Gore says 'democracy has been hacked' at SXSW
(AP) -- In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital tools to improve government.
Internet
Mar 13, 2012
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News tagged with social networking tools
Education social networking site Edmodo to open API to third party developers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Edmodo, the leading education centric social networking site has announced that it is opening its Application Programming Interface (API) to third party developers in a bid to entice more teachers to use ...
Researcher presents latest work on tracking ideas in social media
Indiana University's Filippo Menczer has shown how to "out" political astroturfers through his complex networks laboratory's study of information diffusion on Twitter. The research team went on to learn that while retweet ...
Internet
Feb 19, 2012
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How to hold students' attention in large lectures: Reach out through their laptops and cell phones
This fall, more than 4,000 University of Michigan students in nearly 20 classes will be utilizing LectureTools, an interactive presentation tool that harnesses the potential of laptops and cell phones to serve as learning ...
Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2011
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Facebook makes sharing more selective
Facebook on Tuesday announced it is rolling out improvements aimed at letting users be more selective about who gets to see what they post at the world's largest online social network.
Internet
Aug 23, 2011
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Social media study: Conservatives were top tweeters in 2010 elections
The results of a study on candidates' use of Twitter in the 2010 midterm elections suggest that Republicans and Tea Party members used the social medium more effectively than their Democratic rivals.
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2011
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In an emergency, word spreads fast and far
(PhysOrg.com) -- Large-scale emergencies, such as bombings and plane crashes, trigger a sharp spike in the number of phone calls and text messages sent by eyewitnesses in the vicinity of the disaster, according to a research ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 4, 2011
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Re-learning how to help professionals share their practice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Online tools developed in Europe have created completely new approaches in pedagogy -- the science of education.
Software
May 14, 2010
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US military lets soldiers Tweet, blog and Facebook
The Pentagon said soldiers will be allowed to Tweet, blog and update their Facebook pages on the US military's non-classified computer network under a new policy.
Internet
Feb 27, 2010
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MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won a 40,000-dollar prize for using social networking tools to identify the locations of 10 large weather balloons in a contest sponsored by the Pentagon's ...
Other
Dec 7, 2009
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