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The Evolution of our Social Media Team

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The use of social media at our university is evolving. In the Fall of 2009, Education professor Alec Couros and I had a conversation about the seemingly endless number of ways social media could be used on campus. A few emails later, the University of Regina Social Media Users Group (URSMUG) was born.

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On The Death Of Google Reader

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If social media, and the Internet experience in general, is founded on groups, other people, and relationships, why are we still depending on ourselves to find all the news that’s relevant to us? Our networks are much more efficient at aggregating and gathering information relevant to us because they’re different from us.

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The Intern and the Executive Coach, Part I: Clueless

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The possibility of getting picked up by one of the really big sites/aggregators? It looked legit – in fact, it has a decent social media presence – and I called it. And to be honest, there’s a prissy schoolmarm inside me who’d also like to “out” them. Can you imagine the traffic?!

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

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Path also taps into this need but the most exclusive social network is Pair where it’s just for you and your significant other. It aggregates all the ways that you currently keep in touch with your special someone and really taps into the desire to never be apart from the one you love. Networking.

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Playing With Paper.li

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Amplify’d from www.nevillehobson.com Connect your community with a Twitter daily newspaper About a month ago, I discovered Paper.li , a service that aggregates content linked to by people in a Twitter community into an online newspaper. &# here’s your answer. Regardless, thanks for visiting! Sign out Leave your comment here.

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Nice writeup on paper.li aka @SmallRivers from @jangles.

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Amplify’d from www.nevillehobson.com Connect your community with a Twitter daily newspaper About a month ago, I discovered Paper.li , a service that aggregates content linked to by people in a Twitter community into an online newspaper. &# here’s your answer. Regardless, thanks for visiting! Sign out Leave your comment here.

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Thank you Google, for the Antithesis of a More Social Network

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The need for a social network that automatically aggregates all my “friends&# and then cuts off the irrelevant noise. One doesn’t really marry a random person just because there’s an option for divorce, do they?). Google+ cuts out the noise by adopting the “follow/unfollow&# conundrum, very similar to Twitter.