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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Is thinking differently the new “wrong”? - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post

Is thinking differently the new “wrong”? - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post

Is thinking differently the new “wrong”?

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Yes I have my Google+ account and I’ve been slowly easing into it. I still have my Facebook account going strong. And Posterous and Twitter and LinkedIn….each has their role based on design. LinkedIn is streamlined for career development. Twitter disperses significant information in bite-sized chunks. Posterous threads discussion visually and chronologically on a timeline. Facebook is a waterfall of friends, families and colleagues washing down one of several very public walls. And Google+ offers more granularity and exclusivity in managing public and private connections.

This idea of funneling exclusive content from the free-flowing social media spigot is the