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"Social media can be an effective tool for engaging with learners and communicating with parents, whānau and communities. Teachers who model good social media use will grow learners who apply positive, respectful values in their interactions on social media platforms."

Helps you clean up your Facebook or Twitter streams of inappropriate content

"Imagine for a second if we taught our teenagers to drive a car in the same manner we attempt to teach them about social media." Blog post by Dan Haesler

"Anchor is a free app for iPhone and Android that makes it easy to broadcast short audio clips to a global audience in seconds. Your listeners can talk back, sparking instant group conversations that were never before possible."

Recordings from April 21, 2012 Social Learning Summit.. Illuminate sessions listed by topic title here.

"Zopler is a social network where writers, authors and students can easily collaborate on writing stories together as a group."

A decidedly low tech device, the humble pencil, is providing some tongue-in-cheek insight into current education debates via Twitter. In the past 24 hours, educators have tweeted the hashtag #pencilchat thousands of times. The tweets are undeniably witty, but they also reflect the frustration teachers feel over everything from schools' technophobia to budget cuts, which may make #pencilchat the best-and most clever-education allegory ever.

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).

"The 'Easy Guide to Socialising Online'* provides information about the cybersafety features of different sites, including social networking sites, search engines and online games. By clicking on the logos for each site, you can learn how to adjust your privacy settings, report inappropriate content and find out more about other safety features.

Like scoop.it I think. Create online magazine format as way to share photos, video, and narratives. Follow people and magazines.

"Google Research group that explores how information visualization can make complex data accessible, useful, and even fun. Our work includes public and Google-internal projects. Here is some of our public work. "

Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online. We all use Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and MSN to keep up with our mates - and we've all heard the stories about parties on Facebook being mobbed, or people getting stalked on MSN. The question is, what would you do if it happened to you?

"Now this idea occurred to me after a cybernaut (thanks Mitchell) sheepishly took me to a place where he thought other cybernauts had dome something naughty - let me explain."

Here is a fascinating adaptation for a virtual world, reconstructing it in ways that the original builders did not consider for new online meetings.

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?"

"Stop. Put down this computer, go pick up your iPad and come back here. Now go get this app: Flipboard. Why? It's pretty awesome."

Amazing bit of software, awesome to read my social networks online as if they are an eBook or magazine! Has much in common with http://paper.li

"Still trying to get your employees to embrace the company wiki and other recent collaboration tools? Sorry, the world has moved on. Four years since the birth of "Enterprise 2.0", many wikis have been abandoned, as companies find it takes more to enthuse staff to share than just building a platform and expecting them to come."

Intesting refection about enterprise applications of web2.0 tools that could be applied to the Ultranet.

I presented twice at a great two day conference in Melbourne called 'Arresting Audiences'. The irony of the title not lost on this writer as the real intention of the event run by Film Victoria (a traditional film funding organisation) was commendable - finally focus on 'users', 'watchers', 'participants' aka as old school 'audiences'. Most of the talks explored new marketing, basic demography and obligatory future trends with a couple of inspirational 'write for your inner audience' highlight talks from the likes of Jane 'buffy/BSG' Espenson, but I was asked to look at the social and transmedia aspects that affect and impact on audiences/communities so below is:

Clean up and manage who you follow. Find out who isn't following you back. Find out which inactive accounts you follow. Easily search inside your Twitter stream.