microblogging

Social media for science: an interview with Tom Vandenbosch

Social media for science: an interview with Tom Vandenbosch
During the recent World Congress of Agroforestry (WCA2009) in Nairobi, Kenya, the Congress reporting team plunged headlong into social media in a bid to maximize the event’s communications, which was achieved via the Congress blog, the @icraf Twitter account, pictures on Flickr and bookmarks on...

Tweeting live from WCA2009 opening addresses

Follow the Congress opening keynotes on @icraf. We’re covering the keynotes (have a look at the speakers’ lineup) in turn. Connection is not helping us: working off mobile phone internet. It’s exciting, though. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate, Green Belt Movement, closed her session...

Microblogging (#1 – Social Media Tools Blog Series)

Microblogging is a form of blogging based on short posts. A real-time communication platform, microblogs are short, tight snippets of information that tell others what you’re doing, where you’re going or even how you’re feeling at any given moment. In a social context, you could essentially...

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