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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!"

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.

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.