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How the Fastest Growing Companies are Using Social Media

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In 2009, several new tools were added including the popular microblogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace. Twitter has arrived with a bang in 2009. Related posts: The Social Media and Mobile Computing Explosion When should you use Informal Learning?

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Networked noughties 2006-2009

Learning with e's

In September 2006, Facebook came late to the party, but within a short time (March 2008) it overhauled Myspace as the world's favourite social networking tool. In June 2009, the UK Government published its Digital Britain Report , committing the UK to a universal broadband provision by 2012.

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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

Tribal identity in the age of the Web transcends ethnicity, traditional cultural expectations and geography (Wheeler, 2009). Membership of digital clans can be volatile, as has been demonstrated in the sharp rise and decline of once popular tribal online spaces such as Bebo or MySpace.

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Faceworking

Learning with e's

Should we try to use social networking services such as Facebook and Myspace as serious educational tools, or should they remain the domain of informal chat and backstage antics? Selwyn N (2009) Faceworking: exploring students' education-related use of Facebook , Learning, Media and Technology, 34 (2), 157-174.

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Noughties. but nice

Learning with e's

If we time jumped from then to 2009, the way we now communicate, learn, search for information, share content and consume entertainment would be unrecognisable. Social networking sites: Facebook (2006), Myspace (2003), Bebo (2005), LinkedIn (2003) and other sites together have changed the face of social networking for ever.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts. MySpace is seen as being too "creepy". MySpace is seen as being too "creepy". All women.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Blogging Dinner Table

Learning Visions

Monday, June 25, 2007 The Blogging Dinner Table Brian Grenier did an interesting informal survey of the edublogosphere , the results of which are quite interesting. I think the answer is that theyre all on FaceBook and MySpace. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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