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This online programme on adapting to the networked economy includes tools, tips & techniques from people who have been connecting, communicating and collaborating online for over fifteen years. The programme is for anyone who has spent the last decade or more inside an organisation and is now looking to branch out and connect with the digital reality of the connected economy. Whether you are considering freelancing, working as an alliance or just connecting beyond the corporate walls, this programme is designed to give you a head start.

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The Google+ Hangouts are an easy and great way to connect face-to-face with up to ten people. The other social media platforms don’t have this integrated functionality. Even when Facebook gets Skype, it’s not as good and doesn’t allow for ten people at once.

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Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites in a survey that explored people’s overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement. The findings presented here paint a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds. Wherever possible, we seek to disentangle whether people’s varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites, or to other relevant demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and social class.

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Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites in a survey that explored people’s overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement. The findings presented here paint a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds. Wherever possible, we seek to disentangle whether people’s varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites, or to other relevant demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and social class.

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COPPA does not stop Facebook from allowing users under age 13 to join the site. COPPA does not stop any website from allowing users under age 13 to join. What COPPA does require is stricter privacy measures from websites aimed at those under 13 and at websites that know they are collecting personal information from those under 13.

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For those new to the concept, Metcalfe’s Law basically states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to the network. A lone fax machine is just a copier with a phone line. A lone email account is basically an electronic sticky note system for yourself. As more nodes get added to the network, not only does the network’s value grow, but so does the value of your node, assuming you’re connected in some way to each new node.

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The more important social media becomes in the professional academic world–and I think we have every reason to believe that social media will become more and more important–the more disadvantaged such people will be. And, conversely, the more distorted the public image of the conference and the work of conference-goers will become, as it will reflect only a thin slice of the entire experience that takes place every year.

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he latest report out of Internet traffic analysis firm comScore finds that there's a higher percentage of women than men using social networking sites. According to comScore's new report "Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet," 75.8 percent of women globally used social networking sites in May, versus only 69.7 percent of men. The report also found women were spending "significantly more" time on social networking sites than men, at 5.5 hours per month on average compared with only 4 hours per month for men. Among other findings of the report: the highest number of women using social networking sites are in Latin America, where 94.1 percent of females online are using those sites, and the lowest number are in the Asia Pacific region, where only 54.9 percent of women are using social networking.

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"You’re in the middle of writing a 10-page term paper, it’s 11 p.m., and there’s no end in sight. Looks like it’s time for Facebook. That ever-beckoning distraction has led some people to see the combination of the popular social network and studying as an academic disaster. However, a recently published study in the Journal of College Student Retention finds that frequent Facebookers are actually more likely to return to their initial college after their freshman year. It's the latest in a series of studies exploring possible links between Facebook and academics. In a survey of 375 randomly selected students at Abilene Christian University, those who were more active on the social network were likelier to return for their sophomore year. On average, returning sophomores had 27 more friends and 59 more wall posts than did students who didn't return. "

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"Digital citizenship isn’t just about recognising and dealing with online hazards. It’s about building safe spaces and communities, understanding how to manage personal information, and about being internet savvy - using your online presence to grow and shape your world in a safe, creative way, and inspiring others to do the same. "

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"This checklist is designed to help review Social Networking Services (SNS). Although services develop continually, Childnet is committed to ensuring that the information provided is accurate at the time of publication (March 2008). We have drawn on publicly available information from service providers' websites (particularly each service's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy), as well as trying out each of the sites reviewed extensively. Additionally, we contacted the service providers included here and invited them to contribute to the project and comment on the chart entry for their service."

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"As incredible as it sounds, the United States Patent and Trademark Office actually awarded Amazon a patent for the "Social Networking System." To make it truly ridiculous, the abstract on the patent reads as though it were succinctly describing Facebook. Amazon's reasoning throughout the whole process has been that, since they purchased PlanetAll in 1998, and PlanetAll is often considered to be the first social network on the Internet, Amazon itself is responsible for inventing the modern social network. Of course, the fact that PlanetAll was founded and run for two full years before Amazon acquired it doesn't seem to be important to the USPTO. And to think, we all thought it was funny when Facebook patented the News Feed."

