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Friday, September 3, 2010
Social Networking: Social Networking is increasingly prevalent in children's lives. Facebook is now the favorite website among tween (8-11) boys and teen (12-15) girls. Tween's playing a video game. Most of them do on a regular basis. That's a big increase.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
am an avid user of Facebook. use it so frequently that I do not realize how challenging and difficult it is to use Facebook. The first time I visited Facebook, I was just too confused and apprehensive to use it. knew it was a social networking site similar to Orkut. Let’s begin with the basic question.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
I’ve heard of SNAPP before – &# software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies&# – but decided to play around with it today. The analysis isn’t very comprehensive, but does provide frequency of posts and social network structure.
 

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Introduction to Social Networking. Online social networks facilitate connections between people based on shared interests, values, membership in particular groups (i.e., They make it easier for people to find and communicate with individuals who are in their networks using the Web as the interface.
The same applies of course to any other social networking tool, but unlike Facebook for example, Twitter contains very few distractions. For me, the value of Twitter is in tapping into its social critical mass. Tags: connections social networking Twitter FaceBook some people ask. You too?
I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. Hasn't eBay had social networking features for a long time? all have a social networking aspect to them? Quite simply, social networking sites require a high level of commitment.
This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. How do social networks relate to formal learning?
Does your employer / Institution have a policy for the accepted use, by staff, for how they can use Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, SlideShare, YouTube, WordPress, etc)? Here a are a few I found; DePaul University – Social Media Guidelines: Social Media Working Group. SAP -  Social Media Guidelines 2009.
Our office has been receiving numerous requests to help incorporate social media tools into a variety of communication and education projects. Our clients want help creating blogs, wikis, collaborative workspaces, and social networks. You can’t mandate that your audience “be social.”. Facebook); the other half shun it.
Are social media and social networks destined to change life behind the firewall ? Avoid the temptation to implement social software tools simply for their own sake. No, not every company needs a Facebook-like company directory. In all the examples, the human networks themselves are nothing new. David.
This presentation should be of particular interest to educators for tips and tricks for using Social Media in education environment (Twitter, Facebook, blog, wiki, social bookmark, etc). SlideShare: Social Networking.
I am seeing and reading so many blog posts and tweets with someone trying to explain what is a Social Network, or what is a PLN/PLE. Which is why I couldn’t resist showing you these Educational Social Media Diagrams from the HubSpot Blog; This first one highlights, for those slightly confused about what exactly is Web 2.0,
Chart shows percentage of teens and tweens and what social networking/Web 2.0 Among teens, that amounts to about 9 hours a week on social networking activities,compared to about 10 hours a week watching TV. Students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education.