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Facebook Manners And You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROYzrm5SBM |
 
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SayWire ... Social Network Platform for Schools
https://saywire.com/ SayWire ... Social Network Platform for Schools Saywire offers a complete suite of communication and collaboration tools including many popular Web 2.0 features. Planning, collaboration, personalized learning and communication are at your fingertips. Students improve critical thinking and real-world skills for the 21st century. Whether working from across the hall or across the country, Saywire protects your students in a locked down environment built specifically for education with no public access and no spam. Free trial .... then paid subscription service |
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Rafi.ki
http://rafi.ki/ Rafi.ki On Rafi.ki you can easily find partners from more than 1300 schools from more than 100 countries. We have a dedicated team of facilitators who will help you work with your existing partners or find new ones. With years of linking experience, we will advise you about obtaining funding for exchanges, applying for the International School Award and making the most of your links. Using Rafi.ki you can interact safely with students and teachers across the world through video and audio conferencing, email, instant messaging, and forums. In addition, Rafi.ki contains an easy to use web design tool helping you and your students create interactive web pages about yourselves, your school and your work. |
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Social Media Count
http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/ |
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Social Media Governance
http://socialmediagovernance.com/ Social Media Governance Including 30+ social media policies for governments. |
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GROU.PS .. create your own hosted Social Network
http://grou.ps/ GROU.PS is a social applications platform that gives you all the tools you need to keep your online community connected. More formally, we call our product a social groupware - some also call it DIY social network, or white label social network. But technically speaking, we prefer the term social operating system to describe what we do here. GROU.PS gives you a bunch of modules that you choose from and mash up very easily! You can enrich your site with blocks too; blocks allow you to copy/paste 3rd party widgets into your site. Don't forget, you can create your own group in under 5 minutes! Start now! GROU.PS comes with no branding and no ads! |
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6 Facebook Visualizations
http://mashable.com/2009/08/21/gorgeous-facebook-visualizations/ 6 Facebook Visualizations You don’t have to stop at merely watching. Some of the visualizations on the list come with tools that you can use to create beautiful Facebook visualizations of your own with very little effort. |
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Social Media Stats Visualized .. video
http://mashable.com/2009/08/14/social-media-stats-visualized/ Social Media Stats Visualized .. video |
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10 ways to stay out of trouble
http://tr.im/shkW 10 ways to stay out of trouble when you post to social networking sites The head of British foreign intelligence recently demonstrated that anyone can suffer potentially embarrassing or damaging revelations through social networking activity - and even the most mundane and seemingly benign tweets and status updates can have far-reaching consequences. Deb Shinder explains why you should watch your step. |
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Glubble
http://www.glubble.com Glubble is an online activity center for families with children under 12. Giving parents and their kids a new way to play, share, discover and learn, Glubble turns the Internet from a personal activity into an experience for the entire family. Glubble ensures a safe environment for kids to enjoy the Internet because parents can pre-approve all the sites their children visit. |
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Open Source Social Networking Software
http://vivalogo.com/vl-resources/open-source-social-networking-software.htm 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software |
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Blellow
http://www.blellow.com/ Blellow. Blellow is a social network allowing freelancers and professionals to collaborate, find work, and solve problems through a friendly, familiar micro-blog interface by answering the question: “What are you working on?” A bit like Twitter but with threaded discussion and groups and ... |
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LearnCentral
http://www.learncentral.org/ LearnCentral is a social learning network for education. More than a social network or learning community, LearnCentral is an open collaborative environment for those who are passionate about teaching and learning. In collaboration with Elluminate ... the webinar online application. |
