Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged Dean Shareski
Audience as Community
Nov 24th
Flickr: Spiderpops
So I read Dean Shareski’s post Why Audience Matters earlier today and just finished reading Clarence’s follow up post and thought I’d add to the conversation as well.
Dean does a great job talking about the different roles an audience can play and I’d like to extend his list.
Audience as Community
Your audience becomes a community when audience members start to repeatedly visits your blog or site. A community forms around your content. A community that becomes interested in what you have to say, follows your thoughts, or ideas, and is committed to you in some way. Be it an RSS feed, a More >
The Stick turns 3!
Sep 24th
I told this story as my 10 minute TED talk at Learning 2.008. As September 19th was The Stick’s 3 year anniversary.
The Thinking Stick turned 3 a few days ago and it’s hard to imagine that it’s been 3 years since I installed WordPress and just started writing. As I started looking back through those first posts I started thinking about the journey that this blog has taken me on.
My first blog post was about a 5th grade classroom called the Polar Bear Class. The website no longer exists but this was my beginning into blogging. Talking about a class that More >
Three Gems for the day
Aug 5th
I use to look over people’s blogs that had del.icio.us post linking to all the things they bookmarked that day. I use to think that this was a waste of my time, that those links are just links.
Then I actually started reading some.
Which lead to clicking on some.
Which now has me waiting for people like Dean and Tim to post their next round.
The great part is I know I don’t have to read them everyday. I wait until I have five or six days worth of links from Dean and Tim and then I go at it clicking and opening tabs.
Basically I’m using More >
