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Can using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Blogging help save the Ugandan mountain gorilla? With less than 800 in the world, there’s not much time to find out.

Over the past decade groups around the world have utilized Internet communication technologies during crisis to broadcast their message to local and global communities. We take three case studies to see how this has been done. In the process we see that over the years, the ability to harness Internet communications is moving from organizations to anyone with actual Internet access.

Trying to decide on an Open Source Platform that provides robust blogging and social networking capabilities? So were we.

As information industries struggle, they grasp at anything to protect their turf. The result is that we all suffer.

Confused about what open source CMS to use? This cheat sheet might help.

Start a blog, take some pictures, create an amazing video. Congrats on graduating. Now get to work.

If Twitter is chattered conversation you need to treat it as such. If you approached a social gathering like a party and said, how am I going to use this situation, and worse, articulated it and acted like it, you’d come off as abrasive and crude.

A new parody to sung to the theme of American Pie takes down the media industry.

I’ll be teaching at Columbia this fall and am considering what the Web site will be for the course. Drupal, Elgg, BuddyPress, Pligg? They’re all good. Not quite sure what I’ll choose but here are some of the ideas we’ll be talking about.

Reviewing the PDF reader Issuu and seeing what it can do.