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Webinar on Social Networking and Ning
http://tinyurl.com/anjw3b Webinar on Social Networking and Ning Archive of the webinar held online February 2009 ... with a strong emphasis on the use of Ning in education. |
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Facebook for Parents
http://facebookforparents.org/ Facebook for Parents Parents Need to Understand Facebook To help kids reach their full potential, parents today must know about Facebook. That’s the purpose of this website. Starting now, parents can enroll in a free course at Stanford to learn more about Facebook. Parents can also sign up for a free newsletter about Facebook, created especially for parents with kids under 18 using the service. |
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Evaluating social networking services : checklist
http://www.digizen.org/socialnetworking/checklist.aspx Evaluating social networking services : checklist The following guide is designed to accompany the social networking services evaluation chart. This checklist is designed to help you review sites to see whether they meet your needs as an educator (perhaps with a specific learning and teaching aim or project in mind), parent, or even as a potential site member. Currently, most UK school networks block access to many social networking services. However, there are many reasons why educators may explore social networking sites. Educators may be interested in .... |
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Young People and Social Networking Services (Report)
http://www.digizen.org/socialnetworking/ Young People and Social Networking Services A Childnet International Research Report The project is designed to investigate how social networking services can and are being used to support personalised formal and informal learning by young people in schools and colleges. In Evaluating social networking services, this report also describes how to use a toolkit – a social networking evaluation chart covering six different social networking services, and an accompanying checklist, which are available to download from the Digizen website: www.digizen.org/socialnetworking/checklist.aspx |
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My Year Book
http://www.myyearbook.com Let's face it, friendster gets boring, and myspace is creepy. myYearbook would be the only community of people worth going to. It would have every high school, every college, every graduate school, every summer program, every employer, everyone. And it would connect everyone to everyone like never before. |
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Safe Social Learning Networks for Children
http://www.intuitivemedia.com/np.html Safe Social Learning Networks for Children Safe Social Learning Networks |
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The Top 20 Social Networks of 2008
http://mashable.com/2009/01/23/most-popular-social-networks-2008/ The Top 20 Social Networks of 2008 Now, we’ve got the final numbers from 2008, and with them, a look at the rankings and trends within the top 20 social networks, according to Nielsen Online. |
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Gather
http://www.gather.com/ Since launching in 2005, Gather has become one of the social networks for the over-30 crowd. That's because Gather is social networking grown up -- the place where adults go to keep up with the people, conversations, and moments that matter. |
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Mixxt
http://www.mixxt.com Start your own free Social Network in a few mins, incl. forums, images, videos, wikis, files, activity streams, group messaging and lots more. Languages: English, German, Polish and Turkish. Free, enterprise versions available. |
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BT Web 2.0 adoption case study (Social Networks)
http://tinyurl.com/4jpcz3 BT Web 2.0 adoption case study (Social Networks) While some companies begin the impossible task of shutting out social media tools, at BT we have just completed a web ‘liberalisation’ project to make sure all our employees can access social media sites. Why? Because we see social media tools as a huge opportunity to transform the way our employees interact with each other, with ‘the company’, and with our customers, partners and suppliers. When over 4,000 of your employees voluntarily join a Facebook group called ‘BT’, it’s time to take note. |
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Odnoklassniki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odnoklassniki.ru Odnoklassniki .. a social network service for classmates and old friends reunion popular in Russia and in the former Soviet Union. It was created by Albert Popkov in March 2006 |
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nasza-klasa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasza-klasa.pl nasza-klasa ... a large social networking platform for people in Poland, a social networking site bringing together a school's students and alumni. |
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What is Social Networking?
