http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/07/mammoth-evernote-meets-tumblr.html
Mammoth is a bookmarking tool that seems to offer the key aspects of Evernote mixed with Tumblr.
Mammoth could be used as a project management tool. To use it to manage projects create a board and share it privately with your collaborators. Then use the board to share notes and assign tasks to each other.
Applications for Education
Mammoth could be a good tool for creating digital portfolios. Students could use Mammoth to showcase examples of their best work in a nice linear layout. Students can use Mammoth to share their portfolios publicly or share them only with you where you can give them feedback.
Alternative to MN eFolio
http://alternativeto.net/software/mammoth/
My Note: Excellent article with ideas for promoting the MakerSpace
http://www.inc.com/adam-fridman/is-snapchat-a-business-tool-yes.html
Snapchat is a Smartphone application that allows users to send photos or short videos to another user. But with Snapchat messages, they disappear after viewing–usually in just a few seconds–so they can’t be forwarded or saved.
how do you build brand awareness on a temporary medium?
Do you think a short Snapchat video of your CEO playing Halo in the conference room would be interesting to a younger audience? A VP sleeping in an office meeting? The HR Director’s bad tie or haircut? Scenes such as these are the coin-of-the-realm in brand marking these days–the way for you and your brand to be “not that guy.” And Snapchat’s temporary nature is the perfect place for such less-than-serious messaging.
You may find it difficult to engage your senior leadership–or other company leaders–in being Snapchat fodder. Or you may decide that producing short clips or funny photos just isn’t worth the marketing investment. Both are fine conclusions.
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/5-ways-boost-twitter-engagement/
#1: Refine Your Twitter Bio
#2: Act Human
#3: Ask People to Act
If you want followers, you can get more of them. If you want shares, you can get more of those, too. All you have to do is ask.
Even big brands understand the power of asking for a retweet.
Your goal is to get more engagement for your tweets, right? Sometimes you just have to ask, and many times people are happy to oblige.
#4: Harness the Power of Hashtags
Hashtags let you interact with the most viral and current topics at any given time.
Hashtags can double your Twitter engagement rate, increase your number of followers and improve your reputation.
#5: Post Consistently
Yesterday, we shared information about the new Coffee App
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/10/01/coffee-the-app/
which offers easy approach to job search.
Please have the following article regarding LinkedIn and their approach to job search
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/02/new-rankings-system-linkedin-based-employment-outcomes-huge-sample
The new Linkedin ranking system (https://www.linkedin.com/edu/rankings/us) tracks the success of college graduates in eight broad career paths, adding weight for jobs deemed “desirable.” It lists the top 25 institutions in each career category.
LinkedIn is ranking only a tiny swath of the academy.
LinkedIn also released a social networking application for prospective students to chat with each other about colleges, and to talk with current students.
Looking for a job or internship? Try Coffee
http://contently.com/strategist/2014/09/29/coffeetheapp-is-the-lovechild-of-tinder-and-linkedin/
the idea that it would be useful to build an app with a similar interface to Tinder, but one that was dedicated to networking instead of hooking up.
The Google Formula for Success
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/the-google-formula-for-success/
Yet today, the authors insist, fast decision-making and flat organizational models have to become a corporate way of life.
The critical ingredient, they argue in their new book, is to build teams, companies and corporate cultures around people they call “smart creatives.” These are digital-age descendants of yesterday’s “knowledge workers,” a term coined in 1959 by Peter Drucker, the famed management theorist.
Smart creatives, the authors write, are impatient, outspoken risk-takers who are easily bored and change jobs frequently. They are intellectually versatile, typically “combining technical depth with business savvy and creative flair,” the authors note.
