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Being a leader and the use of social media
January 28, 2012 By Jason DeFuria Leave a Comment
It has become a norm of society to post exactly what we feel and exactly what we are thinking as our Facebook, Twitter, or other social media websites. While many of these thoughts are generally okay to post, it might not be in your best interest to post your disappointments online, as it makes you [...]
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Moodle to study for midterms!
January 19, 2012 By Jason DeFuria Leave a Comment
Last weekend, I spent a vast majority of my Saturday making quizzes for my students to review for their midterms for my class. The Moodle system is powerful, but not very intuitive, at least from a teacher’s standpoint. But, providing the practice quizzes was more of a priority than the backend follies with Moodle in [...]
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SpiderOak, a superior alternative to Dropbox
January 21, 2012 By Jason DeFuria 1 Comment
I’ve been using Dropbox for a couple of years, and had generally liked the experience. In fact, I started using Dropbox as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst when writing my thesis, because of the ability to keep the document synced and work on it wherever I was. Recently (as in a couple [...]
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Twitter Social Media Tools #1
January 25, 2012 By Jason DeFuria Leave a Comment
I decided that I am starting a column based on the tools that I currently use to help make Twitter more automated and maximize time spent. The first tool I am going to write about is Justunfollow.com. I use Just Unfollow on EZ Local Savings as well as my personal Twitter. I also used Just [...]
Do we really ever “grow up?”
January 24, 2012 By Jason DeFuria Leave a Comment
Today was one of the best days that I’ve had in a while, and it wasn’t so because of anything that happened before about 3:30 pm. Come to think about it, I was having a pretty frustrating day until 3:30 pm. But the major change in that was getting a text from one of my [...]
The Secret of Life
January 24, 2012 By Jason DeFuria Leave a Comment
I was laying here in bed, thinking about how much I accomplished today (and then I realized I forgot to update my blog) and realized that I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted to. I’m pretty sure that it’s one of those lessons; Life has interruptions, distractions, and missing pieces. Life isn’t perfect. And with all [...]

Newt Gingrich won South Carolina, Mitt Romney winning Social Media
January 22, 2012 By Jason DeFuria Leave a Comment
It’s super interesting to me that Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina vote. I thought that Mitt Romney was going to win New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida, which would have won him the nomination. Mitt Romney, however, is still winning if you take a look at the social media influence. ZDNet provides the following [...]


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