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

We have launched a new, free application for the iPhone to make it easier and more convenient for residents to access Council services and information wherever they are.Features include: * Find my nearest - using GPS technology you can find your nearest library, leisure or recycling centre and many more * Bin Calendar - if you need to check which recycling bins to put out you can enter your postcode and the App will tell you * Report it - If you need to report a missed bin, litter, dog fouling or any number of problems you can use the app and even send a photo of the issue * Jobs - get details of the latest vacancies * What's On - Looking for something to do on the weekend? Check details of local events * News - Up to the minute Council news

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News and content discovery and data aggregation services.

An aggregated news feed tracking friends and followers on social media. 

 flush the unfollowers  ?  Many users on Twitter feel that if a user does not follow them back, it's somehow insulting. This utility is designed to 'teach those users a lesson by unfollowing them' with just a few clicks. Tweepi's Geeky Flush is a simple utility for quickly spotting tweeps that you follow but do not follow you back. reciprocate  ?  It takes a really long time to find all the users you're not following on Twitter and then following each one back individually! This tool helps you find all the users that follow you, but you do not follow back, so that you can follow them back with a click of a button. cleanup the inactives  ?  So, you're following more than a hundred people on Twitter. You must have noticed that many of these users do not engage in conversations, never retweet anybody, or simply just ramble about nonsense stuff all day long (no links to useful content whatsoever!). You can use Tweepi’s geeky cleanup tool to filter these people out and unfollow them. Geeky Clean-up enables you to filter out those inactive and unwanted tweeps by letting you check out their details and decide for yourself! force to unfollow you NEW  ?  Undesirable people are following you? Nasty avatars appearing on your 'Followers' list? You can use Tweepi's Force Unfollow tool to filter these people out and force them to unfollow you. follow new tweeps 

Social media analytics can give new direction to ineffective brand management and poor customer relationship practices, not to mention its potential to leverage overall marketing and advertising effectiveness through integration of social media and business intelligence. The good news is that many great analytical tools are free. Though they have limitations, these five online tools can provide meaningful insights on your social media influence while providing you with valuable competitor data.

The 21st Century is a fast moving place. With the evolution of our society and the rapid growth of new technologies, the young learners of today face new challenges on a global platform. As teachers, our aim is to prepare students so they can be successful in the modern-day world and workplace, however with a curriculum and lesson delivery model that dates back to the 19th Century, can we really be expected to do this effectively?

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There is a desire to develop more effective knowledge sharing and a culture of collaboration in most organisations, but little recognition of what this means in terms of staff development and overcoming barriers to change. The enormous growth of social media tools and social/professional networks over the past few years has created new opportunities and new challenges for people and organisations that want to embrace this dynamic world of social interaction and fluid knowledge flows. However, It is not widely recognised that collaboration and knowledge sharing are skills and practices that rarely get taught. It's something we may learn on the job in a hit or miss fashion. Some people are natural at it. Others struggle to understand it.

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Launched in March as a beta, Trooclick tracks quotes from news sites and social media and classifies them by topic, showing on one screen who is saying what and whether their comments are 'positive' or 'negative'.

Here is some good news to start the year. A new McKinsey report, The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday, suggests that there are many benefits to be derived from using "collaborative Web 2.0 technologies." aka enterprise 2.0.

FEEDWAX helps you curate news, photos, video, tweets, data, and links - streams of information about what's happening in your local area right now. Use FEEDWAX to build location-aware media streams and feed them into n0tice.com or any RSS-friendly platform.

News aggregator, personalised magazine.

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.

Facebook has released a highly comprehensive plugin for WordPress. With the new plugin, you can perform sophisticated auto-publishing to your Timeline and add many Facebook features to your blog.

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Premium feature!The new "Focused Research" allows you to save time and energy when you are researching a certain topic. If you check "research mode" in the Diigo extension pop-over, you can set information relevant to your topic beforehand.Then, each bookmark will be saved with this information automatically added."