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Instructional uses of social networking software can provide opportunities for learning, connecting, and engagement.

"Niume is an interest-based social network that is born out of the need for a quality driven social network in which users are motivated to share high quality content and to pursue their passions"

"Your world of shared interests"

A theory stemming from an experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claims every living person is connected to any other through only six friends. According to a recent study, Facebook reduces the six degrees of separation to only four, meaning the world's largest social network makes the world even smaller (figuratively).

"Forget devices, the future of education technology is all about the cloud and anywhere access. In the future, teaching and learning is going to be social, says Matt Britland"

Andy Affleck is debating whether to allow his 11-year-old son, Jack, to have a Facebook account. Director of engineering at a small tech company near Providence, R.I., Affleck says he feels very strongly "that children need to be socialized in the online world just as much as they do in the real world." Andy Affleck/Andy Affleck Andy Affleck with Jack in 2009. So Affleck the elder, who ponders these things on his Webcrumbs blog, is thinking about creating a Facebook page for Affleck the younger.

We figure out what specialties can be mastered in the field of SMM, what skills will be needed, and what you will have to do. We share proven methods of remote earnings on the Internet for those who know how to work with social networks.

We figure out what specialties can be mastered in the field of SMM, what skills will be needed, and what you will have to do. We share proven methods of remote earnings on the Internet for those who know how to work with social networks.

Personal learning network app. Good blog review. Uses new Tincan api.

An online learning management classroom teaching with social networking. Includes live webcam and conferencing for realtime teaching. Tutors can charge or not.

An online learning management classroom teaching with social networking. Includes live webcam and conferencing for realtime teaching. Tutors can charge or not.

Interesting read about social media being more media than social. True conversations don't happen in public online spaces.

Neat whimsical cartoon

"Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust."

Interesting research about the literacy connection to social networking.

Fast-paced bytes of information gathered from today's social networks and video games are responsible for rewiring kids' brains, says UK neuroscientist Susan Greenfield. Though she doesn't cite any research, she connects these new technological habits to the behaviors of infants and autistic children.

Free online course about Facebook

Share online with Minus An alternative to Dropbox? 10GB of free space.. 

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

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

"When Google Plus was announced in 2011, many people were skeptical that the social network would be able to gain ground against the likes of LinkedIn and Twitter, let alone the industry-leading giant Facebook. After all, looking at the Palo Alto-based Google previous cracks at a similar experiment, it would appear that social media was one area that Google struggled with."

"Awkwardly bumping into an ex with their new partner or just a friend you're trying is avoid could now be easily avoided with the latest anti-social networking app Cloak, which promises to help its users avoid unwanted confrontations."

The graphic below pits our social network usage against the huge adoption of mobile phones - currently at 4.6 billion worldwide. Facebook, with over 500 million users, is still around 10 times smaller than the worldwide mobile market. Even web-based e-mail, which accounts for over 800 million users collectively, barely holds a candle to the mobile juggernaut. The key here is convergence. Where do all these social platforms intersect with mobile, thus becoming "GeoSocial?"