I had such a great time tonight giving my presentation on Social Networking. The group that attended was really great, and I hope you all learned a lot. I’m glad I was able to answer most of your questions, and hope I didn’t leave too much information out.
Thanks again to Elaine Edwards for thinking of me when looking for someone to give this presentation, and thank you to St. Patrick High School for having me in as their speaker.
If you would like to download the slideshow or handout click these links:

Slideshow Download

Handout Download

If you have any other questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at blog@myjorgenson.com. Otherwise feel free to comment here.
Also for those of you looking for the links on how to Quit Facebook, Go Here. You will be prompted to enter your Facebook login and password. After you enter those, you will be shown the page for permanently deleting your account. Just remember that you need to make sure you don’t try to log into your account at all for 14 days, or it will cancel the request to delete.

Tonight I will be giving a presentation on Social Networking entitled Your Kids Online: A Parent’s Guide.

As a result I’ve decided to commit complete and total Facebook Suicide. I’ll be permanently deleting my Facebook account along with 13730 people on Quit Facebook Day, May 31st 2010. The reason I’m choosing to delete my account as opposed to simply removing all of my private information, is because I do not wish to be a reason for my friends and family to choose to continue to use this service.
I am not trying to say that Facebook is a useless service, and that it is not right for some people. I just feel, that if my information is going to be on continual public display, I’d like it to be on my own terms. That is why I have things like this blog and my twitter account.
If you think you might be interested, make sure to check out the website for Quit Facebook Day.
Or if you can’t wait until May 31, 2010 to quit then follow this link for information on How to Quit Facebook.
See here for my original inspiration to Quit Facebook, courtesy of Adbusters.
Also if you are in Thunder Bay, make sure to check out my presentation on Social Networking entitled “Your Kids Online: A Parent’s Guide”. The presentation if May 26, 2010 at 7pm, to be held at St. Patrick High School. No admission charge, Free Refreshments and door prizes will be available.

And on the third one hundred and ninety-seventh day he rose from the dead and began to write his blog again.

I have been inspired (and nagged) to come back and write on this blog. It seems I’ve found enough things to write about, and found ways to prevent rushed writing or posts of epic length. Also I’m tired of hearing people ask, “are you going to post anything soon? I’ve been checking since November.” This should keep everyone concerned happy from here out.

I will say part of why I lost track of this blog was school. Though I’m not willing to say that my program was anywhere near difficult enough to prevent from writing here, I simply had too many distractions over that period of time. The other thing that kept me thoroughly occupied was Twitter. It seems there are occasions where 140 characters just doesn’t cut it, and for those times I will be writing here.
So from this day forward, I promise to write on a more regular basis than I have at any point on this blog, which means I need to post once more this year, and I should be pretty well off.

Anywho, I’ll see you later this week with why I’m committing Facebook Suicide, and maybe a review of something.

Ciao
- E

To say that Tweetie for Mac is my new favourite desktop Twitter application would be completely incorrect. What I should really tell you is that I could not find an application to hold that title before Tweetie came along. Everything I tried before suffered from either serious problems in aestheics, overuse of screen real estate or poor user interface. Tweetie seems to have solved nearly all those problems and appear to be constantly improving their product.
Tweetie began as an iPhone Twitter application from the great people over at atebits. Tweetie for iPhone has been my default mobile Twitter application and it appears they have brought everything they learned on the iPhone into their new desktop program.
Tweetie has a very elegant design with large buttons for your Timeline, @ Replies or Mentions, Direct Messages and Search. The layout at the top of screen feels very familiar if you use the iTunes store, and shows where you’ve travelled if you start wandering through other peoples posts and replies. Conversations between yourself and other twitterers are very easy to follow and can be brought out into separate screens. These separate screens can also seemingly be used for many other aspects of the program as well. You can also view nearly full information on any twitter user who’s name is in your timeline, including profile photo, description, their posts, friends and followers. There are options for static or auto rolling scroll bar when new posts are made, as well as a menu bar icon that lights up when those posts arrive. For those power users Tweetie on both desktop and iPhone supports multiple accounts.
Tweetie for Mac comes in two flavours currently. One being the free version with very limited advertising presented in your regular timeline, the second being a paid version without advertisements for the price of $19.95, currently discounted to $14.95 as of the time of writing this post.
This application comes very highly recommended, and I can only imagine the beautiful things to come from the people at atebits with the support of dedicated twitterers who value the products they use.