People rely more and more on search results to help build a picture of you and you want the picture to be a good one. You want search engine queries to direct to you and your accomplishments, not your virtual doppelgangers. If you have a name as common as my own, that could mean a sculptor, photographer, felon, aspiring actor, swimming champion, high school point guard, or any other number of people who share your name.
Steering an enlightened path between outright capitalism and downright communism, a new C-word has emerged as the way forward for business: Collaboration. In today’s hyper-socialised economy, it’s not who you know that really counts, but who you don’t.
Latching onto this open-sourced paradigm, the priority for many CEOs today is to break down the barriers that stand between them and their employees, their customers, their partners, their vendors – even their rivals. National boundaries are being bridged, corporate walls breached, expertise shared.
With Grockit, students can practice with, learn from, and compete with millions of their peers on the subject of their choice using live chat services. Students also can earn points and recognition for their achievements, including how helpful they are to their peers; their status is shown to the Grockit community, which can motivate students to excel even further.
research, conducted as part of a course on social media tools, examined the use of course management systems and discussion groups to enhance classroom instruction, improve communication and connections between students and translate the benefits of social media interaction to the classroom. The results indicate that the educational use of social media may not counteract poor social connections that are seen in face-to-face communication or elicit the same impacts seen in the use of social media sites such as MySpace and FaceBook.
Local governments should also put more effort into engaging with young people online. "Involvement in local government leads to federal government," said boyd. "It's rarely the opposite direction. When everyone is focused on a local election, you often see people engaging physically. For instance, asking them to show up and clean up the streets is something you can do easily. Government leaders can show up and talk to them there."
She cautioned that government officials talking to young people should be cautious about trying to use lingo or be hip. "It just makes you look lame. Be straightforward and say, 'I'm going to cover the issues that you care about, here are some different ways to contact me.' This is about building cross-generational trust."
While Formspring is still under the radar of many parents and guidance counselors, over the last two months it has become an obsession for thousands of teenagers nationwide, a place to trade comments and questions like: Are you still friends with julia? Why wasn’t sam invited to lauren’s party? You’re not as hot as u think u are. Do you wear a d cup? You talk too much. You look stupid when you laugh.
“This” is what’s present, what’s before us, what’s near and dear to us.
“This” is a form of direction, a continuation of location, just like “at.” In asynchronous online discussions, "this" functions as a quick means of support for the words of another. "This" is a one-word affirmation of someone else's expressed opinion (see Fark.com).
Like the previous three words addressed, “this” can be and often is defined by a moment. There’s an appropriateness to “this,” and it happens by pose and by choice.
“This” is who we are. “This” is what we do.
“This” is a role, established by self and others.
“This” is a performance. “This” is attention and recognition from others.
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“At” is directive, often location-based and related to where we are in the moment. There’s also an intention to action; “at” leads us, points us somewhere, toward a means to an end. We see this in phrases like “at the plate” and even “at the rate of.”
The symbol for "at"* is also manifest in online communicative technologies. In email, @ is part of an intended location; on Twitter, @ is synonymous with “mention” and “reply.”
As part of a sentence or an online address, @ is a leader to what comes next, to where we want to go. @ implies motion in meaning; @ implies progression. @ is both present and future. @ is where we are and where we want to or will be.
*To my knowledge, the symbol for “at” has no other grand name, nothing so important as ampersand. However, it is known by a range of informal terms in languages other than English. Most of these relate to what @ looks like, including miukumauku (Finnish for “meow meow”), klammeraffe (German for “hanging monkey”) and sobachka (Russian for “little dog”).
Fallout 3 is exceptionally rich in this kind of storytelling, though it's worth pointing out that environmental storytelling is almost always backstory-telling: it's about what has happened here, not about what is happening or might happen in the future.
That works for Fallout 3 because, in apocalyptic wastelands, most of the present is about the past, so that's all right. And it goes together well with the player-controlled pacing of the main plot, because it means that there is also player-controlled pacing of exposition. It's as though when you had Moby Dick assigned to you in high school, you were allowed to do the chapters on whaling as an interactive diorama sequence, and you got to skip the encyclopedic chapter on ambergris entirely.
Among respondents to the Babson survey, YouTube was the preferred tool for teaching, with more than a fifth of professors using material from the video-sharing community in class. (Less than five percent said they use Twitter to transmit information to students.) Facebook and LinkedIn, meanwhile, were the most popular tools for communicating with colleagues. About ten percent of all respondents instructed students to create content within a social media community — such as contributing to a blog or posting a video — as part of an assignment.