Social Blogging

You’ve seen one fan page, you’ve seen them all -right?

Wrong.

Facebook Fan pages can be customized to give your fans (and not yet fans) an experience that is unique to your business and style.

First step is to give fans and not yet fans two seperate landing pages on your Fan Page.

I was listening to NewsCorp’s dismal earnings report last week, in which operating income declined 47% YoY due to weakness at all divisions except Cable, and in which CEO Rupert Murdoch declared that the worst of the economic decline is over.

The SNP has launched its youth manifesto online in a bid to reach out to young voters ahead of the European election.

A man serving a life sentence for the murder of a three-year-old child is protesting his innocence via social networking site Facebook.

Facebook is blocking links to bogus websites set up to look like the home page of the popular social-networking site as part of a major “phishing” attack by hackers.

While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site.

Media Literacy is about asking pertinent questions about what’s there, and noticing what’s not there. And it’s the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and the ownership - and to be aware of how these factors influence content. (Source: Media Awareness Network)

Photo credit: Jason Rhode

Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• Emergent Meaning or Prescription? - What if meaning emerges as a by-product of interaction… rather than something that exists externally (in the head of an expert) and is then communicated to prospective learners?
• The Psychology of Attention - Attention and multitasking is an important aspect of learning.
• Growth of Universities - Globally, enrollment in HE increased from 68 million in 1991 to 144 million in 2005.
• All Information Is Suspect - The big lesson of our Wikipedia-era is not that amateur information is potentially false, but rather that all information must be questioned.
• CNIE, uOttawa, and Mohawk College Presentation - Society builds institutions in response to the information needs and habits of an era.
• This Thing Called the Future - Which concepts / ideas / philosophies are of suitable force to serve as a foundation for building new institutions, business models, and even societies?

If you want to understand how new technologies are changing the way both teachers and learners experience education, this weekly digest will help you make sense of the evolution in progress inside society and what the future may hold for you.

Here all the details:

Canada’s privacy commissioner suggests you think twice about Twittering your porn name - because it could lead to hackers stealing your real name.

Police in northern New Jersey infiltrated Facebook to learn that students were planning to bring alcohol and drugs to an after-prom party.

Hackers launched an attack on Facebook’s 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site.

It pains me to take Elizabeth Edwards to task for anything. She is suffering from terminal cancer and from assertions that her cheating husband fathered a child with a party girl.

LinkedIn, like Twitter, has become an unexpected source of news over the past year.

Everyone has heard of MySpace and Facebook, two very popular social networking sites.

Twitter 3 ways to deal with Twitter spam By: C.G. Lynch - CIO.com A Twitter spam derives from people who take advantage of you following them by sending you unwanted direct messages - these people have no sincere interest in your tweets As the amount of followers you have on Twitter increases, you might find yourself dealing with an increase in …

It’s one thing to be hip on social media marketing, but it’s a whole other beast to do it and look really good in the process.