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Communities
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on Women in Workplace
Sheryl Sandberg delivered the commencement speech at the all-women college Barnard this past week, and she had quite a message to deliver to these ladies. Sheryl Sandberg is the COO at Facebook, and in charge of keeping techs most popular company in check. But the challenge she has posed to these Barnard grads was simple. She explained to the women that essentially, “men run the world”. She explained that women have the opportunity, now more than ever, to realize their ambition and act on it. While it may seem that many tech, and even social media companies, are run by men, she encourages women everywhere to get involved. She did not become Number 2 at Facebook without ambition. Graduates and parents alike applauded the speech, with one student even saying that her speech was a “perfect fit” for the way they teach at Barnard. What do you think? Is the gender gap still too large? Will tech companies be willing to hire female leaders with open arms?
Tools and Technology
Proposed Law Would Require Social Networks to be Private by Default
The newest move in the fight for social media privacy has come from California Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro). She has proposed a new law that would change the way social networks operate their privacy systems, and these social networks are not happy about it.
Communities
Speaking Up in Class, Silently, Using Social Media
Long gone are the days when teachers were handing out detentions for using a cell phone in class. Now, a movement has started in which teachers are embracing social networks like Twitter to help their students communicate more freely. For example, a teacher from Iowa allows her students to keep a running online commentary during class while reading poetry. That way, students feel free to express themselves without interrupting the poem, and without feeling pressure to speak in front of the class. While only a small group of teachers have adopted this method, it seems to be having a positive influence on the classrooms that have had the opportunity to be taught this way. These students no longer feel pressured, but rather encouraged and free to express themselves. What do you think about using social media in the classroom?
Tools and Technology
Tag Pages in Facebook photos
Facebook rolled out a new feature this week, allowing users to tag places in their photos. This means, that whenever you have the sudden urge to tag your favorite brand in a photo, you will be able to do so. 
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Communities
How Bin Laden news spread on Twitter
It’s hard to deny what a week it has been. With the announcement of the death of Bin Laden coming in late on Sunday night, patriotism has been ruler this week. However, it wasn’t the President who had the first honors of divulging this news. It wasn’t even a live broadcast. Twitter was the first to break the news, and once it hit the social site, it spread like a wildfire. CNN reporter Steve Brusk was the first to tweet the information at around 7:25pm PST. The President did not go on to make a formal announcement until 12pm EST. Once the news hit, Twitter was buzzing about what the President would speak about and thanks for our troops were overwhelming. An “Osama Bin Laden is Dead” Facebook page went viral, adding thousands of likes by the minute. It was an overwhelming use of social media, which proved itself once again as one of our most trusted and used news sources.
Tools & Technology
Gogobot Gets More Interesting With Foursquare & Facebook Integration
Gogobot has been described as “Yelp for travel,” or “TripAdvisor that puts users first.” Read More
COMMUNITIES
WordPress challenges bloggers to post daily in 2011
If you’ve already made your new years resolutions for 2011, whip that list back out because WordPress has one more for you to add. WordPress is challenging users to create at least one blog post each day for 2011. There are dedicated tags (postaday2011?) that users can use in order to make sure their posts are counting. While this may seem like an intimidated feat for many, WordPress has also included a list of inspirational and evocative topics for users to check, just in case writers block pops up during the 365-day adventure.
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES
Schweppes App Lets You Hack Your Facebook Profile
Ever since Facebooks latest redesign, users everywhere have been coming up with ways to display their creativity using the photo stream at the top of profile pages. Schweppes, and Amsterdam-based digital agency, Super Social, have decided to get in on the action as well. Their latest app allows users to use one profile photo to spread across the entire photo stream. Check out this video for full details, and to learn how to “hack” your profile as well.
MEASUREMENT
Facebook Users Uploaded A Record 750 Million Photos Over New Year’s
After all of the celebrating, it seems that most Facebook users rushed straight to their computers to upload their New Years photos. In fact, all of these users set a Facebook record and uploaded 750 Million photos to the site. Most of the time, the average daily number of photo uploads is around 100 Million, but due to this crazy huge influx of photos over the holidays, that number is now higher. Looks like Facebook has more to celebrate this year than simply the new year!
INFLUENCERS
Tech’s Winners and Losers of 2010
2010 was quite a year for the technology industry, but it was an even bigger year for those behind those tech companies.
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