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Experts warn about things you should not post on social networking sites like Facebook.

Twitter’s spree of partnerships isn’t stopping anytime soon. Late last month, Microsoft and Twitter struck a search deal to integrate Twitter within Bing.

Luxury goods group Burberry has hooked up with social networking company Facebook to launch a Web site celebrating its trench coat, becoming the latest retailer to use social media in a bid to boost its brand.

Verizon Wireless has unveiled its second Android-based phone, the Droid Eris by HTC.

As the details of the massacre began to filter out across the country, many people connected to the military expressed their surprise and dismay.

In this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and of how these directly impact your daily lives.

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Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• Future of The Social Web - Of course, the web is not social. Just like technology is not social. Or media is not social. We use these resources for social means, but that is a function of use, not of the characteristics inherent in the web or media. We compress “social uses of the web” to social web for convenience sake. But we really do not mean it like we say it.
• The Age of The Informavore - A good name is often as good as (or better than) a good idea. The age of the informavore displays both provocative thinking and a memorable term.
• Openness and The Future of Education - IRRODL just released a special issue on Openness and the Future of Education. Future of education is not an explicit focus in the articles, but can be anticipated as a result of the focus of the articles.
• Cannot Squeeze Knowledge From a Pixel - Meaning is found in associations. It is simple concept, but has substantial implications. To get an accurate picture of “something“, context first needs to be understood. This short video - cannot squeeze knowledge from a pixel - summarizes this point.
• Personal View of E-Learning: Saudi Arabia - I have not had the privilege of visiting Saudi Arabia. As a result, I particularly appreciated reading Tony Bates‘ experiences of leading a series of workshops in his post: A personal view of e-learning.
• Social Isolation and Technology - Barry Wellman - with his Netville research - was the first researcher that I am aware of who questioned the tech use = isolation viewpoint. People who are connected online often have higher levels face-to-face interactions.
• Call For Chapters: Personal Learning Environments / Networks - I posted this last month, but by way of a quick reminder: Call for Chapters: Personal Learning Environments / Networks.

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Back in July we took a look at ZooLoo , a service that looks to help users build their own websites where they can manage their entire social network experience from one place a ‘A when it launched we described as an iGoogle meets Facebook , in that it’s a single hub that lets you interact with your Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts.

Looks like quite a few folks have got their hands on the Acer Liquid as of late, and lucky for us they’ve been rather loose-lipped with their thoughts on the subject.

By Alex Palmer Social media sites are on their way to becoming a brand’s best advertising medium, according to a new study.

Michael Ellis, 23, was jailed for two and a half years after he ran away with a girl, 14, he met on the internet A man on probation who sparked a nationwide hunt when he ran away with a 14-year-old girl he met on the internet was jailed for three and a half years today.

As well as their headline smartphone announcements this morning, Verizon have also officially confirmed a couple of featurephones that have each been rattling around the rumor mill for a while.

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People from more than 150 countries have viewed the message aimed at flushing out anyone involved in the disappearance of the girl.

Broadband Market Still Expanding [November 2, 2009] Global economic slowdown isn’t slowing down the move to broadband.

Did you know Facebook is a great tool for your business? Is your company utilizing the new features of Facebook pages to do social media marketing? If you are not yet leveraging the power of social media to boost your sales or engaging your customers, it is time you seriously take action on this front.

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Facebook was originally conceived as a place to stay in touch with lost college mates. Time has passed since then, and now Facebook has become the largest social media in the world by far, with more than 300 million active users and a reported growth of 513.7% in the first six months of 2009 alone.

With Nielsen recently reporting Facebook on the tail of large companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, the company will probably grow even more in the second half of 2009 as well.

That said, how can you take advantage of this stunning popularity to create new opportunities for your company and reach a broader audience trough social media?

Facebook has just come to rescue by introducing some important changes to its business pages, which now allow even more interaction and engagement that you can turn to your advantage.

With this roll-out, everything changes. Brand’s actions are now shared across the network, finally allowing them to participate as members of the community rather than remaining passive spectators.

Let’s look together at the main changes:

• The wall tab will become the official landing page for Facebook users, making pages more useful than before to showcase newest content and stimulating conversations with fans.
• Users can select which tab to show to non-Facebook users as the landing page. This is particularly useful to let everyone access relevant information or specific content you want to promote even to those users without a Facebook account.
• Content posted on the wall now will appear more often inside the News Feeds of your fans. Curating the wall will then be crucial to drive traffic to your page by spreading viral content.
• The status update will gradually substitute inbox messages when it comes to sharing small bits of content with fans in a less obtrusive way.
• Brands can sync their Twitter and Facebook accounts to automatically post selected tweets to Facebook as status updates.

In the first part of this Facebook Business Guide, you can find some key valuable strategies to help you leverage the most out of the communication and marketing potential available inside the new Facebook Pages features.

Thanks to the great research work done by the guys at The Advance Guard, here all the details: