• 20th July
    2011
  • 20
  • 14th July
    2011
  • 14
'...Today’s college grads need to be aware that the rising trend in Silicon Valley is to evaluate employees every quarter, not annually. Because the merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.'

(Source: thesmithian)

  • 9th July
    2011
  • 09
  • 6th July
    2011
  • 06
  • 5th July
    2011
  • 05
University [in London] creates a degree in 'Creating Social Media'

Based on global examples, you will explore the technological and intellectual questions that have risen to prominence with the social web. You will critique existing approaches and tools, and plan, develop, hack and implement ground-breaking applications and campaigns. You will not only analyse: you will create.

New social media platforms, at their best, develop new online forms of connecting, relating, sharing and competing. Effective and innovative social media creation, therefore, involves deep theoretical and practical knowledge of both software development and social processes.

You will learn how to develop and hack social media software, how social worlds operate, how software tools enable different forms of social practice, and how new social media projects can be launched successfully. You will accelerate the impact of social media in your chosen field.

You will become proficient in

  • Computing skills in software development for new social media platforms, mashups, apps, and tools. This includes both coding and data skills, and a hacker approach

  • Theories of social processes and in methods to research them. 

  • Adapting social media to a variety of technological contexts and to the needs of specific communities

  • Surfacing the assumptions and limitations embedded in software 

  • Critically assessing contemporary discourses about social media and social change

  • Project managing social media ventures, and keeping users included at all stages

  • Creating social media interventions that address social processes in new ways.

Please see how to apply for information on applying to this programme.

(Source: kenyatta)

  • 5th July
    2011
  • 05
  • 2nd July
    2011
  • 02
  • 30th June
    2011
  • 30
  • 30th June
    2011
  • 30
  • 30th June
    2011
  • 30
  • 30th June
    2011
  • 30
  • 26th June
    2011
  • 26
'...A new company called Social Intelligence, just approved for operation by the Federal Trade Commission last week, is billing itself as an ultra-modern resource for companies looking to keep out drunks and other riffraff. Using deep search tools that make Google look like AltaVista, Social Intelligence will provide potential employers with an ultra-modern background check, one that scours the internet for a person's blog posts, pictures, and uploads to social media sites. If the employer doesn't like Social Intelligence's file on you, you don't get the job. Not only that, but Social Intelligence then keeps your collected information in a file for seven years.'

(Source: thesmithian, via drox)

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