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Facebook Bets on Virtual Reality: Purchases VR firm Oculus

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If you haven’t heard of it, Oculus VR is a virtual reality startup out of Irvine, CA. to produce “immersive virtual reality technology that’s wearable and affordable.” Brian Fung , tech writer for the Washington Post, agrees, predicting that Facebook will use virtual reality to strengthen its grip on social interactions.

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Making social media happen in government: case study of NSW Department of Education

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I’m at the launch meeting of the social media community of practice set up by Institute of Public Administration NSW (IPAA). At the conference I wrote about the case study of Queensland Police , which is a great example of government bodies creating value through social media. Here are a few live notes from the event. .

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Nonprofit takes D&D digital to help kids who struggle socially, and to study its own impact

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The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. It seems, instead, that they shook their die and rolled a virtual 20.

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Engaging Students with Interactive Social Studies Simulations

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Among all the subjects taught at school, social studies remains a challenge for most teachers to teach in an engaging way. It is possible to leverage many other forms of interactive teaching methods – like social studies simulations – to achieve the desired outcomes from a lesson. Table of Contents I.

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7 Shifts: The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications

Trends in the Living Networks

Melcrum recently released a report on How to use social media to solve critical communication issues , with as usual some great case studies and many practical insights. I was asked to write the closing section in the report, on The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications. Email use will be eroded by social media.

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Alexa, please! Study suggests kids know how to talk differently to virtual assistants and humans

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Children in the study interacted with different animated images. (UW Kids taught to say “Bungo” to get a smart assistant to speed up know they are talking to a robot and don’t use the same tone with humans, according to a new study. The new study recruited 22 families from the Seattle area.

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Ranking Social Media : spf13.com

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Ranking Social Media. For some reason people have decided to apply this sort of ranking to social media. The problem with applying this commonly used metric is that in social media, there isnâ??t Parasites, virtual users created solely to artificially inflate follower count. A quick and dirty study on Social Media.

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