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Twitter As A Professional Development Tool: http://bit.ly/e3h4UY

***Note you will need your CSU logon to access full article*** This article discusses the need for social media policies in organisations and more importantly having organisations accept the fact that social media is being used daily and here to stay. Scott (2010) suggests the development of a new role titled social media administrator, a position that oversees the development of social media policies and the education of users' approach to using social media in the workforce.

***Note you will need your CSU logon to access full article*** O'Brien discusses the development of social media policies in local government offices, the casualisation of social media use is discussed and the fact that social media is everywhere and used by almost everyone warrants the need for policies and protocols that inform users of their rights and responsibilities. Instead of restricting social media use, O'Brien advocates that educating and informing users through guidelines is far more proactive and the way forward for web 2.0 technologies.

Has social media plateaued? Will a "rest" in social media development allow everyone to catch up and be okay with social media skills? Interesting opinion.

Technology and teaching - two words that seem to fit together perfectly today for most teachers and learners. So much so that a slew of new blogs have come on board to talk about education technology - or, edTech. This list of the 50 best education technology blogs are not inclusive, as there are so many new blogs available; however, if you look at links provided by many of these blogs to other edTech blogs, you may learn about even more blog that you aren't reading yet.

Written by Annette Lamb & Larry Johnson\nFeatures internet resources, pathfinders, webquests, teacher tools, examples of content rich websites, collaborative online projects,\nlibrary & classroom websites

Nice Collection Of Web 2.0 Rubrics: http://bit.ly/g59RqQ

Is a discussion paper on the use of social media policies within public libraries. This is more of how to establish a policy than a policy itself. There are good examples of what to include but it should be made clear that these are by no means the be all and end all to developing a policy. A social media policy should be thought of as a working document, one that can organically grow and adapt to the needs of the organisations and its users.