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What a great term: social loafing. I've never heard it before, but upon reading this article, realised I've experienced it often enough. Thanks.

It's the first time i've heard of this term also. Very different from the term lurking. A little lengthy but worth the skim over.

Kaine Very interesting article. I think it exists. I have perceived social loafing, definitely in my past online courses or at work.But I am not sure if that is true or not. What if I was also perceived as social loafer at the same time by others? Who is right then? Thanks for sharing it. I read and also bookmarked it. Ilona

Every gardner knows that trees benefit from pruning . How about social networks? Can our networks can get cluttered?

Wow where do we go from here...its like a timeline of my social life, lol.

Vinyl > 8-track > Cassette > Compact Disc > MiniDisc > mp3

Lots to ponder in this article. First and foremost is my great surprise and delight to see a government policy document written in plain language that ordinary Canadians could read. We in the literacy community have been beating that drum with government for many years, usually to no avail. But besides that... I was struck by "Governance by Wiki". How does government respond to social media? Does a Twitter mob get to rule and change government policy by their numbers and shrillness? How does government consider the views of those who are not social media savvy, who don't blog, podcast and Tweet but who are still citizens who voices matter? Just wondering about these and other important issues raised in this article.

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This is a very well done diagram of social networks from the New Testament

Free e-book that may be worth looking into. "The data in this ebook is collected from the world's best brands and major data partners."

International fostering of social connectivity

This is an ancient format! With new wording .

I tend to over tweet although i find it a good way to share messages or opinions...although why do people add and delete all the time. With twitter taking over the social media networking world, its hard not to get caught up.

Engineers from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have created an open-source plug-in that they hope proves their worst fears about Google's decision to fold its social results into search - that Google is moving away from its mission to be a neutral directory of the Internet.

This article was recommended by social media guru Beth Kantor on her Facebook page. In my experience, if it is from Beth, it's great! It may be helpful in our blog set up and posting.