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Google Goes Gaming?

Kapp Notes

There have been a number of interesting development in term of Google and social game purchases and game related initiatives. Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games* Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming company Zynga.

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

For those of you that use web-based aggregators like Google Reader but have not yet made room for Tweets, Twitter is an aggregator on steroids. Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal.

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What Millennials Want from Member Education

Association eLearning

I learned some basic html coding when I was just 11 years old because I constantly wanted to update the backgrounds on my NeoPets and MySpace profiles. Share this on Google+. Add this to Google Bookmarks. This is not to say that every Millennial had the same experiences I did. Share your thoughts below. Share this on Facebook.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Right now, this is “Tier 1″ Proprietary with some customization (like Facebook & MySpace). Google Sites for the wiki. Social networking is driven by the desire of people to “demonstrate themselves&#. Predicts a tiered structure will develop. Owned by major companies. Tools Used: Used Weblog.com to create the blog.

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Tools Used

Clark Quinn

MySpace is clearly behind in the corporate eLearning world. delicious, Picassa, Ning, Google Docs/Google Apps, Second Life, Blogger, iGoogle, orkut, FriendFeed, Internal workplace community, PBWiki, Xing, Digg, Friendster (really?), Facebook use is higher than I would have thought.

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Social Media Marketing: Putting The Pieces Together

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I had a MySpace back when you could only have eight top friends. Here's a bit of what I learned about social media marketing: Companies should have Facebook pages, but since it's the Facebook fan pages that are indexed and updated in real-time by Google, it is preferable to make a fan page for your business rather than a profile.

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"Is Stupid Making Us Google?" (The New Atlantis)

Mark Oehlert

( story link ) This is an additional article that has spun off from Nick Carr's piece in The Atlantic Monthly, Is Google Making Us Stupid? (my Locating both it and the author's place in a cultural context that has at times attacked the idea of the same "culture" that Bauerlein laments the demise of at the hands of YouTube, MySpace, etc.

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