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Business School via Facebook

December 3rd, 2010

Get your MBA via Facebook? Not quite.  But the possibility is getting closer.

In October, the well-regarded London School of Business and Finance launched Global MBA, a Facebook app built to introduce and attract students to the school with free course materials delivered online.

The Wired Campus blog reports that the app allows students to “sample” courses with video lectures,  message boards, and note-taking tools. If they decide they can hack it in an online business school, they can then enroll in the paid program.

As students and schools alike grapple with increasing demand and higher costs, platforms like Facebook will be integral in helping previously brick-and-mortar  schools introduce online  courses.

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Alicia Keys Finds Blogger on Monster

June 29th, 2010

No, it’ s not us. Monster.com has announced that Alica Keys used Monster’s 6Sense(TM) search technology to find her head blogger. The announcement was made last Friday on Good Morning America.

Alexis Tirado, a former online editor at Martha Stewart and freelance writer, has landed the position for Keys’ soon-to-be-launched website IAAS.com (I Am A Super Woman).

More than 8,600 people applied for that job, and top candidates went through multiple rounds of interviews.

Tirado says that it’s a dream job:

“People have told me that dream jobs don’t exist but today I can defy that statement. As Langston Hughes once wrote, ‘Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.’ When Alicia Keys launched her search with Monster.com for a head blogger, I read the job description and knew I had to apply for it! Blogging about inspiring people? Bringing positive news to Super Women everywhere? Initiating a powerful discussion? What’s not to love about this job?”

IAAS.com (I Am A Super Woman) is set to launch in the fall of 2010 as a premier optimistic news and blogging source designed to empower, motivate, and captivate women everywhere.

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Is Google Preparing to Launch Its Next Assault on Social Media with “Google Me”?

June 29th, 2010
Google Me to Launch Soon?

According to a rumor propagated by Digg Founder Kevin Rose, Google’s next social experiment is a Facebook competitor called “Google Me” that will launch in the near future. Between Orkut, Buzz, and arguably a whole lot of other services, Google has had its fingers in a lot of social media pots. Is Google Me its next social experiment?

Google hasn’t confirmed the information.

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Study Shows Most Students “Addicted” to Social Media

April 26th, 2010

A new study titled, ‘24 Hours: Unplugged,’ from the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland, has found that most students can’t live without social media links like laptop, cell phones,  and Facebook.

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In the study, 200 students at the College Park campus were asked to avoid all media for one day and asked to write about their experience. The 200 students wrote more than 110,000 words, which is about the same number of words as a 400-page novel.

Project director Susan D. Moeller, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, says: “We were surprised by how many students admitted that they were ‘incredibly addicted’ to media.

One student gave the feedback: “Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort. When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life.

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The Perils of Facebook on Campus

March 25th, 2010

If you’re a poli sci student at the University of Chicago, be careful what you post as your Facebook status. Or, at least, probably don’t mention — even ironically — that you dreamt that your professor was assassinated because you had just been reading his book about the Israeli lobby and US foreign policy.  Sure, your status update was probably just a harmless reference to a funny or absolutely crazy dream. But with recent on-campus violence at NIU and Virginia Tech and elsewhere, people who don’t know your very dry sense of humor and literate wit just won’t get it.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/U-of-Chicago-Student/22040

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