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How the Fastest Growing Companies are Using Social Media

Upside Learning

Questions probed the familiarity of respondents with six prominent social media (blogging, podcasting, online video, social networking, message boards and wikis). In 2009, several new tools were added including the popular microblogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace.

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Networked noughties 2006-2009

Learning with e's

and social networks as potentially useful educational tools. Another major player in the world of social networking was birthed the same year. 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.

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The Web 3.0 Social Network

Learning with e's

I couldn't resist re-posting this article which first appeared exactly a year ago, on April 1st 2009. Many of us have unwanted or unused Facebook, Myspace, Flickr or Bebo accounts 'out there' that we haven't visited or done anything with for a very long time. tool that will give you more time by doing your social networking for you.

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Networked noughties 2003-2005

Learning with e's

The launch of one of the first social networking services Friends Reunited in 2000 paved the ways for a welter of new social networking tools which would revolutionise the way people connected, communicated and shared. Myspace was to become the trend setter - within 3 years it had signed up an astounding 100 million users.

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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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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

It is your personal network. Tribal identity in the age of the Web transcends ethnicity, traditional cultural expectations and geography (Wheeler, 2009). Post-industrial society saw the emergence of personal computers, the Web and a global communication network of mobile phones. It is your virtual community.

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Zip it, Block it, Flag it

Learning with e's

80% of children in the UK have encountered unsuitable or harmful content on the Internet (Byron, 2009 - see report link below) and it has usually been down to parents to educate their children about keeping safe on the web - that is until now. Zip it - keep your personal stuff private and think about what you say and do online.