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If, like me, you're one of those shy, retiring types, conferences can be daunting and exhausting experiences. I love having the opportunity to discover new stuff but the all importnat bit about making new connections doesn't come easily. 
If that sounds like you then Sacha Chua from IBM has some handy tips for "shy connectors" to improve your conference productivity.

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Here's Martin Weller's take on the "social networking backlash" backlash

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I really should broaden my reading beyond the Guardian, but here's a post about the backlash against social networking.

Is it really a backlash or just down to social networking's progress along the hype curve?

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Blog post from Brian Kelly on UK Universities using official Twitter accounts. It's interesting to compare them all and Brian has some useful suggestions for best practice at the end of the post

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Like many people, I've got different identities on different networks; Twitter for work, Facebook for friends and family, LinkedIn for former colleagues. In some ways having these on separate systems is useful as their functionality suits who I'm connecting with but it's also a pain having to manage all these accounts.

Thinking I might have a closer look at Orkut. They seem to have a a more nuanced view of online identity than Facebook. 

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A pretty exhaustive breakdown of the uses of social networking tools in learning mapped against categories of learning types.

I'm sure there are more possibilities than the ones mentioned but as a way of showing the possibilities of using social networking it's a great starting point

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A PDF from JISC/CETIS on the interoperability issues around DLE's. Short and snappy - good introduction

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Interesting wee article indicating we are no longer a nation of shopkeepers! See the interesting flash graphic

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