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After Google+ entered the social networking scene not so long ago, the number of online distractions hasn't really decreased. At the same time, innovations and smarter solutions to handle your actions online have fortunately continued to thrive too. Instead of the usual to-do lists, news readers, or sharing tools, they tackle things in new and more helpful ways. What's most important for me, is that they slot right into my workflow, and allow me to become more efficient without changing my behavior. A few apps recently managed to do so brilliantly. Here are my favorite new tools to help you stay focused and use the Web more innovatively.

I started to collect a Google+ circle of women-only (aptly named 'Women of G+') and the idea of connecting with early adopter women in a new social networking platform is growing larger in my mind by the minute. I find it stimulating and refreshing to have a list of highly intelligent women on G+ to read every morning over coffee. Thanks for letting me take a peek into your brilliant minds.

"Published on 4 Feb 2014 10 years after Mark Zuckerberg built "Thefacebook" in his Harvard dorm, Facebook has more users, more revenue, and arguably more impact than it ever has. How has the social network changed (and changed us) over the years? "

Gyan Finder offers a social networking platform exclusively for Trainers and Learners. We provide complete support and required space to trainers to exhibit their training skills and entrust direct in

We compare Yammer vs Slack in an easy way of understanding the difference between Yammer and Slack is by looking at their taglines: Yammer is "the enterprise social network", and Slack is "a messaging app for teams".Yammer and Slack are two extremely effective tools for communicating between teammates. Though teams are segregated as per project, client, remote location, or based on geographical area, these collaboration tools keep them connected.

Buy Twitter Accounts Introduction Users of the social networking site Twitter send and receive 140-character messages known as "tweets." The limited 140-character limit on Twitter is what makes it unique from other social networks like Facebook and Tumblr, which enable users to send messages that are much longer. Hashtags, which are used to organize tweets about related subjects, are another feature of Twitter that are well known. Buy Twitter Accounts What Is a Twitter Accounts? Both personal and professional uses are allowed for Twitter accounts. Individuals can use Twitter to share tidbits of their lives with friends and relatives. Twitter can be used by businesses as a marketing tool to advertise goods and services or to communicate with clients and offer client care. Buy Twitter Accounts If Twitter is new to you, you might be wondering how to create an account. An account on Twitter can be created quickly and easily. We'll walk you through the process of setting up a Twitter account in this article.

"Twitter seems to be here to stay. As one of the most popular ways for teachers, students, and the general public to communicate, it's becoming a must-have tool in almost every teacher's toolbox. However, numerous recent studies have shown that education in general has been slow to adopt social media. In an effort to speed up this adoption process, below you'll find a boatload of resources on the past, present, and future of Twitter in education as well as some helpful guides to using the tool in the classroom. This guide is by no means exhaustive and is meant to be added to on a regular basis. To do that, Edudemic needs your help. Just share your favorite resource(s) on the Edudemic Facebook page and it'll get added to this Ultimate Guide."

BO.LT is a page-sharing platform that lets anyone instantly curate, promote, and share content by copying, editing, commenting on, endorsing, sharing, and socializing on webpages.

This tool could make sharing links with teachers or Twitter or sharing links with students more personalised and collaborative.

New social learning course authoring with emphasis on peer and media enhanced lessons. Interviewed by Steve Hargadon on LearnCentral.org. http://www.learncentral.org/userprofile/blog/80/145900

Dr danah boyd speaks at RMIT about 'Networked Publics' Hear the introduction, full lecture and Q and A session and other Talking Technology podcasts at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/talkingtechnology

"This month, Re/code partner CNBC is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To help commemorate the occasion, the network asked Walt Mossberg to pen this essay on how personal technology has evolved over the past quarter century."

A discussion of Paul Otlet, a Belgian, who created a version of the Internet in the 1930's.

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"Facebook made a startling admission in its earnings announcement this month: it was seeing a "decrease in daily users, specifically among teens". In other words, teenagers are still on Facebook; they're just not using it as much as they did. It was a landmark statement, since teens are the demographic who often point the rest of us towards the next big thing."

A great video on Twitter looking in particular at the use of Tweetdeck

"I spent this past week with many of those teachers at the International Society for Technology in Education conference in Philadelphia, and when Google unveiled Google+ on Tuesday, most of us were otherwise preoccupied. But now that many of the early tech adopter teachers are getting their Google+ invites, the question on their minds is "How will this work for education?""