By popular demand, answers to those burning questions….

What’s In It?
An essential guide to getting the most out of using the internet and internet technology for studying. Areas covered include: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, online writing) and using external resources for educational use (citeulike, Google scholar and delicious).

How Can I Obtain It? (UK)
If you are a UK customer, all titles in the Palgrave Pocket Study Skills series are exclusively available from Blackwells Bookshops or at their website.

How Can I Obtain It? (Rest of the World)
If you are an International customer, you can purchase all titles in the Palgrave Pocket Study Skills series directly from Palgrave or your local bookseller.

About the Pocket Study Skills Series
For the time-pushed student, the Pocket Study Skills pack a lot of advice into a little book. Each focuses on a single crucial aspect of study – giving students step by step guidance, handy tips and clear advice on how to approach the important areas which are continually at the core of their study ethic.

Want More Information?
To request an inspection copy or download a sample chapter from the book visit the publisher Palgrave Macmillan.

Contact Author
To contact the author for an interview.

Social Networking sites are no longer the preserve of the young according to the latest Market Report from Ofcom the UK communications regulator….

ages 35-54 proportion logging on up 7% to 35%
ages 25-34 proportion logging on up 6% to 46%

Also of interest Twitter now has 2.6 million unique users in the UK whilst Second Life interest has plummeted down 67%.

Daily Telegraph Story

Ofcom Market Report

This handy guide shows students how to get the most out of using the internet and internet technology. Areas covered include: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, online writing) and using external resources (citeulike, Google scholar and del.ici.ous).

Now set for release on 7th August 2009 !

More Details from the publisher or you can order a copy from Blackwells here….

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More (Pocket Study Skills)

Habitat has provided a perfect case study in how not to use social media with its clumsy attempts to insert popular internet keywords into its promotional Twitter posts writes Joanna Perry….

Retail Week Story

This calls to mind the Cillit Bang blog controversy from 2005.

See also:

Habitat says misuse of Twitter keywords was a mistake

Cillit Bang clanger

Social media on the Internet is empowering, engaging, and educating health care consumers and providers, according to a new report, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media, published by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)……

View Report

Source : www.asahp.org

Excellent online article by Howard Swains from the new Wired UK Site on how some online tales of death and suffering are fictional – “pseuicides”. Some are contrived to titillate or garner attention, some result from something more serious, and some are the result of a uniquely modern psychiatric disorder known as Munchausen by internet.

Reports of my death

Source : Wired UK

When I came to write my study guide – Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More – I never really envisioned it being offered for sale all over the world (although the concepts comfortably fit global teaching environments and university students or staff members trying to get their head around the world of Web 2.0). It’s therefore been a nice surprise to see it being offered in a variety of different worldwide locations including:

Canada
USA
Japan
France
and Germany

and given me a renewed perspective on the global phenomenon and concepts of web 2.0 from an academic viewpoint. I hope it is internationally of use.

ps not to leave the UK out :

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More (Pocket Study Skills)

The Educause Horizon Report for 2009 has just been published. It makes predictions about the emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on education. This year’s predictions are: mobile devices, cloud computing, geo-everything, the personal web, semantic-aware applications, and smart objects.

more details

Source : Iamlearn Mailing List

Interactive posters with educational potential….

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Source : OLWeekly

TV Week reports on the use of Twitter to track user satisfaction….

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