Posts under ‘Resources - Social Networks’

Via the BBC
Companies should not dismiss staff who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work as merely time-wasters, a Demos study suggests.
Attempts to control employees’ use of such software could damage firms in the long run by limiting the way staff communicate, the think tank said.
Social networking can encourage employees to [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 28, 2008 - 09:00AM CT
“Professional” social networks—that is, the ones you’re supposed to be using for reasons other than hooking up or playing Scrabble with old classmates—are making steady popularity gains, as of late. Sites like LinkedIn and Xing have grown this year, along with other social [...]

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October 29, 2008 - 4:21 am PDT - by Pete Cashmore

Streamy, a gorgeous online news reader, is making a comeback for the FriendFeed, Twitter and Facebook era.
Streamy’s new mantra: cutting through the online noise with personalized recommendations, groups and custom filters. It’s a single view for all your [...]

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October 26, 2008 - 1:18 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski 3 Comments

Perhaps the stereotype holds no ground anymore, but I’ll venture to guess it’s still not often that you’ll see something big roll out for Canada that can’t be used by an American audience. Yet, such is the [...]

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By David Chartier | Published: October 26, 2008 - 03:30PM CT

The positive merits of social networking have been leveraged in a multitude of ways by consumers, businesses, and other organizations for some time. Now, in light of tightening budgets, a VP analyst at Gartner says it’s time for government departments to move past [...]

Viz Mashable

October 23, 2008 - 2:58 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder 4 Comments

Addictions expert David Smallwood claims that Facebook can fuel insecurity in users, can cause something he calls “friendship addiction,” and should generally be avoided by people with addiction issues.
“Acquisition of friends is like any other fix but [...]

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October 17, 2008 - 1:18 pm PDT - by Mike Fruchter

It is safe to say that anyone reading this probably has one or several accounts on any of the major social networking sites. The same can be said about our family and friends. All of these sites pretty much [...]

Via Media Shift
by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, October 15, 2008
It’s not just students who can get into difficulty for school-related blogging.
In a recent case, a federal court rejected a challenge brought by a non-tenured teacher when the public school at which he taught decided not to renew his contract. The school had accused the teacher of overly familiar [...]

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October 13, 2008 - 12:36 pm PDT - by Tom Smith6 Comments

For the last two years I have been running global research atUniversal McCann that tracks the usage of social media. The results of which have clearly demonstrated the massive growth in usage that is occurring across the world.
The most recent report interviewed 17,000 people in [...]

Via Tech Crunch

by Mark Hendrickson on October 13, 2008

Meebo has disclosed that 11 more sites have committed themselves to integrating Community IM, its forthcoming out-of-the-box service that adds Facebook Chat-like instant messaging capabilities to the bottom of any website.
The newest enlistements include Bleacher Report, Dhingana, Fanpop, GlobalGrind, IBeatYou, OrangeShark, PerfSpot, UGAME.net, Yaari, Zinch, and Zorpia. These join a set of [...]