It’s a web-based social network space for teachers and students. Its safe and easy Facebook-like interface allows the class to collaborate, connect, share content, access homework, etc. Afterwards, check out the Edmodo in Action page that showcases several examples on how Edmodo can be useful in Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math classes. There has been a lot of controversy about the appropriateness of teachers 'friending' their students on Facebook. social networking class facebookSo what is it? Edmodo eliminates all this. MORE >>

In a recent post, RWW reports that “In a study of 300 hiring managers andrecruiters, Palo Alto-based social networking monitoring service Repplerreports that 76% of hiring managers look at applicants' Facebook profiles. Anadditional 56% are looking at Twitter, and 48% check out LinkedIn.” The fact that recruiters should be checking out basic infoon social networks makes perfect sense to me. said my career profile is listed on LinkedIn and asked him if he had checkedthat before calling me. Social Networking India Recruitment Recruiters Jobs HR MORE >>

I’ve been reading with interest recent articles and blog posts proclaiming that social practices won’t work in the enterprise. Posts such as ‘ You ready to fail at social networking ’ and the excellent post from Jeevan Joshi  ’4 reasons why employee social learning will fail at work ‘, have really made me think and reflect on the hype surrounding social business and more specifically the rise of social networks / communities within the work environment. Do you want to provide a social space for your people? MORE >>

Social networking sites such as Facebook provide a way to meet both of these goals, however according to a survey  54% of U.S. employers employers ban sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn at work.  Organizations cite many reasons for banning Facebook and other social networking platforms including company privacy, productivity, and network security.  Here’s Argument: “We see stories all the time about Facebook users that divulge private company information or say inappropriate things on their profiles.  MORE >>

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking.  If we separate the human aspect of social networking from the technology, we can learn a lot more about the power of networks – not just from today’s pundits, but from many years of sociological research on the topic. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing.  Blog this! Properly d. MORE >>