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Social Media Libraries for Flash

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The complete list can be found at Twitter API wiki. This library hasn’t been updated since March 2009 and hence doesn’t include support for the new Twitter features like lists and retweet. There are many Flash/ActionScript libraries available for this purpose, some of which are listed below.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 4

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50 Ways To Use Wikis For A More Collaborative And Interactive Classroom. Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. This article shares how you can put wikis to work in your classroom. Advertising in social games has increased by 60 percent since 2009. Read it here.

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Microlearning – A Paradigm Shift In The Way We Learn

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This blog post was published way back in 2009, so I’ll include a quick summary. I was reading a blog-post by Amit Garg on the Upside Learning blog which led me to agree that Microlearning is the future of workplace learning.

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Retiring Workforce? Use Your LMS To Capture Their Knowledge

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In 2009-10, mining had the highest capital expenditure ($45.6 We had written about the unharnessed potential of LMS Wikis sometime back on our blog. Australia's economy is thriving. A mining boom fueled by demand from China has led to a shortage of skilled workers and a 5% jobless rate in this country ( Source ).

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How the Fastest Growing Companies are Using Social Media

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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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UpsideLMS Is One Of The Five Emerging Learning Managements To Watch!

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Further, while the system’s wiki resembles Wikipedia, the discussions section looks similar to LinkedIn group discussion pages. They also can see their friends’ tweets from outside the system. The LMS also includes a WordPress blog that learners can post to, and postings can be viewed both from within and outside the system.