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Financial News' "The top financial tweeters to follow (Part I)"

www.efinancialnews.com/story/2013-05-06/the-top-financial-tweeters-part-1

The Twitterverse, to misquote Monty Python’s Galaxy Song, keeps on expanding and expanding. Here is a FAR from comprehensive list of the best financially focused accounts to follow.

Adam Posen (@AdamPosen)
President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and former member of Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. Advises central banks and governments and “proclaims” on economic policy.

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INCOOP (Inter-institutional Cooperation in the EU) + The role of social media in research and career building

www.in-coop.eu

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January 31, 2013, albertoalemanno.eu

Social media & research from Alberto Alemanno

I will give a talk titled ‘The role of social media in research and career building’ at the forthcoming Seminar on Theories & Concepts and Skills Training organised by the University of Luxembourg in the framework of INCOOP.

This multi-disciplinary Initial Training Network (ITN) on Inter-institutional Cooperation in the EU (INCOOP) brings together Universities, professional organisations and high-level officials that all share a long-term interest in a better understanding of the functioning of institutions in the European system of multi-level governance.

A copy of the provisional program is available here

Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter video: "How Twitter Builds New Foreign Policy Communities"

@SlaughterAM

www.princeton.edu/~slaughtr/

Social Networks May Inflate Self–Esteem, Reduce Self–Control

Colombia Business School Newsroom, January 14, 2013

Pittsburgh/New York—January 14, 2013—Users of Facebook and other social networks should beware of allowing their self–esteem—boosted by “likes” or positive comments from close friends—to influence their behavior: It could reduce their self–control both on and offline, according to an academic paper by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia Business School that has recently been published online in the Journal of Consumer Research. 

Titled “Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online Social Networks, Self–Esteem, and Self–Control,” the research paper demonstrates that users who are focused on close friends tend to experience an increase in self–esteem while browsing their social networks; afterwards, these users display less self–control. Greater social network use among this category of users with strong ties to their friends is also associated with individuals having higher body–mass indexes and higher levels of credit–card debt, according to the paper...

Wikipedia Education Program: "Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignments"

Speaking next Tuesday at Reinventing Higher Education, 3rd International Conference, October 22-23, 2012

www.rhe.ie.edu/speakers.php

Annie Lin,
Global Education Program Manager Wikimedia Foundation.

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outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program

The idea behind the Wikipedia Education Program is simple: Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignments.

Wikipedia is being used as a teaching tool in education around the world (see a list of programs). The Wikimedia Foundation currently runs four programs: Brazil, Canada, Egypt, and the United States.

In each country, volunteer Wikipedia Ambassadors assist professors as they assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia on course-related topics. The Wikimedia Foundation started the program in the United States in 2010, Canada in 2011, and Brazil and Egypt in 2012. More than 3,500 students have participated in the Wikipedia Education Program around the world, adding the equivalent of 20,000 printed pages of quality content to more than 6,000 Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.

Campus Ambassadors assist students in-person.

• Background on the Wikipedia Education Program
• Program overview (PDF)
• Fact sheet (PDF)
• Media coverage
• Visual identity
• Photo gallery
• Wikipedia Education Program Update (twice-monthly newsletter)

Social Media's Productivity Payoff - HBR blogs

Post of August 21, 2012, by James Manyika, Michael Chui, and Hugo Sarrazin

James Manyika is the San Francisco based director of the McKinsey Global Institute, where Michael Chui is a principal and senior fellow. Hugo Sarrazin, Director in McKinsey's Business Technology and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Practice, also co-authored this blog post.

Study: MBA Programs Don't Connect Social Media Dots

July 25, 2012. US News

Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites play limited b-school admissions roles, a UMass survey says.

Business school officials use social networking to promote their MBA programs but fail to track the return on those investments, according to a recent University of Massachusetts—Dartmouth study...

Business School events on Linkedin

http://events.linkedin.com/business-school