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Multiverse client software helps users to create a network of other worlds; links to Hollywood may lead to movie tie-ins; Ed Castronova to develop the education MMO "Arden"

In my previous post, Personal Branding 101, we discussed the importance of branding in this web 2.0 world, as well as how to discover and create your brand. In Personal Branding 102 we'll discuss how you'll communicate your personal brand, using social media tools and proven marketing tactics, and then how to sustain your future growth by performing brand maintenance.

I thought this article was appropriate since the conversation some of us had last week about the digital divide. I'll see what I can find out from local news media as well since I am here.

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It's an addictive little habit, that Twitter. But what if there were ways for you to still keep your ugly tweeting habit while staying productive at the same time? Since I can't fully support the total indulgence in the tool that has the tech-world (and beyond) glued to their favorite Twitter client, I thought I would share a few very useful ways to make the service much more productive while you're living inside of it.

Wiki of class in Florida that is using Skype to connect to schools around the world.

Concrete CMS, developer of next- generation open source solutions for web sites, today announced general availability of concrete5, the latest version of its popular open source Content Management System (CMS). concrete5 combines the ease-of-use of a blogging platform with the flexibility and power of a web development platform. To date, thousands of advertising and creative agencies and web developers around the world have downloaded early versions of concrete5 and used the technology to quickly and inexpensively build sophisticated web sites that can be updated by end users

Gmail Labs added yet another useful feature for those who receive messages from all over the world.The new feature in Gmail labs called "Sender Time Zone". you can find this option in Labs tab under Settings. Once you enabled this feature you can see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable.The red ones indicates those who could be sleeping or out of the office.

In the past years communication and way to communucate changes dramatically. The advent of the social and mobile web has made it easy to connect to large groups of people. Web technologies are used to connect millions of people online. This eases the sharing information simpler. Following the Social media smashers Twitter and FaceBook, It's tome now to micromessagging service from Quub, In this fast moving world stay connected over millions of people is a real tough one. To effectively deal with maintaining so many connections, frequent status updates have emerged as a popular method of staying in contact.

Have you become addicted to telling the world what you're up to in 140 characters or less? If so, say three cheers for wordpress. Wordpress recently launched a cool new feature that all bloggers will love to use : a Twitter widget for your wordpress sidebar.

Interesting thoughts from a well respected teacher in the international school world.

collaboration online as the new learning method

What does the future hold for virtual learning environments? The article suggests a positive venue for developing, creating, collaborating, and meeting. The author suggests a submersive learning experience in technology will facilitate a deeper understanding.

The article is a great example of the debate surrounding the use of social networking in schools.

Article discusses the controversy pertaining to whether schools should ban social networking sites or teach students how to use the sites appropriately.

An article by Nancy Willard in Education World that outlines the 6 key components that schools should have when addressing the issue of internet safety.

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Global Kids--site has information about gaming in public schools and an innovative High School for Global Citizenship in Brooklyn, partially funded by the MacArthur Foundation

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