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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media. Thats why many of todays colleges and universities are now offering "social media" classes as an option for their students. Lesson # 2 Know What Web 2.0 on the subject of understanding Web 2.0. RWW Daily by Email. RWW Weekly Wrap-up. 25 Comments.

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Andrew Sutherland, 17 Year Old Creator of Quizlet ยป Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT. Studying my SAT words (believe it or not, vocabulary is not one of my strong suits) is not as much a distant memory as it is for others who have been out of high school for 8 years.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Randy Pausch , a former lecturer at Carnegie Mellon, inspired not only students in his class but the world in his last ever speech before he passed away from pancreatic cancer. Inspiring Want to watch a video that’s nothing like the above but motivates you to do your best? Inspiring videos, too, can be viral. Another great post.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

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Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Most of the kids in my classes did not care. Here’s a tip for parents who wants to steer their children away form games and into educational activities as such as writing. I know that as an aspiring author in my elementary school years (I knew I wanted to be one when I was 5!), Games are a way to degenerate young people.

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How to Write a Social Media Policy for Your Company

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You can tell because they use neat buzzwords like โ€œWeb 2.0โ€ and โ€œmicroblogs.โ€). While your brandโ€™s social media policy probably isnโ€™t going to make headlines by enacting six-figure fines for tweets , here are some other high-stakes, best-in-class examples. Flag it for review at this time next year. Adidas Group.

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Zicam: Loss of Taste and Smell - The Reputation Management Fiasco.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It was a link to a class action suit that impacts Zicam users who have lost their taste (and/or smell) by using the spray. I didn’t realize I could contact the FDA, for example — all I used was Google, only to lead me to that page on the 1+ year old class action lawsuit. I decided to search for “ zicam tastebuds.&#