Web Works

Yesterday evening, I logged into the recently-created @TexasInnovation twitter account I run and received a startling, but fun, discovery–this message:
“New! Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA)
Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a [...]

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Tracy Mueller, with whom I published the Texas Magazine, gathered a brown-bag lunch recently for people around campus interested in how we put a magazine online using Wordpress. We had at least a dozen people and a bunch of questions so she followed it up with some blog posts of her own elaborating on the [...]

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Mashable published three great social media policies to steal from.
Kodak on transparency:
Even when you are talking as an individual, people may perceive you to be talking on behalf of Kodak. If you blog or discuss photography, printing or other topics related to a Kodak business, be upfront and explain that you work for Kodak; however, [...]

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The following borrows heavily from Chip & Dan Heath’s Made to Stick (specifically pages 89–93). The concept itself is nothing new, however, the idea and its implications are unique to McCombs and its website.
In the 1960s, ABC signed a contract to televise college football games nationally. This was a previously unheard of notion, as college [...]

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