Registration is now open for SoCon09, the third annual social media, social networking conference hosted at Kennesaw State University. The Big Eating, Big Thinking, Big Networking dinner is on Friday, February 6, 2009 at Magianno’s at Cumberland Mall and the full day conference is Saturday, February 7 at Kennesaw State University.
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It has been awhile since I visited StumbleUpon, where via social networking the community directs you to interesting sites. So then, I looked at a page on Vintage Advertising and look what I found. What a great idea, but it will never happen. The ad is from 1968.
We are having a gas shortage crisis here in Atlanta. I mean it is bad. Maybe one in 20 gas stations has gas and even then it is a long wait to fill up. Now Twitter comes to the rescue, with a rolling commentary of who is and who is not selling gas.
McClatchyNext is billed as a:
A shared wiki for McClatchy journalists and others to talk about the way ahead for news, news companies and people who care about them.
If you have not done, so I would recommend a visit, lots of interesting conversations happening at this wiki and you can join the conversation. Here is more:
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Dosh Dosh, an interesting site on social marketing and social networking, lists 48 top social news websites such as Reddit and Digg.
The site also has a primer about social news websites and points you to a list of 380 social news sites.
As you might know, the Harnisch Foundation under the direction of Ruth Ann Harnisch gave us a substantial gift to start the Center for for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. We are up and running. Keep abreast of what is happening at SustainableJournalism.org 
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.