http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/ What is Social Networking? Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in schools or in the workplace, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other internet users to develop friendships and business relationships, too. |
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LL4Schools: e-Safe Social Networking for Schools
http://www.ll4schools.co.uk/ LL4Schools: e-Safe Social Networking for Schools ... Subscription service, annual fee LL4Schools is a safe social network designed for schools using the award winning Elgg platform. It includes a range of Web2.0 tools (blogs, forums, wikis, file storage, RSS, social bookmarks, etc.), the ability to create communities of users and, of course, have "friends". Unlike your school VLE/MLE (Virtual Learning Environment or Managed Learning Environment) LL4Schools seeks to provide a single social network with members from a wide range of schools: this is not a replacement for your VLE/MLE but complementary to it. It could form part of your Learning Platform provision giving each student an online space and blogging area. Elgg (the award winning Open Source tool on which LL4Schools is based) is rapidly evolving and we will adding new features and upgrading our installation as they become available. |
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Kids Online Networking
http://www.alternet.org/story/46766/?page=entire What Adults Should Know About Kids Online Networking Think you've read everything about Myspace? Think again. Social network expert danah boyd breaks it down. |
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Socialmedian
http://www.socialmedian.com/ Socialmedian is a social news network that connects people with personalized news and information. socialmedian enables you to easily keep up-to-date on the news that matters to you and to people who share your interests. socialmedian is all about personalized news - helping people get the news that matters most to them on any number of topics from any number of sources. Our hunch is that people with common topical interests can help each other filter and discover personally relevant news. |
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Kaixin001: China Social Network
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/16/kaixin001-chinas-apple-of-social-networks/ Kaixin001: China Social Network One of China’s fastest growing social network having amassed a staggering 7.5 million users in the first 5 months since it launched in May 2008. Compared with rival incumbent Xiaonei, which targets college students, Kaixin001 appeals to white-collar office workers with a simpler UI that is more intuitive to older audiences. This is a significant detail in China, where one in four college students does not own a computer and can only access Xiaonei by walking to an Internet Cafe and paying by the minute. White-collar office workers by comparison, spend an average of nine hours a day in front of the computer. |
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Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/24/9-ways-to-build-your-own-social-network/ Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network There are roughly three types of companies that have emerged in the space of white label social networking. The first provides hosted, do-it-yourself solutions with which customers can largely point and click their way to a brand new social network. Companies of this type interact minimally with their customers and rather focus on providing the network-building tools that they demand. |
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Webpages as Graphs
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/ Webpages as Graphs .... see who is linked to a particular webpage or e.g. Blog. Nice graphic presentation ... but a pity the nodes are not live hyperlinks |
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Webjam
http://www.webjam.com/ Webjam Lets Organizations Create Their Own Niche Communities Your own social network, to connect and share content with your friends and communities. An easy-to-use, safe and friendly environment where you control privacy, memberships and co-editing. Webjam is the solution of choice for individuals, families, clubs, charities and casual & professional groups. |
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Grockit ... Grockit is Learning 2.0
http://www.grockit.com/ Grockit ... Grockit is Learning 2.0 Grockit is about questioning together. To this end, we are developing an online learning game where people can teach each other. Grockit is an online, interactive learning tool that brings students together to answer quizzes with other. . Grockit is creating a MMOLG (Massively Multi Player Online Learning Game) where people can connect to learn from each other. Grockit features a chat room where students can talk with one another as they deliberate over questions. They can also award each other points for their insight. Our organization is about the space where learning and technology meet. By combining our years of experience as teachers and developers, we are creating a place where learners can meet other learners. |
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Ping : Status Updating Service
http://mashable.com/2008/09/02/pingfm-open-beta/ Status Updating Service Ping.fm, the service that lets you update several social networking profiles - Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster Friendster among many others - from one place? Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap. |
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Social Networks in Education
http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/ Social Networks in Education A listing of social networks used in educational environments. |
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TotSpot
http://totspot.com TotSpot is a place for parents to publish a page about their kids and share with family and friends. It's part online babybook, parent journal, and social network. Childhood is an ongoing story and TotSpot is the first site that makes it super easy for parents to securely share their kid's story with friends and family. |
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Usage of social media in corporations .. Report
http://www.umassd.edu/cmr/studiesresearch/blogstudy5.cfm Social Media in the Inc. 500: The First Longitudinal Study The new study compares corporate adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the Inc. 500, a list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies compiled annually by Inc. Magazine. |
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Shamblesguru Social Networks : Video Picks on YouTube
http://tr.im/n1Sd |
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, Scholarship
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research. |
