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A selection of personalised social workflow tools

"Now it's easier than ever to unleash the full potential of iPad in your classroom by creating your own courses for iPad. You get to share your ideas in a powerful new way, and your students get a rich, immersive learning experience using the iTunes U app for iPad. iTunes U is available no matter where you teach - at any college, university, or K-12 school."

Machine learning can automate content curation by using algorithms to scan content items, find similarities between sources and cluster them in logical groups. The content then can be tagged accordingly and displayed both proactively and on demand in response to search queries. The goal is to improve the efficiency (and cost) of curation processes while eliminating the "misses" where relevant content exists, but the system fails to connect users with the best resources.

News and content discovery and data aggregation services.

Social Networks and content aggregator

News and social media feed aggregator

Creative Commons licences (also referred to as CC licences) can facilitate the copying, reuse, distribution, and in some cases, the modification of the original owner's creative work without needing to get permission each time from the rights holder.

Google is widely (and rightly) recognised as the mother of all search engines. But, if you need to drill down your searches by more specific details, do you trust Google to give you what you need every single time? Here's a collection of 3o vertical search engines which you should have up your sleeve when you need some specialist power.

News360 is a next generation news aggregation & personalization service.on the mobile web.

Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You'll find quite a few smart social media monitoring tools, but what if you can't afford them? That's why many social media marketers and power users are in constant search of free, efficient alternatives. Here, we'll share a few ready-made spreadsheets you can copy (navigate File + Make a copy) and use for social media analytics. They are free, highly customizable and extremely easy to use. Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are "public," meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team).

Social Media Game

y working definition of personal knowledge management: PKM: a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively and contribute to society. PKM is also an enabling process for wirearchy: " a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results enabled by interconnected people and technology"

The term personal knowledge management (PKM) isn't about management in a business sense but rather how we can manage to make sense of information and experience in our electronic surround. Personal - according to one's abilities, interests & motivation (not directed by external forces). Knowledge - connecting information to experience (know what, know who, know how). Management - getting things done.

A look back at some of the things we've written and linked to about this behemoth of a platform.

Data aggregator

Twitter tips - RSS 

The new Facebook business page timeline is here to stay at least until they decide to make the next round of changes. Might as well get use to it and make the most of it! Here are some must know tips as well as loads of Facebook reference urls at the bottom to hopefully save you some time in case you get stuck or have further questions.

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New EU regulations on the use by British websites of cookies have been watered down by the UK's information commissioner just hours before they were due to come into force. But they could mean that Britain is out of step with EU law in its implementation of the continent-wide directives, and lead to fights with European courts.