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Aggregating Bookmarks

February 13, 2008

I’ve used various social bookmarking tools, such as Furl and Magnolia, but have settled on delicious for a while. If you use many bookmarking applications, as well as rating tools like Digg, you might be interested in SocialMarker, which lets you save a page for filing on several systems at once.

SocialMarker lists 31 tools, several which I’ve never heard of, and a new bookmarking service, Mister-Wong, which is targeted at the education field.

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“I?m the luckiest teacher in Philadelphia”

February 13, 2008

Last month I attended Educon 2.0 in Philadelphia, an “unconference” that grew out of a grass roots movement by many educators who blog and work with Web 2.0 tools. In my opinion, it was a spectacular success, not just because 250 educators showed up on a wintery weekend in Philadelphia, most on their own dime, but because of the showcase it provided for the Science Leadership Academy - especially the teachers and students.

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AIM 2008

February 13, 2008

The 2nd Atlantic Internet Marketing Conference.
The Learning Event You Need to Succeed Online.
The Atlantic Internet Marketing Conference, in Moncton New Brunswick, May 4-6, 2008, brings together leading local and international experts to help businesses throughout Atlantic Canada market their companies online and win the web!

I will be a speaker at AIM this year and I thought I’d check out the other speakers listed. A quick search on each speaker revealed only a few who had some sort of online direct communication:

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