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WordCamp NYC – BuddyPress in Local/HyperLocal Journalism (NJ no less)

November 20, 2009

Image by cloneofsnake via Flickr I wrote this as a draft when live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  but have not had a chance to publish since. This was one of the best sessions, demonstrating how BuddyPress was used to create a social networking to support citizen journalism. Speakers:  Ted Mann, @turkeymonkey What’s HyperLocal – neighborhood [...]

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Social Networks, Undergrads, Grades and Growth

May 3, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Danah Boyd posted about Facebook and how it impacts undergrads. http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/05/01/facebook_and_ac.html The post discusses the media’s treatment to some findings around Facebook use and the correlation to high/low grades. Boyd, Microsoft Research’s new star and a social-media guru with great crowd of followers, focuses on teen use of social networks. It is [...]

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