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Tweeting buildings: good idea or way too much?

Kate O'Neill — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:31:30 +0000

From the CleanTechies Blog at CleanTechies.com comes this article called Green IT: Buildings Are Now Twittering Their Energy Consumption:

In partnership with smart grid company SmartSynch, Ole Miss has created online feeds (also via RSS) detailing several of its main buildingsâ€™ energy use, ostensibly to â€œalter behavior to reduce electricity consumption and carbon emissions.â€ The UMiss project will study consumption from lighting, temperature controls, and appliances. The organizations have created an online application to monitor and report the energy draw so that building operators can learn where energy is being wasted and implement new conservation strategies.

Good idea? Too much? What say you?

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Kate O'Neill — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:16:33 +0000

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In which social media is good for more than wasting time

Kate O'Neill — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:52:23 +0000

This link has really made the rounds of my Twitter and Facebook friends in the past few days. On the off-chance you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll provide the link here since it does tie in with a desire to make the world a better place:

For most of us, social media has changed our lives in some meaningful way. Collectively it is changing the world for good. Given the pace of innovation and adoption, change has become a constant. Every so often we find the need to stop and reflect on its most recent and noteworthy developments, hence the following list.

Any other ways you know of to put social media to idealistic use?