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What is Goodreads?

by Barbara J. Feldman April 1, 2013
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Goodreads is a social network that revolves around book reviews and recommendations. Founded in 2007, Goodreads has 16 million members, 30,000 book clubs and over 23 million book reviews. And Goodreads recently announced that they are being acquired by Amazon. For me, the best part of Goodreads is their recommendation engine. Rate just twenty books, [...]

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What is a Facebook ‘Like’ Scam?

by Barbara J. Feldman January 25, 2013
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You’ve seen them on your walls, posts liked by one of your friends claiming a sick and dying child wants a million likes, or a friend will get her apartment rent free if she gets a million likes, or my sister Mallory has Down Syndrome and doesn’t think she’s beautiful. The real story behind these [...]

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What is a Twitter Chat?

by Barbara J. Feldman October 8, 2012
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A Twitter chat is a an organized event (sometimes occurring at regular times) to tweet on a pre-arranged hashtag. It is similar to a Twitter party, but while a party may only occur once or twice, Twitter chats frequently recur at the same time weekly or monthly. For example, #gtchat is the hashtag for a [...]

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Risks of Social Media

by Barbara J. Feldman September 10, 2012
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Hi Mrs. Feldman, I have two daughters, 10 and 12. My 12 year old daughter recently reconnected with a friend she knew from 3rd grade and we took her to the movies with us 2 weekends ago. When I told one of my friends about the outing she pulled me aside and showed me the [...]

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How to Make a Trustworthy Tweet

by Barbara J. Feldman April 17, 2012

According to a recent study by Microsoft and Carnegie-Mellon University, a tweet is deemed as more trustworthy when it is retweet by someone you trust, or it contains a URL that you clicked through to. Some of the things that make a tweet untrustworthy are authors with the default Twitter user image, and poor grammar [...]

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How to Suppress Images on Pinterest

by Barbara J. Feldman March 6, 2012

Pinterest has answered the cries from webmasters who didn’t want their images showing up on the popular bookmarking site. To stop pinners, just insert the following meta tag in the head section of any page you want to block from Pinterest: <meta name=”pinterest” content=”nopin” />. For more about Pinterest and concerns of copyright infringement, read [...]

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