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This is the University of Melbourne on Wikis, Blogs and Web 2.0 Technology. It gives some definition on the social media networks as well as guideline on policy for social media.

Great article about how to incorporate social media into schools.

From the website: "Bright ideas is a blog by the School Libraries Association of Victoria (SLAV) and the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Its aim is to encourage teacher librarians and educators to actively engage with ICT, to share tools and experiences, to network on a global scale, and to embrace dynamic teaching and learning opportunities."

I was happy to find a relevant and recent article advocating the use ofcial media for voluntary organisations. Abstract: There is potential for nonprofit organizations to increase effectiveness by mobilizing social media to help achieve goals. However, the sector is only just becoming aware of the possibilities for social media and lags behind other sectors in its use. We report a New Zealand initiative to enhance the capability of nonprofit organizations through action research that has implications for nonprofit organizations elsewhere. Borrowing from resource mobilization theory, we introduce the concept of resource mobilization chains to explain the requirements for and obstacles to taking advantage of social media. A survey and two in-depth case studies found that nonprofit organizations demonstrated extremely limited familiarity with and use of social media. Participants were enthusiastic about the potential of mobilizing social media to achieve organizational goals, but struggled to take concrete steps to implement their aspirations. Lack of resources was a key obstacle identified in both survey and case study research

This policy informs Western Australia Department of Education employees of the potential damage their personal use of social media can directly or indirectly affect the Department. Specific areas of interest in this policy include the legitimate and non-legitimate use of social media, the identification of key risk areas, and the duty of care towards students.

This is a case study on social media use in the cultural sector and is related to my line of work in the same sector, but on a larger scale. The text highlights careful consideration for users' privacy within the social media policy. Also, it includes a handy section titled "Anatomy of a social media policy," which explains what should be included in the document.

This post has some suggestions for alternatives to Google Reader. I use Feedly since I am a tablet owning app lover. Works great!

Collaboration or intrusion of privacy in cyberspace?