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Social networks are becoming the dominant way many of us get information online.  Twitter and Facebook are growing at rapid clips and are increasingly becoming go-to areas for the latest information.  These networks are not just about your friends, but also places to get updates from those who work in your industry and areas of specialty.

In this Two Minute Survey, we ask you to give us some feedback on how you use social networks along with how you manage the flow of information coming from these networks.

For a process of reviewing the NMC "brand" (everything from our logo to our tag line to our web sites) we are asking our community to collectively identify what the NMC represents to them. For example, our tag line has contained three keywords "sparking innovation, learning, & creativity."

Does this describe the NMC for you?

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In this really quick survey, all we ask for is you to share the three words that come to mind when you think of the NMC. We plan to use this to develop a visual word cloud to see what emerges as the strongest themes.

On October 20, 2008, the NMC announced the release of a white paper produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. This paper reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education.

Download the Report (1.4 Mb, 32 pp)
66,290 downloads as of August 22 2011

Our second Two Minute survey looks for examples of mobile technology projects happening at NMC organizations. We here at NMC are most interested in seeing some up-to-the-moment data on what members are doing with mobile phones.  Please point us to any info you might have on anything related to mobile in your institution or that you may know about.   (image credit: Flickr CC Licensed Photo by Steve Keys)

The Question:
We here at NMC are most interested in seeing some up-to-the-moment data on what members are doing with mobile phones. Please point us to any info you might have on anything related to mobile in your institution or that you may know about. Any and all pointers to projects are appreciated.

In this NMC Two Minute Survey we hope to gather a collection of the kinds of applications New Media people are adding to their iPhone/iPod Touch devices. (image credit: GadgetReview)

The Question:
What are your favorite apps on your iPhone? Let us know what you think are useful iPhone apps and we'll publish a list of them!

1. What is the name of the app?
2. What does the app do? Why is it a favorite of yours?
3. What kind of app is it? (menu of choices)

The Results: (view full spreadsheet)

A few weeks ago we posted Collaborating without Email as an idea how to gather information from NMCTAB withoutn the usual round of long emails needing manual compilation. A member had asked to poll the NMCTAB on use of ePortolio software and whether that as a resource had been used in an accredidation process. We did this by setting up a form in Google docs that populates an online repadsheet.

The results included 25 responses collected in 9 days, without one email filling up the NMCTAB listserv. The results are available at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=prvl0yLfIeb5nQKy_I253HA