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Posted by Saga Briggs on Monday, November 11, 2013 · 8 Comments If you don't have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there's a good chance you're behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware.

education is an evolution rather than a revolution

Good overview on the most popular social media platforms and the key differences between them.

"Please be careful with account names that resemble Fuji Xerox's official accounts. Current official account in Hong Kong is listed below:" (Fuji Xerox Hong Kong, n.d., para. 6.2). Fuji Xerox Hong Kong wants to make sure their employee and customers know which official channels are in Youtube, Facebook and Linkedln. A list of official channels ensure their customer communicate with the right authority.

"An 11 minute documentary looking at the way social networking has changed the world and developed social communication. The documentary takes a look at several aspects of social networking including the way it has changed celebrating birthdays. I will also be looking into how social networks have altered the way children spend their days compared to how they would have done before Facebook was around. "

"Teens are among the leaders of Internet trends. The world is advancing so quickly that many of today's teens will find future careers in technologies that haven't been invented yet. Through the Think Time videos, you'll see why it's time for them to become more cyber savvy."

"This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It's hard to believe social media having any larger impact on society than it already has, yet that's exactly what Jerry thinks. In his talk, he explores the evolution of social media and gives us glimpses of things to come."

"View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/clay-shirky... While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter, and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics."

Brief overview of major findings of the report.

12 year old kids from NY reflect on having a phone.

Brief overview of major findings of report.

A little dated (uploaded in 2013) so missing some info on the new outliners features, but otherwise a good little introduction to the hows and whys of using Diigo.

Thanks, I found that useful - now I should use it more. I have been using just my "favourites" for keeping webpages, but I can see scope there for much better organisation. I wonder how other people keep and organise web pages. Obviously we're sharing them in this context as well.

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The conversations about the social life of information reminded me about a publication called "Delayed Gratification". The emergence of the idea that "being first" is more important that "being correct" in the business of journalism has seen the life of a news story rarely flowing through to the conclusion of the event itself, as the latest breaking thing takes over the hype. DG magazine is always 120 pages long, and follows up on the news of each quarter, investigating the ending of the stories that break, burn up cyberspace for a time, and then disappear.

I love this explanation of web 2.0. I remembered it when I watched the Penny thoughts on the technium by Kevin Kelly.

Hi, an article in The Australian on how glossy women's magazines are struggling with readership as people go online for their fashion tips. Not related to libraries but shows what a difference the online world is having to our economy. I found it quite interesting. Enjoy...Jacqui if you have trouble with the link just type in article heading and it will come up

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