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If you have followed by blogs at all, you know I have spent the last week plus, complaining about the demise of Twitter, aka the switch to X. In the interim of that rant I have yet to download Threads. I also wrote a bit about Threads a while back and how I did not think I had the time or attention span for yet another social media account to follow. Yet, here I am, bringing it back up again.  In an effort to establish if it is something I want to download, I had my partner download it first. All is fair in love and social media, right?! It has the look and feel of a Twitter feed. What was most interesting is you get a prompt of if you want to follow the people you follow on Instagram which assists with quick engagement in my mind. Before downloading another platform though, I do read quite a bit of nonsense about it and compare it to other sites, before taking the plunge. I found this interesting Threads v Twitter  article that highlights 10 differences between the platforms. Now, thi

It happened - the full transition to X happened.  The following comments are my own personal feelings and beliefs towards the platform.  I do not like the X, it is not Twitter.  I will be getting rid of X once this class is over.  I am very sad about this, and here is why... This almost feels like the web death of Myspace, it is one of the first social media tools and platforms I used. I remember being at a conference in 2008 when their was a keynote session discussing Twitter and "what a Tweet could do for you". I remember being so confused by the concept, because it was the first of its kind. It was also crazy to think about who you could follow or tweet. Tweeting became very popular as did the baby blue bird, which I know I referenced and mourned in last weeks blog post.  All of this rambling to say, I know that products, platforms, and offerings evolve and I welcome that - however, this is different. A company that was thriving was buried by a billionaire for no other rea

All week I have been wanting to blog about how Elon Musk changed Twitter's iconic (I believe it was iconic) logo to the X. An X.. just an X. And then I thought, nah it is not that big of a deal, there are other things to talk about... and then low and behold he changed the X to a different X. Y'all... For those of you that might not remember or frankly don't care, the original logo was the bird. There were many variations of a bird, but we always knew it was a bird and to me it was synonymous with Twitter, given "tweeting".  I thought it would be fun to show the changes in the bird logo over the years and then to share the ridiculous new X logo and the already quick change to it.  I remember the bird changes because I believe I joined Twitter in 2009 and so was aware of the change from 2009 to 2010 which then inevitable became the logo and look of Twitter.  Now the X, I just don't understand. On Sunday, Elon Musk announced he was rebranding Twitter to X and ev

I am becoming more and more reflective as the semester comes to a close. This is my third and final summer of taking courses for my PhD program and this fall I start dissertation writing. Immediate reflections, I wish I had taken this course earlier in my program. This course is part of my outside discipline courses that I got to choose. I wish I had taken this course earlier so I could have utilized more of the Web 2.0 tools we have learned about and so that I wouldn’t have senioritis. Yes, senioritis. The unfortunate aftermath of passing my preliminary exam and just ready to be done with coursework all together. I share this senioritis reflection with you because I believe it has inhibited me from being my best self in this course, my best learner and engager with classmates. I have engaged, I have participated, I have learned, but with a second week roadblock of an exam, a mental block pushing me towards completion, and impending soon-to-come deadlines for writing, I know I could

As we near the end of the semester, I have been trying to reflect on some of the Web 2.0 tools I utilized a lot before this course and not recognizing they were classified as tools for online learning and community. One particular tool I used a lot throughout my master’s program was Prezi. I used Prezi because it was PowerPoint on steroids – interactive and different capabilities. I bring up Prezi because I do not use Prezi anymore for work or school, however I could see it being useful in throughout this course in some capacity. Does anyone still use Prezi, has anyone ever used Prezi? I just tried to login into Prezi to see old presentations and I have no idea which email I used for it, sigh. I believe it was my Colorado State email address but alas I will share with you why I believe it could still be a useful Web 2.0 tool especially for learning. Prezi allows you to invite team members to presentations, you can choose your current role – business, educator, student, or other –

Since being enrolled in this course - which has been a pleasure so far - I have been more engaged with any news about social media, platforms, Web 2.0 as a whole, and what is offered for individuals. As you all also know if you read my blog at all and saw on my post from yesterday, I always like to share the links and stories.  This morning, when I woke for a wonderful rainy Friday, I was reading through the interwebs and stumbled upon an article posted by the Search Engine Journal  4 hours ago - so hot off the press - about  134 Social Media Statistics You Need To Know For 2023 .  Since we have been analyzing social media platforms and utilizing so many different tools throughout this course, I thought these statistics were fascinating, and could be interesting to some of us in the larger community.  Earlier in the semester, I once asked in one of my blog posts what was the most used or popular social media site amongst my classmates - mine was TikTok and I think other individuals wer