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This infographic / handout / sheet is filled with tips for all social networks. Not just focusing on particular services, I appreciate this guide's refreshing look at how to properly use social media even when you're super busy. Plus, Ernie gives a few examples of people effectively leveraging social networks even though they're busy doing lots of other stuff. Sound familiar?

International Centre for Guidance Studies

"Journalists from traditional media are used to going on courses and reading works like McNae's Essential Law for Journalists. Those regularly covering court may have another level of knowledge. But the final resort is always to the expert advice of a media lawyer. Here are some of the categories of law on which social media users in England and Wales are coming unstuck."

A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and  Higher Education in the UK to Support Student Learning and  Engagement

Pedagogical designs involving social media and implications for students, educators, institutions and researchers, Minocha, Shailey, 2012

Case Studies - A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to Support Student Learning and Engagement

Article by Neil Selwyn about social media in higher education

JISC Legal information, August 2011

The JISC funded Digitally Ready project, part of the Developing Digital Literacies programme has enabled us to further the work done on the Eduserv funded This Is Me project.  By bringing the original project outputs in to University of Reading ownership, the materials are more sustainable, and set in the twin contexts of Digital Literacy and Employability. A drinks coaster, for all your Digital Identity needs The This Is Me project looked at ways of helping people to learn more about what makes up their Digital Identity (DI) and at ways of developing and enhancing it.  "Digital Identity" is made up of multiple parts - it isn't just what we have published about ourself on the web, but also includes things other people have published about us.

A guide for academics and researchers

How to use Storify in education

Good article crowdsourcing ideas for using Storify in education

Ithaka S+R, Jisc, RLUK "In 2012, Ithaka S+R partnered with Jisc and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) to  survey academics in the UK higher education sector in order to learn about their  attitudes and practices related to research, teaching, and communicating.  In addition to the findings reported here, this project will provide a national  dataset that can be analyzed by discipline, institution type, and other  demographic characteristics, compared with findings from a parallel USbased project, and tracked for changes over time."