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Digital Life: Networking Web sites won't get you a job, but they can open doors
Mar 05, 2009 |
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I have no idea what I'm doing on LinkedIn. I log into the professional networking site maybe once a month, I accept connection requests from people whose names I don't recognize, and I never contact anyone.
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New study examines benefit of internet access, social media networking on seniors' health
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Many elderly adults are increasingly isolated and grapple with depression, loneliness and declines in physical health. The UAB Department of Sociology and Social Work will use a five-year, $1.9 million National Institute ...
Job hunting? Take those wild party pics off Facebook
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Nearly half of US employers research the online profiles of job candidates on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn, according to a new survey.
University of Minnesota study uncovers the educational benefits of social networking sites
Jun 20, 2008 |
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[B]Low-income students are in many ways just as technologically savvy as their counterparts[/B] In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social net ...
Facebook, MySpace ban New York sex offenders
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Facebook and MySpace have closed the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in New York state under a law combating online predators, officials said Tuesday.
Indiana U researchers launch social networking and research management tool for scientists
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Indiana University researchers have introduced Laboratree, a web-based solution to the complex problems of scientific collaboration.
Can social networking help consumers get healthier?
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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Can social networking sites help people make wise health decisions? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it depend on people's willingness to take action on the information they gain from the sites.
MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest
Dec 07, 2009 |
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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 ...
LinkedIn connects with ex-Yahoo exec as new CEO
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc. executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job running the Internet's largest site devoted to professional networking.
Microsoft, HP expand workplace tools partnership
May 19, 2009 |
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Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced plans on Tuesday to expand their partnership designed to create tools and products that improve workplace communications and efficiency.
'Unfriend' is New Oxford American word of the year
Nov 16, 2009 |
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The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday.
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