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Telstra's policy on social media engagement is a good example of how organisations can approach the use of social media within the workforce. While Telstra's main focus is on technology this doesn't mean that other organisation whose main area of business is not technology should be complacent about addressing social media use. The three Rs is a good guideline for employees to remember when using social media: Representing, Responsibility and Respect are key components to using common sense and judgement when using social media within an organisation.

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.

Despite their spectacular growth in both daily life and mainstream education, little research to date has been conducted concerning the use of social networking sites in foreign language learning. The aim of this study, therefore, is to examine the use of such sites to learn a foreign language. Using an auto-ethnographic approach that included self-aware participation, learner diaries and peer debriefing, we investigated the social networking site Livemocha to study Korean from our perspectives as native speakers and experienced teachers of English. Specifically, we focused our questions on aspects of socio-collaborative principles and practice. Results of a grounded, thematic analysis indicate that the site had number of counter-productive pedagogical impediments to language learning that included, for example, flaws in site design. We conclude our paper with suggestions for improved foreign language learning through social networking sites.

Gaurav Mishra's 4 Cs of Social Media - presentation www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-4cs-social-media-framework/

Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work.

***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.

By now, we are all aware of how social media is changing the way we communicate with each other. Social media has made it easier for us to connect with people both close to us, businesses we have an interest in and not least people across the world. And now, we also begin to see how the education industry is joining the game.

Personal commentary on one experience of the Queensland floods and social media. People in the states/overseas were recommending others to follow Joy on Twitter as she had the most current updates. "Love how twitter, facebook and youtube actually connected me to stranger who are now 'real people' who are becoming friends!"

This is an example of a social media policy in use for a large government organisation and library. The policy was updated in December 2010 and covers in detail the regulations, guidelines and responsibilities of users using social media within the national library.

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.

This is a new page  of the Directory showing SOCIAL tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classrooms. (The rest of the Directory also provides useful tools)

Education 2.0: Social networking for your class. Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged.

James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.

Educators that are not using Facebook often use the arguments that they are concerned for their: Privacy & Time.