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"Facebook, MySpace and other Web sites have unleashed a potent new phenomenon of social networking in cyberspace. But at the same time, a growing body of evidence is suggesting that traditional social networks play a surprisingly powerful and underrecognized role in influencing how people behave."

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"Perhaps the most daunting challenge facing educators in the 21st century classroom is creating an environment that promotes real student connection in the online learning environment. When successful, the result of such community building is increased accountability, retention and, ultimately, graduation rates. When unsuccessful, students may feel isolated, unsupported and cast out of their own education. Online learning and teaching, while still a nascent modality, has opened access to higher education at a level not seen since the G.I. Bill. In order to retain and prepare these students for the world and the workforce, faculty and academic support must build true communities in asynchronous online learning environments. The answer in how to do so may already have been discovered by our students."

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"A new study from the University of Maryland finds that students are hooked on social media and cellphones, describing withdrawals in terms similar to those used by drug and alcohol addicts. The study from the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, "24 Hours: Unplugged," asked 200 students on the campus to give up all media for a full day and blog on private Web sites about their experience. Student reaction showed addictionlike withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, misery, and being jittery, the authors wrote."

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Social network sites (SNS) like MySpace seem to play a role in friendships and wider relationships for many people. Emotion expression can be important in relationship maintenance but little is known about the role of emotion in SNSs, other than positive comments being widespread in MySpace. Is emotion typically reciprocated, and do Friends express and/or receive similar levels of emotion expression to each other? Based upon an analysis of over two million MySpace public comments associated with 2,990 pairs of U.K. and U.S. Friends using a sentiment detection program, statistically significant evidence was found for a weak correlation between the strength of positive emotion exchanged between Friends and received by Friends. This is consistent with two separate hypotheses: members tend to Friend others with similar levels of public emotion expression, or the expression of emotion in MySpace is contagious. The results may help to identify non–optimal behaviour and at–risk individuals in SNSs.

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Teenagers will freely give up personal information to join social networks on the Internet. Afterwards, they are surprised when their parents read their journals. Communities are outraged by the personal information posted by young people online and colleges keep track of student activities on and off campus. The posting of personal information by teens and students has consequences. This article will discuss the uproar over privacy issues in social networks by describing a privacy paradox; private versus public space; and, social networking privacy issues. It will finally discuss proposed privacy solutions and steps that can be taken to help resolve the privacy paradox.

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This article describes results of a study investigating the potential of using social network analysis to evaluate programs that aim at improving schools by fostering greater collaboration between teachers. The goal of this method is to use data about teacher collaboration within schools to map the distribution of expertise and resources needed to enact reforms. Such maps are of great potential value to school leaders, who are responsible for instructional leadership in schools, but they also include information that could bring harm to individuals and school communities. In this article, the authors describe interview findings about concerns educators have with collecting and sharing social network data. A chief finding is that although the majority of teachers consider collecting social network data to be problematic but feasible, some teachers report concerns about privacy and the effect on their school's goals to foster community if the data are shared with their schools.

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"One hundred years ago, many teachers taught classes within a certain geographic area. They were limited to talking with local people and following policies created by area administrators. “It’s only been in the past 10 years with more of the advent of Web 2.0 that distance has really become a speed bump rather than a roadblock to long-distance collaboration between educators who are interested in the same topics,” said Jason Flom, a fifth-grade teacher at Cornerstone Learning Community in Tallahassee, Fla., and founder of the blog Ecology of Education. Blogs, forums, list serves, chat rooms, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools have expanded the learning scene for educators. Now someone in Australia can collaborate with someone in the United States and trade ideas. And that’s crucial if teachers want to prepare their students for life in a global community."

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