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In this undated photo released by Airbus Industries, one of its A310 passenger planes, the same type that crashed in the Indian Ocean, is seen flying in an undisclosed location.

Associated Press Writer= EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices.

Criminal gangs are attempting to infiltrate police forces by exploiting a recent recruitment drive, a senior anti-corruption officer has said.

Maybe you were there when Neda died. If you were, you saw a tragedy, of course, a 26-year-old Iranian protester gunned down in the streets.

A British Columbia man was in hospital Sunday after being shot twice by a police officer in this small town on the province’s Sunshine Coast.

A good guidebook is more than just a compilation of information. It’s a travel companion with personality, a sense of humor and, usually, strengths and weaknesses.

Hide Video A 19-year-old Detroit-area man has been sentenced to one to 15 years behind bars in the attempted sexual assault of a teenager he met on the popular Internet networking site Facebook.

Media Literacy moves from recognising and comprehending information to the higher order critical thinking skills such as questioning, analysing and evaluating that information. (Source: OFcom)

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Inside this Media Literacy digest:

• Attention and Distraction - Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services.
• Social Media: Trends and Implications For Learning - …explore emerging technological and related research trends from a perspective of social and networked learning theory.
• Failing New Grading Approaches - A prof doesn’t have the funds available to hire teaching assistants to help with grading, so he adopts a peer-review model.
• Language and Connectedness - Connections create words, language, and conceptual understanding, all formed by social connectedness and continually adaptations fostered by feedback and interactions.
• Opera Unite - Whenever a system is created - school models, corporations, or browsers - ideologies of the age are embedded.
• Social. Networks. Learning. Organizations - How should organizations “restructure” on network principles?

George Siemens‘ Media Literacy Digest takes you to places, facts and resources to help you make sense of the fascinating changes that new media technologies are bringing to the educational landscape.

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“Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died,” the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken.

Jeff Goldblum was caught up in a sick internet death hoax as as reports of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson’s deaths spread on social networking websites on Thursday night.

The first reports of Michael Jackson ’s death emerged on a showbiz website sparking a massive surge in online traffic around the globe as millions of people logged on to find out more.

Maybe you were there when Neda died. If you were, you saw a tragedy, of course, a 26-year-old Iranian protester gunned down in the streets.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices.

Model Katie Price has taunted her estranged husband Peter Andre on her Twitter web page, it has been reported.

Social media marketing is making strong inroads in the corporate world, but understanding how to do it properly without making painful mistakes, remains, for most companies out there, one of the greatest marketing challenges to overcome. What is it that corporate institutions must do or avoid to overcome the typical hurdles, fears and mistakes that are met when they first try to adopt a social media marketing strategy?

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Here, in this short video interview with Josh Bernoff, I target the very key questions that most marketing executives have been asking me the most via emails and comments:

1) How can the social media “voice“ of a company be made “real“?

2) How to use social media for business?

3) Social media marketing: which are the biggest mistakes to avoid?

If you have not yet heard about him, Josh Bernoff is the co-author, with Charlene Li of the best-selling book on why companies often fail to use social media marketing strategies: “Groundswell”

Here is Josh Bernoff on social media marketing: