Business Insider highlights the Google Ngram Viewer which searches the Google book database for frequency of words. The viewer can take multiple words and graph their usage between 1800 and 2000. It’s a good way to measure how terms for…
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Browsing On Sunday: Words, Social Media and the Courts, and SCT Opinions
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Google Adds Social Search, Offers Unfiltered Results As An Option
Google rolled out a new search feature today. Google account holders can now get social search results related to materials in Google+ as integrated into search results. The details are announced on the Official Google Blog in a post entitled…
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Shear Evaluates His 10 2011 Social Media Law Predictions
Unlike many folks who justmake annual predictions, Bradley Shear has actually assessed his 2011 predictions. On Shear on Social Media Law, see Part One and Part Two of his reality checking evaluation. He observes “[f]or 2011, 9 of my 10…
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Law School Applicants Now Have The Social Test Along With The LSAT
It comes as no surprise that a growing number of law school admission offices are starting to use the “public” web as a way of investigating potential law students. A Kaplan survey is showing that 41% of admissions officers have…
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On Social Media and "Turdles"
I signed up for a Facebook account way back when just to see what it took to do so and would kill it if I ever remember my login. My blanket apology for not “frending folks” was published here. Had…
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Social Media Demographics
Flowtown’s infographic on the demographics of the world’s most popular social media sites. Click to enlarge. [JH]
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Progress of the World’s Women: UN Report on Achieving Women’s Equality is a Fundamental Human Right and a Social and Economic Imperative
From the foreword of UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2011–2012: In Pursuit of Justice by Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women: As the first major UN Women report, this edition of Progress of the World’s…
Political Realist & Combat Veteran Les Rayburn on Fighting Waste and Corruption
Pro-SeBlog.Com Founder “Rabble Rousin'” Rich Bergeron interviewed Les Rayburn recently. Rayburn is a Political Realist and Highly Decorated Combat Veteran serving in every conflict since Vietnam.
Rayburn and Rich discussed how the budget and deficit have practically bankrupted America, focusing on Social issues and spending problems that contribute to the problem. Rayburn’s argument also target how politicians in America have abused their power and need to be voted out by the people.
Noting is getting fixed, and neither side is willing to compromise. How do we fix America? Will we need to think outside the box? Les Rayburn has some great ideas about what needs to be done to get America back to the country it once was.
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Gov 2.0: Guides for Social Media Tools
In How many social media tools does it take to change an agency? It depends, but the agency has to really want to change, Business of Government blog, John Bordeaux writes [S]ocial media tools, both inside and outside the firewall,…
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Some Thoughts on Social Media
I came across an article in Reesecampus (“Your link to Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina”) about how Professor Paul Jones is quitting email for social communication via blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the like. Professor Jones is…
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