Tag: Social Networking
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Relationships important for success
While this article by Bergin & Bergin (Attachment in the Classroom – DOI: 10.1007/s10648-009-9104-0) talks about students in k-12 and their attachment to parents and teachers as an important part of what it takes to succeed, it might be logical to extend what they say into higher ed as well and perhaps using social networking…
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Facebook is now allowing custom sharing
It looks like people will be able to choose how their status updates and other published items are shared. This only makes sense after the Vanity URL move because right now, it makes no sense to send people to your URL unless it is to make it easier to find you. With this, you now…
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If we want kids to grow up digital, it might mean
… that, like the Millennials in this report (RWW) who are often successfully dictating to their IT departments what type of technology they want to make use of to communicate for business (often in ways that are similar to those used for pleasure). This new generation of employee seems to have little regard to privacy…
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Generations of Media, SNS and the Ballot
I last wrote about Shirky in November, and now I’ve spotted a TED talk from his as well. This one was just recorded and addresses how social networks are changing patterns of communication and how those networks are perhaps able to if not shake the Earth, at least report it. Right now, Twitter is going…
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So Mr Jones, you broke Facebook did you?
Well, it was only a matter of time before all the wisenhiemers who chose geeky/hacky usernames would break something. Now it looks like whoever went for something.aspx has broken something within Facebook. Yesterday, one of the guys in the office (a Mr. T Jones) chose 500.aspx as his URL. Everything worked, until last night when…