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

Dashe & Thomson

Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal. 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. Properly d.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

A couple of months back I made the decision to delete my LinkedIn profile, a decision greeted with incredulity from all quarters. By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. You idiot!”

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

A couple of months back I made the decision to delete my LinkedIn profile, a decision greeted with incredulity from all quarters. By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. You idiot!”

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Social Network = Social Class?

Kapp Notes

Anna Owens says "MySpace has one population, Facebook has another." A study by market research firm Nielsen Claritas found that people in more affluent demographics are 25 percent more likely to be found friending on Facebook , while the less affluent are 37 percent more likely to connect on MySpace.

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Using Content Distribution to Market E-Learning

LearnDash

Let’s say the website goes the way of MySpace. If you’re still set on using a platform like Medium or LinkedIn to expand your audience, there is a way to do it effectively for e-learning. On the other hand, platforms like Medium or published content on LinkedIn encourage professional expertise. Here’s how it goes: 1.

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How the Fastest Growing Companies are Using Social Media

Upside Learning

In 2009, several new tools were added including the popular microblogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace. In order to maintain the integrity of all comparisons, all those tools studied in the first two studies were included in this followup research.

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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). Social networking is driven by the desire of people to “demonstrate themselves&#. Predicts a tiered structure will develop. Owned by major companies. Mass subscription with low/no barriers to entry. Google Sites for the wiki.