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From Mashable

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This sums it up nicely:
"As educators, we know that we need to help young people understand how their digital stories might be interpreted and appropriated, and support them to maintain their privacy. But can we also find ways to help them tell their stories in ways that are not just about presenting idealized versions of themselves to a corporate world, but allow them to critique these narratives and gain agency over their own stories?"

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One of my fave bloggers, David Hopkins, casts a critical eye over 4sq and it's potential for use in education.

From November 2010

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A bevy of ideas on how to use Foursquare in an educational setting.

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An example of an HEI using location-based social media to support its students.

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This risks fuelling the perception that Twitter is a vanity channel for slebs but I'm thinking of using it in tomorrow's social networking session. , asking attendees to imagining themselves in the shot, replacing words like "fan" with "community" etc.

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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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Reflection on the Guardian's recently published social media guidelines for journalists

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An example of digital storytelling using a range of social media. Storify, still in beta and requiring an invite (which I don't have yet, boo!), allows a user to aggregate different items of social media to create a narrative experience on a topic.
This is an example by will Allen at JISC Netskills

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Interesting insight into the social media policy of a reasonably enlightened newspaper group. Encourages engagement with integrity.

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Article from Giga-Om about reluctance of traditional media outlets to embrace the social, personalised nature of social networking.

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Backchannel management site. Via @johnfaig. Not had a chance to use this in anger but will have a go next time I run a workshop.

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Useful web tool for tracking twitter hash tags.

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The US Dept of Defence has taken quite an enlightened approach to the use of social media by its employees. This site outlines how they've balanced the opportunities with the risks.

In short, they've recognised that using web 2.0 social media sites can have operational benefit even in an environment where security of systems and information is paramount.

Wonder how their experience with Wikileaks has impacted on this recently.

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Steve in the office reflected recently that we are not Facebook's users, we are it's product. Our data, given up willingly is a valuable commodity to companies wanting to sell to us (or use our data in other ways).

This post by David Rowan explains why he's not using Facebook because of this.

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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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BBC article on why social networking tools can available in the wild could be useful in building relationships in business. A lot of what is said could be applied to workplace learning using soc networking too.

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Doug Belshaw's impressive (and baffling) mind map detailing the research for his thesis on Digital Literacies

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