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This is a newsletter focusing on the role of social networking in the Egyptian Revolution. This has ties to Government and social networking through the ant-government protesters that caused riots, which were made possible by social networking communications

This article talks about the positives and negatives social networking has on education.

The advent of social networking has brought a higher level of interactivity than ever before. HVS Executive Search looks at how hotel companies should use social networking as a strategy for their sales and marketing and customer relationship efforts

Web 2.0 background

A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where people are limited to the passive viewing of content.

This source gives more background and information on how the Web 2.0 was created and formed.

Pew research - Social media and people involved in online communities more likely to be more socially engaged and has an impact on the ability of groups to bring attention to issues.

"In Few Years, Social Network Data May Be Used in Underwriting"

"Already, by my count, there are four major social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Plus, with Facebook presumably consuming a disproportionate amount of all time that people spend on these sites. Might there be room for one more big-time contender?"

Social media in current news.

Here are some ways to help connect all of your fans and followers from any of your social networks. In and effort to keep up with the ever expanding world of social media it can be easy to forget to tie your networks together.

This article is about a social networking site in trumbull connecticut and talks about how social networking sites affect communities

This has a time line of major social networking launches. This also gives the history and research of social networking.

I'm not sure if I can really use this but it gives me a definition of the social media

Social media and Leisure - Games, Facebook, etc.

This article explains how social networking is huge in America. So many individuals use social networking sites and it is a reflection on modern day America.

This article discusses how social networking may impact the upcoming election. This shows us that the social media has a huge role in the modern world.

This article is interesting, because it provides a good link between social networking and the government, which is my area of research. This article is all about the ties between social networking and the Egypt-uprisings. The article suggests that the reason for all the support and followers for the violence was because of social-networking.

A ;new proposed law in the UK wants Skype and social networking sites to be required to keep communications for 12 months. I am thinking this would also apply to Twitter. Understandably, privacy concerns swirl around this proposal. "Ministers say change is needed to help fight crime and terrorism, but critics warn it is an attack on privacy. Internet service providers (ISPs) are obliged to keep details of users' web access, email and internet phone calls for 12 months, under an EU directive from 2009. Although the content of the calls is not kept, the sender, recipient, time of communication and geographical location does have to be recorded. The proposed new law - which the Home Office says will be brought in "as soon as parliamentary time allows" - would extend those requirements to social networking sites and internet phone services such as Skype."

A website that gives the basical definition of social networking.