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Social networking: Overprotection or ...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/link/story/0,,2277968,00.html Alternative social networking: Overprotection or necessary control? Social networking sites, where users post personal profiles, upload favourite music and video, chat and blog, are just the latest technological innovation to send shivers down parental spines, as the Byron review reflects. In the UK 49% of eight- to 17-year-olds are believed to have a profile on a social networking site, according to Ofcom. Besides the risk of making "online friends" with strangers who turn out to be adults and anything but friendly, social networking sites may offer a platform for cyber-bullying and intense exposure to advertising. But the review also cites evidence that social networking sites like MySpace and Bebo may play a useful role in offering teenagers a place to "test various adolescent behaviours or to take 'safe' risks". |
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Studeous : connecting your classroom
http://www.studeous.com/ Studeous : connecting your classroom We created Studeous because we belive that education is priceless. The Learning Management Systems (LMS) currently available are poorly designed and too expensive. The open source systems are too confusing and difficult to maintain. Finally, an easy to use, intuitive, and safe LMS is available to the academic world for free. Studeous is completely free. We don't care if your entire school runs on it, we will never charge you The only information people can see is your name and email address, and you can even make your email address private if you want. As a teacher, you have total control over who has access to your class page and any content you post. You can remove your account at any time. |
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Insoshi social networking platform
http://insoshi.com/ Insoshi social networking platform Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product! Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code from our GitHub repository and make your own social network. Then stay in touch by joining the Insoshi developer site—which is powered by Insoshi! |
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Review of Social Aggregators / LIfestreaming Services
http://www.fabricoffolly.com/2008/03/review-of-social-aggregators.html Review of Social Aggregators / LIfestreaming Services The difficulty in keeping track of one's activity on an increasing number of social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) has, somewhat ironically, spawned a whole new breed of site - the social aggregator (a.k.a. lifestreaming services). Here is a review of 15 products currently in this space. I've tried to keep the focus on aggregators, rather than services which have more of an emphasis on inputting new content (e.g. microblogging platforms such as Tumblr or Jaiku) although the lines are clearly blurred. |
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Social media aggregators
http://tinyurl.com/66hol6 Social media aggregators are web sites which amass what you do on social networks or websites and centralize it all in one location. These aggregators enable lifestreaming, which is a simply the publication and sharing of your daily activities in continuous sessions. These social lifestreams allow you to keep track of what your friends or other people are doing online. In other words, they are tools you can use to observe the activity of others on various social sites or allow others to follow what you’re doing all around the web. One of the most popular social aggregators is called Friendfeed and it appears to be the most widely used service amongst many other lifestreaming services. www.doshdosh.com/benefits-of-social-lifestreaming-and-friendfeed |
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Ofcom research identifies social networking profiles
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2008/04/nr_20080402 Ofcom research identifies social networking profiles Nearly half of all children who have access to the internet have their own personal profile on a social networking site, according to extensive qualitative and quantitative Ofcom research published today. The report reveals just how quickly social networking sites have become a part of Britons' lives. As well as widespread use amongst 8-17 year olds (49 per cent of internet users in that age group), the report also reveals that over a fifth (22 per cent) of adult internet users aged 16+ have their own online profile. |
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Testing Horace Mann
http://nymag.com/news/features/45592/ Testing Horace Mann When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the school’s board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private, like a diary? Is big money distorting private-school education? And what values is a school supposed to teach? |
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Friend Project
http://www.friendproject.com/ Friend Project is an online social networking website very similar to MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, and many other social networks but takes some of the features from many of these sites to combine into 1 site. It is popular to mostly kids 15 years of age to young adults in the higher twenties but is open to membership for any ages. Friend Project allows users to create online profiles and interact with each other using profile comments, chatrooms, discussion forums, and messaging (interface similar to Email) and so much more, |
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KickApps
http://www.kickapps.com/ The KickApps hosted, white-label platform puts social media and online video functionality directly into the hands of every web publisher who aspires to be a media mogul and turns every web designer and developer into a social media rockstar! With KickApps, it's now easier than ever for web publishers to leverage the power of social and rich media experiences on their websites to drive audience growth and engagement. Our platform features a broad range of applications, including social networking, user-generated content, online video players and viral Widgets, that are tightly integrated with media and community management Additionally, KickApps is highly customizable and flexible for seamless integration with any website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and APIs. |
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CafeMom
http://www.cafemom.com/ Launched in late 2006, CafeMom is already the largest social-networking/community site for moms AND the leading women's/parenting site on the internet - passing mainstream sites like ivillage, babycenter, and Marthastewart on the engagement metrics that matter most. With more than 120MM pageviews / month and 6MM visits / month, CafeMom was ranked the #8 fastest-growing site in 2007 by compete.com and has recently won awards from Mashable and AlwaysOn as one of the leading social networking sites. |
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