Social Networking: A Quantitative And Qualitative Research Report Into Attitudes, Behaviours And Use

Are You An ‘Alpha Socialiser” or an ‘Attention Seeker’? … Ofcom Research Identifies Social Networking Profiles
Nearly half of all children who have access to the internet have their own personal profile on a social networking site, according to extensive qualitative and quantitative Ofcom research published today [April 02 2008].
The report reveals just how quickly social [...]

Emergency Alerts Via Facebook And MySpace Are New Ways To Reach Students

Emergency Alerts via Facebook and MySpace Are New Ways to Reach Students

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
Chronicle of Higher Education / Friday, August 22, 2008
Colleges are experimenting with Facebook and other social networks to notify students about emergencies like crimes and floods—and get vital information in return. Most emergency-alert systems send out warnings. But social [...]

LibGuides Integration With Twitter

LibGuides Integration With Twitter

Springshare has announced the integration of its LibGuide service

[http://www.springshare.com/libguides/] with Twitter, the free social networking and micro-blogging service [http://twitter.com] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter]

“Now when you publish a new guide you can broadcast the news on Twitter for all your faithful followers to see. Anybody subscribed to your Twitter updates will see the name of [...]

Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008

Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008 This modular course prepares librarians for the future. Some modules are also relevant to publishers, researchers, lecturers and IT specialists. The modules are one day each. You can attend one or more modules. Modules 3a and 3b are held in parallel, as are modules 5a and 5b.MODULESModule 1: Strategic [...]

Blackboard Sync: New Facebook App

Let’s face it. You would live on Facebook if you could. Imagine a world where you could manage your entire life from Facebook – it’s not that far off! Right now, though, one thing missing is your academic life. You have to access a different system to get your course information and you don’t always [...]

Open Source Social Networking Software/Sites

Friends/
I have created a Global Facebook Group devoted to Open Source Social Networking Software/Sites.

The Focus of Open Source Social Networking Software/Sites Group is devoted to document and foster discuss Open Source Social Networking Software/Sites.

The Group Is Available At

[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16950765807]

/Gerry

Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Applications

Max Kiesler “an award-winning strategic designer and co-founderand principal of Ideacodes.com, a web consultancy in San Francisco” maintains a Most Excellent Compendium of Open Source social bookmarking, filesharing, search and social networking applications.
Social Networking
Affelio “Affelio is open-source social networking software / architecture. It has following features: (1)distributed architecture (2)Internet-wide scalability, (3)Extensivity with opened Affelio API [...]

CHE: Colleges Create Facebook-Style Social Networks to Reach Alumni

Chronicle Of Higher Education April 25, 2008
Colleges Create Facebook-Style Social Networks to Reach Alumni
By JJ HERMES

Trying to emulate the popularity of Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, hundreds of college alumni associations have begun to offer their own online social networks, seeking to stake a claim on the computer screens of current and [...]

CourseFeed + Facebook = Social Learning

CourseFeed + Facebook = Social Learning

Students go to class to both socialize and learn. CourseFeed combines actual learning content from leading learning management systems with the leading social network – Facebook. CourseFeed introduces learning content into the already thriving social network making time on Facebook productive. Students love CourseFeed because they get instantly [...]

Total Makeover: Change of Facebook Profile

New York Times / May 21, 2008, 2:48 pm
Big Changes Coming to Profile Pages on FacebookBy BRAD STONE
Profile pages on Facebook are getting a total makeover.
Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif., held an hourlong briefing for the news media Wednesday to preview changes coming to the site next month.

The biggest change: user profiles [...]