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facebook Vs Twitter: Long free Summary of paid for study.How facebook is better for marketing and marketers. Check out when you can.

"The resources listed in this catalogue provide a wealth of information on how to effectively engage local people, increase active citizenship and social responsibility, all of which lead to a greater sense of identity, wellbeing and belonging in the community. This online guide allows you to peruse our resources and explore our learning and expertise. In sharing our work, we hope to champion good practice in empowerment across London, supporting local services, voluntary and community groups and local people to work together to achieve better outcomes for all. Resources are grouped into four types of report: * RESEARCH REPORTS * EVENTS REPORTS * CASE STUDIES * GUIDANCE TOOLS"

Tendering case study

Exploring how users/customers make meaning of their world and how they attempt to create meaning and identity through artifacts (and their itneraction with these) can deliver much insight - if tapped. Ethnographic studies do this. CLP is instinctively scratching the surface with this. This link takes you to a primer.

For centuries, folk theory has promoted the idea that positive emotions are good for your health. Accumulating empirical evidence is providing support for this anecdotal wisdom. We use the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001) as a framework to demonstrate that positive emotions contribute to psychological and physical well-being via more effective coping. We argue that the health benefits advanced by positive emotions may be instantiated in certain traits that are characterized by the experience of positive emotion. Towards this end, we examine individual differences in psychological resilience (the ability to bounce back from negative events by using positive emotions to cope) and positive emotional granularity (the tendency to represent experiences of positive emotion with precision and specificity). Individual differences in these traits are examined in two studies, one using psychophysiological evidence, the second using evidence from experience sampling, to demonstrate that positive emotions play a crucial role in enhancing coping resources in the face of negative events. Implications for research on coping and health are discussed.

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This position statement focuses on the critical role of media literacy in the social studies curriculum. The statement addresses the following questions. First, why and how has media literacy taken on a significantly more important role in preparing citizens for democratic life? Second, how is media literacy defined, and what are some of its essential concepts? Finally, what is required to teach media literacy and what are some examples of classroom activities?

Eliz, this one is for you links to Guerilla Marketing - useful for angels and networks we are trying to build. We can link this to a persona - remind me ;0)

If you're part of a nonprofit organisation, this site is for you. Whatever your organisation or role within it, if you want information, to update your skills or to talk to others, you've come to the right place. Opportunities to highlight your expertise by writing case studies!

How can digital and the internet be integrated into your overall learner/service user experience? Would you use it to persuade? to re-assure? to provide tips? to share rich service user knowledge? - check this case study of the shoe-trainer biz to get your creative juices flowing ;-D

learning from web information seeking studies: some suggestions for LIS practitioners.

check out how switched on this lot are with the website, particularly the fact that they have a projects section with case studies ;o) enjoy

As our understanding of the brain has improved, however, it has become clear that a more accurate model depends on how these modules are wired together in circuits. A technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) gives us a tool to probe the nature of those connections. A recent study suggests, for instance, that the more a person seeks out new experiences and relies on social approval, the stronger his or her wiring is among brain areas involved in reward, emotion and decision making.