WebQuest Training Materials Templates provide an easy way to get started creating your WebQuest. Since 1995, we've provided templates for the Student and Teacher pages as simple, single-page documents. Now, to keep up with the state of the art in web page design (note: as it was in 1999 when this page was written), we're adding framed versions in several flavors. The advantages that frames provide are that learners will have less scrolling to do and teachers will be able to concentrate on one small part of the design process at a time. It's less daunting that way and we've found that the process goes more quickly with the new versions. The WebQuest Anatomy Page describes what each subpage is all about.
Visualize Live Tweets What is this? TweetBeam is an interactive Twitter visualization Tweets are loaded real-time from Twitter Sit back and relax as the tweets come in! Socialite by FaceTime - security management and compliance solution for social networks FaceTime Communications has introduced Socialite, a security management and compliance solution for social networks. Socialite provides granular control of applications like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and is available as a software-as-a-service deployment (SaaS) or as an on-premises solution as a module of FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway. As a hybrid solution it offers the ability to define an on-network policy and a roaming policy for people off-network. Socialite offers content controls for more than 1,000 social networks to ensure compliance with a variety of rules and regulations.
21 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed Yes, it's that time again — time to delve back into a week's worth of social media goodness and catch up on any insights you might have overlooked. This round-up features a host of analysis and resources for social non-profits, great mobile app reviews, and some paper saving tips for your small business. So grab some popcorn, pull a chair up to your favorite Internet machine, and take in some wisdom from the social media gurus below. Background Briefing - 1 November 2009 - Internet piracy Anti-Piracy Advertisement: The pirates are out to get you. Don't let them brand you with their mark. Piracy funds organised crime. 5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Your Company's Social Media Tools If your enterprise is shopping around for an internal social media provider, chances are that you have thought about putting together your own request for proposals (RFP). A number of organizations have put together templates and suggestions over the years, and the latest one comes in the form of a Slideshare document from Sprinklr that outlines six things any social media RFP should include. The oldest and perhaps most linked-to template, the Social Media RFP Template and Bill of Rights, comes from Maggie Fox's Social Media Group.
Reputation Systems are Everywhere! [Building Web 2.0 Reputation Systems] Reputation systems impact your life every day, even when you don't realize it. You need reputation to get through life efficiently, because reputation helps you make sound judgments in the absence of any better information. Reputation is even more important on the web, which has trillions of pages to sort through-each one competing for your attention.
Want to Avoid Getting Banned on Social Media? Learn the Rules Ann Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. Her newest project, My Blog Guest, is a free platform for guest bloggers and blog owners. Follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty. For as long as I have been actively participating in social media, I have determined that no one is ever immune from getting banned.
blogs.imediaconnection We are so awash in data that we seek simple ways to find meaning in it all. But simplicity is not a virtue if it undermines your ability to derive a realistic understanding of your subject. To illustrate, let’s look at the way social media has been reported on during the presidential election. During the primaries earlier this year, it became apparent that the media was going to tell the social story quantitatively. Hence, candidates were judged on their numbers of Twitter followers, Facebook likes, and Klout scores.
socialized » Brand shrinkage: a real business cost of not understanding social media One of the toughest things about social media is measuring its effectiveness. What may be harder still is measuring the effect of not being involved in social media, and being unaware of negative buzz about your company — or being aware of it and deciding to do nothing about it. I chatted about this today with Paul Philp, VP Product Development for dna13, and I suggested the term “brand shrinkage” to describe the difficult to measure but very real effect of unchecked consumer dissent. In the retail industry, shrinkage is the percentage of inventory that breaks, is spoiled, is stolen by employees, or that simply vanishes. For many retail businesses, a few percentage points of shrinkage are considered an acceptable cost of doing business.
Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) - National Archives of Australia The Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) is a three-level hierarchical thesaurus that describes the business functions carried out across Commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia. It contains 25 high-level functions, each with second and third level terms, as well as non-preferred terms and related terms. A scope note describes the range of activities covered by a preferred term and provides cross-references.