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"The young Egyptian revolutionaries who sparked the protests have told how they used the internet to galvanise Cairo's protest movement. "

The Enterprise gets social: "Enter Hearsay with a social media management platform it says makes Facebook far more palatable to IT with compliance and management features lacking in other services. The new Hearsay Social also provides full integration with the LinkedIn API."

Social networking is bad for society -not a new argument but one that is becoming louder. Social networking is neutral, it is a tool, it can be used for good or bad. We are just beginning to understand it. The most popular social network is Facebook -this proves to me that social networking is not fully understood yet. We need to find ways to present a venue for real discussion. Facebook is nice for connecting with old friend, but hardly a good place for a deep conversation. This is key, using the tools available to create the right platform and venue for creating positive outcomes.

ASEAN have revealed their "ICT Masterplan" which includes provisions to create its own regional Internet exchange, complete with an "ASEAN broadband corridor linking key cities in the region". The ICT Masterplan also lays out a framework to increase access to affordable technologies, encourage and train Southeast Asian residents in ICT jobs, and other cross-country initiatives that help bridge the digital divide both between countries and within countries.

Americans clearly see the value in social media.

The goal of this project is to promote economic well‐being in remote, rural areas through scientific research based on the principles of the digital and knowledge divides. We advocate that humans can, through their deployment and usage of IT, generate, acquire, disseminate, and utilize the know‐how so as to achieve marked improvement in economic outcomes.

This article backs up the fact that "digital literacy" means much more than just knowing how to using digital tools. Discernment and judgment are also skills necessary in becoming digitally literate. To survive online you need to identify curators (as the author points out), get in the habit of crosschecking information, and learn now to minimize distractions.

What questions do people type into a search engine? This tool will tell you. Great for content brainstorming.

Need to use Mind Mapping software but don't have an extra $400 laying around for MindJet? Here's an alternative, there's a free version which you may outgrow quickly, but the paid versions are reasonably priced.

Adults need to have a better understand Social Media so that young people can connect with each other in positive ways.

Make a to-do list of things that you want to do in life and cheer each other on.

Valuable article on traffic analysis and visitor segmentation.

Here are some of the interesting sharing trends that AddThis noticed in 2010. Great information.

Some interesting data on Facebook, especially regarding young people.

The Philippines -when it comes to mobile and social media, they "get it".

Ignore the politics in this article and look at how ASEAN is struggling to bring youth from different countries together. Dr. Madanmohan Rao's social media concept seems like a good one, and along the lines of my own ideas for a youth news network.

Twitter is such a useful service and by far my favorite social network.Check out these Twitter projects and case studies.

Some interesting demographics on Twitter usage reported by Pew.Only American residents were surveyed.

A Tibetan singer trying to preserve his culture as many Tibetans live in exile in different parts of the world, and the threat of the PRC trying to eliminate the Tibetan language from schools. He sells CDs of his music on his website and uses the proceeds to save the Tibetan culture.