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Pathable: Social Network for Conferences and Events
A Community and Social Network for Your Conference. Your attendees come to network, but it's hard. Pathable's easy-to-use, on-line community and social network helps attendees (and sponsors) meet and communicate with each other.
LMS or SNS?
"To survive, LMS vendors will need to transform their offerings on the social network model of Facebook. ELGG is an excellent alternative to an LMS, but most organizations are not yet willing to accept a network-centric tool as an alternative to Moodle."
Is Online Privacy a Generational Issue?
"both teens and adults actively manage their information online -- 60% of adults and 66% of teens restrict access to information in their profile."
Groupsite.com - How Groups Make Things Happen (Formerly CollectiveX)
With Groupsites, people from a wide range of professional and social groups within companies, communities, non-profits, families and more are now able to instantly and easily communicate, share, network. Best of all, basic Groupsites are FREE to create and can be setup to be public; completely private and secure; or somewhere in between.
Facebook can use your pictures for ads, no permission required
A warning is bouncing through cyberspace today, landing on the Facebook statuses of many of the social networking site's users. The message: "Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission." It continues with a prescription of how you can protect your photos.
Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance
Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic style and substance, but the time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook.
10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media
Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly.
Taxonomy of Social Networks
In a nutshell, if you want to make your tribe more powerful, you can work to either tighten it, or broaden it. If you tighten, you strengthen the connections between the members of the tribe, or between the leader and the tribe membership. If you broaden, you bring new people into the tribe. It’s a bit of a quality vs. quantity battle.
CrowdVine: Create Your Own Social Network for Conferences, Events, Groups or Organizations
CrowdVine for Conferences. Create a community around your conference. Help attendees meet easily. Amplify the networking value of your event.
Teaching and Learning - The Digital Student
Here's a recent presentation I gave, Thursday May 14th, to kickoff one of our end of year faculty days. I wasn't able to record it live, so I've recorded it and posted it here.
The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook: The Most Egregious Sins on Social Media Sites, Exposed
Here are some egregious sins that you must not perform on social media sites. Avoid these violations and learn how to manage and maintain online relationships on a variety of popular social media sites.
Dos and don'ts for mixing work, social networks
Spencer's modern dilemma is becoming more common throughout the world, experts say, as friendships with co-workers extend to our lives spent online after work hours.
Is Twitter a fad or the dawn of a new era?
Twitter is surpassing one of the most established publications in the world, eliminating the need for feed readers, providing reliable communication during an outage for one of the biggest cellular service providers, and even spreading the gospel.
This Messaging Fragmentation is Crazy
If one of these is the only way to reach somebody I need to reach, then I'll use it. But these are too many messaging systems, and they are becoming a productivity drain.
All in the Facebook family: older generations join social networks
While online social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are known hang-outs for younger adults and teenagers, older generations in recent months have been taking to the medium at a faster rate than any other age group, according to industry reports.
Is Facebook a Cult?
A theory: Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. Maybe all social networking services are trying to do that - but the way Facebook is going about it feels particularly cult-like.
200 Million Strong | Facebook
We will welcome our 200 millionth active user to Facebook some time today, and I want to take this opportunity to describe what this means to us and what we hope it can mean for everyone using Facebook.
GROU.PS :: connects obsessively!
GROU.PS is a platform for social groups to get together. Use it for any purpose. Choose your template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc).
Facebook: To Friend or Not to Friend?
As students continue to use Facebook to connect and communicate in increasing numbers, it has also become common for faculty members to consider the use of this social networking site to facilitate interaction in educational contexts. One of the perennial questions that arises is whether faculty should accept Facebook "friend requests" from students.
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