High school students are displaying serious online spin control skills in their college quests. It's more like "public image management" than the reputation management so often referred to in online-safety discussions. In an interview for ReadWriteWeb.com, a high school teacher in Reno, Nev., called it "admissions jiu jitsu," referring to his students' workarounds for college and university … [Read more...] about Smart public image management in social media
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Facebook’s ‘Timeline’: More than a new look
If Facebook's newly fashioned user profile, Timeline, says anything, it says that what you post on the social Web is forever (but it does say more – keep reading). In many ways, Timeline is a safety- and privacy-education tool right in your face (on your screen), as you go. Because "Timeline collects and chronicles everything you’ve ever posted to Facebook," Slate reports. It used to be that all … [Read more...] about Facebook’s ‘Timeline’: More than a new look