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Useful notes on what institutions & companies should do when formulating a strategy for engagement with SNS (& not just whether their employee should be allowed access)
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Overview of news, moves, development, key trends etc re SNS (or SoNet, as they seem to be beginning to be called)
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Summary of recent moves by large companies into sponsoring SNS for younger childdren (e.g. 6-13/14) rather than teens. Approaches tend to be built around toys (faintly reminiscent of the sorts of offer/magazine/fan club membership that you could send off
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Highlights the need for what you might call ‘digital outreach’ – contextualised help for children & young people, not the standard ‘be safe’ footer link which as anastasia says leads to an information-heavy page which is unlikely to get read
Recently Read Elsewhere
- The Value of Dynamic Signals
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- Still climbing
- Facebook's Own Estimates Show Declining Student Numbers; Now More Grandparents Than High School Users
- First, think…
- THATCamp hopefully the Model for Future Conferences
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- State of loneliness Charles Leadbeater argues that supportive relationships are key to tackling social ills | Society | The Guardian"For most of the last decade, we have seen public services as systems and standards, to be managed and rationalised. Instead, we should reimagine public services as feeding the relationships that sustain us in everyday life." Potential underpinning material for LTCs digital engagement strategy development??
- transliteracy - Google Searchuseful staring point for materials on Transliteracies "transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks."
- AMPLIFIED LEICESTER: Project summary"A city-wide experiment in social media Amplified individuals use social media and the web to enhance their abilities to sense their world, create shared resources and act collaboratively" Not sure how far this has progressed yet but it looks interesting - variant on hyperlocal apart from anything else?
- 1 rule and 6 steps to embracing Social Media in Local Government « Carl’s NotepadSome general thoughts on key steps towards constructive use of social media in public services
- Final Draft – Social Media and Online Participation – Supplementary Guidance « Carl’s NotepadPart 2 of 2 supplementary guidance on particular topics/for perticular groups
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