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Tips for Close Reading: 1- Select Short Passages 2- Make Your Focus Intense 3- Extend Focus Through the Text 4- Students Markup the Text as They Read 5- Encourage Exploratory Discussions 6- Encourage Rereading 7- Read in Every Subject Area 8- Annotate the Text 9- Use Close Reading Marks Independently 10- Use Close Reading Strategically in Small Bites

A few weeks ago, I wrote that your organization should have a social media policy, and one of the things I heard among all the great comments was: "Okay, but what should it say?" There are generally two approaches to social media policy making. Some organizations handle social media in an evolutionary way. Chad Houghton, the director of e-media and business development at the Society for Human Resource Management, told me that he thinks, "it might be beneficial not to create some arbitrary rules without first seeing where the opportunities and risks really are." Other organizations, meanwhile, feel more comfortable establishing a clear policy from the outset. IBM, for example, has published their social media guidelines publicly for anyone to read. It's a great policy, though rather long. Whether you're writing your social media policy from the get-go, or letting it develop organically in reaction to situations as they arise, here are 10 things you should definitely consider. These 10 tips will help you steer clear of pitfalls and allow you to focus on what's important: engaging the customer.