Social Media and its influence

A lot is being said about Twitter these days in the education arena, and it seems to be a growing trend. Despite its reach, Twitter still offers a lot of r

Twitter is becoming the new job board, and it is also becoming the new résumé. Some recruiters are turning to the social network to post jobs, while job seekers are trying to summarize their CVs in 140 characters or six-second videos.

The microblogging giant has warned news outlets that "these attacks will continue," particularly against high profile media organizations.

The Syrian Electronic Army struck again over the weekend, hitting another media organization's Twitter account. The latest attack appears to be in retaliation against Twitter for suspending its account.

The Telegraph is hacked on Facebook and Twitter by the Syrian Electronic Army.

I have rehearsed this scenario before, but try to imagine we live in a world where printed media had not been invented, and our only source of information and entertainment was the Internet.

And then someone came up with a really smart idea, and gathered together a group of really clever people, got them to sift through the mass of information that's freely available in digital form, decide what's important and what's not, what you can trust and what you can't, and put it all together in a thing called a newspaper, which can be delivered to your very home.

It's portable, it's not dependent on a wireless connection and, for many, there is also an intrinsic pleasure in turning over the pages. I posit this idea not to promote the virtue of newspapers, but to illustrate my growing feeling that one of the most prized - and undervalued - commodities in the modern world is curation.

In this series of video interviews, we learn how one school in Kansas uses social media to empower student learning and connect with parents.

Microsoft warnt vor einem neu entdeckten Trojaner, der auf Facebook-Nutzer abzielt und deren Konten kapert.