Month: April 2011

If you are looking for something to add to your Kindle queue, or a new good-ol-fashioned book to read, we want to suggest Nicolas Pujol’s The Mind Share Market: The Power of Alternative Currency.

Ok, so it may only really appeal to you if you are like us and love learning more about online business models and strategies for building services on the web. But we had to share because Edublogs is featured as a case study in the book – which we think is pretty cool!

Through Pujol’s book, those looking to start new ventures online can learn how services like Edublogs use the ‘freemium’ model to build communities that include (as in our case) millions of users.

What do you think?

The first Student Blogging Challenge of the year is under way, and even if you or your students aren’t participating, the challenge blog is an excellent resource for blogging ideas.

So far this challenge, students and teachers have created about pages, avatars, and slideshows, written in a foreign language, edited images, and much more!

As you can see here, this is ‘take a break’ week in the challenge – and it is never too late to start!

Also, the fearless challenge leader, Sue Wyatt, is always looking for volunteers to visit student blogs and leave comments. You can learn more about that here.

Be sure to check out the great student work and consider helping out in the global challenge!