Thank you, Robin, for pointing out that Google indexes Twitter posts, or at least will lead to our Twitter posts. Very intersting implications, especially given the recent explosive surge in all things Twitter! I suppose we constantly need to remember that everything that happens electronically can eventually be connected.
I tried my hand at this just now, and here are the results. Click to see it full-size.
I am amazed with Google's speed. Just tonight, I posted what was expected to be my final post of the day, after which I decided to look at the remainder of my newsfeeds that I follow with FeedDemon (though not by using Lee Lefever's method tonight), and what did I find in my Google keyword search that FeedDemon tracks for me?
Yes, my own post. I posted about my changing interest in what I post, and made reference to a qualitative methodology of which I am particularly interested, autoethnography.
Movable Type, which I use, pings Google with my new post when it is published. Google then indexed it and my own Google keyword search with my newsreader found it. All within 2 minutes. Yes, 2 minutes. Do the calulations since the time is captured in both places. I am wondering if we have our own keyword searches, perhaps with our own names or our organization's names or anything else we want to track, then within a very short time of posting, Google can tell us what has happened. Google keyword searches that can be followed with FeedDemon makes a powerful eyes and ears on the processing and indexing of information. Hmmm, so who is watching the watcher?
I am not sure if this is always so fast, but it certainly was on a snowy March night here in NYC.
I just read Philip's 101 Great Posting Ideas That Will Make Your Blog Sizzle and got some good ieas about creating blog posts. I know that my intentions about why I blog have changed since I started to blog more seriously back in December, so this list and some of the other great idea-farms out there (such as Chris Garrett, who showed me this link in the first place).
I started to blog because I am interested in power issues and how they are manifest within organizations. As an:
- instructional designer
- educator, and
- student
I am also interested in those issues. I also like:
- social media
- online community development
- communications
- qualitative research (especially autoethnography)
- philosophical and theoretical foundations of
- adult education
- social and political philosophy
- aesthetics
- edublogging
- reflective practice
- coaching
to name just a few. While my interests are slowly moving their way into my blog writing, perhaps I may want to review my writing to see what themes are developing. Perhaps I may also want to reframe the categories I use here, as well as the tags I use. This is certainly an interesting endeavor!
Kathy Sierra really captured and expressed a nagging feeling I have been having about why my experience at Northern Voice was so important for me. While online tools and a Very Real Virtual Community (VRVC) are important for me, I feel completely energized when I meet live those who I read and correspond with online. I really like meeting people whose work I have read for years, as then it gives a new dimension to the community and sense of relationship. Rather than my just repeating what she said, take a look at her post. Thank you, Beth, for pointing it out!
Perhaps this explains why many online degree programs require some F2F time and why blended learning is considered a better learning solution than simple e-learning alone?
