Last minute on Friday, the links of the week are ready. Enjoy.

State of the Web 2008 findings
Twitter To Go: How one local coffee shop used Twitter to double their clientele. What’s YOUR story? | Blog of Mr. Tweet
Verify your work with checklists
Here’s What a Blog Adds to Your Business
Eight Keys [...]

In the spirit of change here is the list of links for the week. Even though the week was short a great deal has happened. The social media platform is catching on and this week has not only shown it on the web but also in real life.

Social Media Panel Discussion – Great Success!
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Last week I gave a presentation to our president’s council about new communication tools and how we are using them to engage and involve students. I have posted in the past about Studying Students Social Network Usage and Our Twitter Initiative, since then we have been actively pursuing the popular social networks. Just recently I [...]

Learning is fundamental… er wait that was reading. Anyways reading these links of the week will give you a little insight into the web as it it evolves.

By far the best explanation of social media I’ve ever seen
Why Weird & Wonderful Often Works
College Web Editor – Facebook and other social networking websites now [...]

Interested in social media? Do you want to hear me speak? On January 21 Refresh Detroit is hosting a Social Media Panel Discussion at Washtenaw Community College. It is a free event and open to the public.
Learn about the opportunities social media brings for individuals, companies, and social causes. Find out how to use social [...]

We just launched a completely new web site that strives to bring back great words. The site is called Word Warriors and it is in contrast to the Lake Superior State yearly list of banished words. We are looking for user submitted words and allow users to vote on the current word list. There is [...]

So we are starting 2009 out with a bang. Great stuff this week, the break inspired some great articles.

The Book Cover Archive
TEDTalks : My journey in design, from tofu to RISD – John Maeda (2008)
5 Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferriss
HTML 5 elements test
New Gel Video: Ji Lee
Return of the [...]