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	<description>Exploring Social Media for Lifelong Teaching &#38; Learning</description>
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		<title>When Remembering/Forgetting Personal Data Is Power</title>
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Via YouTube. Here’s the blurb via MediaBerkman:
A book talk with professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger who examines the technology that is facilitating the end of forgetting in his book, &#8220;Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age&#8220;. Mayer-Schönberger argues that in our quest for perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is hosting a forum on Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age on Oct. 27-28, 2010. Didn’t get an invitation? See below for details on tweeting questions and listening to a live stream of the talks.
Forty years after the &#8220;War on Poverty&#8221; and twenty-five years after &#8220;A Nation at Risk,&#8221; a new forum has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=133</link>
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		<title>Tim O&#8217;Reilly: The Twitter Book</title>
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Tim O&#8217;Reilly: The Twitter Book: Co-written by Tim O&#8217;Reilly, CEO of O&#8217;Reilly Media, and one of Twitter&#8217;s most-followed thought leaders, with more than 250,000 followers, this practical guide will help you: * Get comfortable using Twitter, whether you&#8217;re a new user or already have some experience with it * Learn all aspects of this service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web</title>
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TED Talk: At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what&#8217;s coming in the next 5,000 days?
Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Metrics: Why Do You Tweet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via ReadWriteWeb 073009:
eMarketer reports that, according to the &#8220;Consumer Internet Barometer,&#8221; the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends. About 29% use Twitter to update their status, 26% to find news, and 21% for work-related reasons. Oddly, only 0.3% said that they use Twitter for fun. Significantly more women [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Metrics: Geezers Say &#8220;Tweet Me! Tweet Me!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via NevilleHobson.com:
A new study from social media researchers Anderson Analytics shows how different generations are using social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Read more
via Inside Facebook:
According to the numbers, the top reasons for joining a social network across all generations are to “keep in touch with friends” and “for fun.” However, as expected, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Berkman Will Webcast Open Workshop on Google Books Settlement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Berkman Center for Internet &#38; Society will host an open workshop July 31 at Harvard Law School on Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement. Registration for in-person attendance is closed, but Berkman will webcast portions of the program. Remote participation  is encouraged. Follow the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=54</link>
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		<title>A New Social Media U Goes Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the University of the People launches this fall, the learning model will be based on social media and networking, and the tuition will be free. Founder Shai Resheff discussed the concept on WBUR’s Here and Now:
“The University of the People” is the brainchild of Israeli entrepreneur Shai Resheff. It’s doors open this fall. Resheff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=43</link>
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		<title>Metrics: Global Urge to Share Using Social Networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Perez reported today at ReadWriteWeb:
Universal McCann has released a new report that looks at the state of social media today. Apparently, this trend is showing no sign of slowing down. In fact, it&#8217;s still growing. From posting photos to writing blogs, the desire to share has become a universal phenomenon. However, the latest report [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=40</link>
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		<title>The Internet, Media and Emerging Technologies: Uses, Attitudes, Trends and International Comparisons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CIP07_CANADA_ONLINE-REPORT-FINAL .pdf (application/pdf Object).
The Canadian Internet Project (CIP) provides comprehensive information on how Canadians use the Internet, emerging technologies and traditional media and how they feel about them, As an ongoing longitudinal study, CIP compares patterns and trends over time.
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		<link>http://engagedlifelearning.com/?p=32</link>
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