My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/19/2010 thru 2/25/2010 1. RT @VenessaMiemis: 16 free ebooks about social media via @fredzimny. Just look at this list of titles and authors : Building a Social Media Team, Amber Naslund, ContentCory Doctorow Customer Service, The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media, Brian Solis Fish Where the Fish Are – Mapping Social Media to the Buying Cycle, Chris Brogan Getting a Foothold in Social Media, Amber Naslund Let’s Talk: Social Media for Small Business, John Jantsch New Media and the Air Force, United States Air Force Public Affairs Agency Social Media and Network Starting Points, Chris Brogan Social Media Time Management, Amber Naslund Social Media Tips: Sharing lessons learned to help your business grow, Jeff Hayzlett The Art of Community, Jono Bacon The Essential Guide to Social Media, Brian Solis The New Rules of Viral Marketing, David Meerman Scott The Simple Web: A Philosophy for Getting What You Want, Skellie The Social Media Starter Kit, Amber Naslund What is Social Media?, Antony Mayfield 2. RT @VenessaMiemis: new post – reimagining human/social capital & how to spark innovation - Tapping the Network to Facilitate Innovation – How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with a human capital inventory, be used
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Commentary On the Digital Divide from the Chief Executives of Netflix & CommonSenseMedia
If you’re thinking about transliteracy you almost have to be thinking about the digital divide. What does it mean? Is it real? How will we close the gap? This New York Times piece Will the Digital Divide Close by Itself? From the Google’s Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age provides a look at and arguments about the digital divide from two different perspectives. From Jim Steyer, chief executive of CommonSense Media and co-sponsor of the event “every kid needs to be digitally literate by the 8th grade” and called for a major public education campaign to make that happen. He argued that technology and learning are synonymous and that schools, parents, and kids must get up to speed in the next five years. On the other hand: Reed Hastings, the founder and chief executive of Netflix, contradicted him directly, saying it would take well more than five years to bridge the divide. Mr. Hastings, an avid education philanthropist and proponent of school reforms, argued that at the advent of any new technology — television, cars, even rockets — people get riled up and wring their hands over a growing gap between the haves and have-nots. He said that gaps narrow naturally
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