My wife joins the blogosphere so that her students will learn more about the environment

With an impending trip for the Earthwatch summit in Maryland, my wife, Jackie has joined the blogosphere. Her blog will focus on her research and her off-site education for her San Antonio James Madison environmental science and physics students. As a rookie blogger, Jackie will have to learn about such great tools as Budurl, Twitter and other social media tools that will help her get an audience for her online work. Today, she bought her own video camera for her research, so I will have to share with her how to post her videos online. Right now, I'll get her a Youtube account, but I will begin to look at other video sharing resources.

Budurl -- the little app that will help this blog

So, if you are like me and want to share either your latest blog update or that post from the Chicago Tribune on Twitter, you had to learn how to concisely say your tweet, until Budurl came about. For a tweeeter like me, this is a great little app. And, when I get to learn how to use the traffic management aspect of Budurl, it can only help this blog.