minimum):
In XXI Century Education and around the social web new Social Media King is Curation who is about adding value for humans because only they can do what no computer can possibly achieve . The Internet Curator’s role is to seek on the web information related to a specic domain,fillter them, select them, organise, share, present them in a unique mode. For this reason we launch ICT4eTwinners project : Innovation, Curation, Teach for eTwinners where we collaborate and integrate new tools and apps useful for teachers and students in XXI Century Education . This is a eTwinning project launched after I was leader in community of practices 2 organized in SMILE Project . In our COP2 - Using social media in schools - whole school approach we have a team from 8 members who make a case study related to our theme European Schoolnet (EUN) has been awarded an inaugural Digital Citizenship Research Grant by Facebook and for this reason they launched Social Media in Learning Education Project . http://leedu.eun.org/web/smile/home This SMILE year-long project consists of three phases: - An online learning laboratory for 100 teachers from the 30 member states of EUN's partnerships to investigate and embrace the educational opportunities social media offers. - Research with the 100 learning laboratory participants to highlight trends and best practices for how social media is being used and can be used in classrooms. - Broad dissemination of results of the research through EUN’s interactive portals for teachers as well as through European and international meetings and conferences. Nowadays when informatics and science developed spectacular and the use of new online technologies aren’t regarded like a avangardist movement new tools and apps Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the world because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These technologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway to knowledge, promoting creativity and innovation for effective lifelong learning . Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times. Pulling Piaget and Papert , the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments .Web 2.0 , social media and other digital and online technologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers must learn how to use it in a creative mode and integrate in their classroom with students .
