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Utah’s state parks diving into social media

Utah’s state parks appeal to and are visited by people from around the world each year, but serving residents of the state and the local communities is vital in their overall success. Managers and employees at some of the 43 units of Utah State Parks are exploring a new venue for connecting with both groups: social media.

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The Inner Mechanics of a College All-Nighter

Notebooks, Pencil and Pen (Photo credit: Chris Campbell) Perhaps one of the most popularly practiced rituals of the college lifestyle is the infamous all-nighter. This isn’t like your high school all-nighter, where you would stay up and party or talk to someone on the phone. This, is no walk in the park.

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Twitter and literature: unlikely bedfellows?

Twitter’s forthcoming ‘celebration of storytelling’ will severely test a medium that works best for conversation As Twitter gears up for its first fiction festival, a professor from Michigan State University has heralded tweeting as a “new literary practice”,…

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Goals behind social media use [infographic]

Posted by Kate Rinsema Educational institutions have definitely jumped onboard the social media bandwagon in a big way, but how are they using it and how successful have their efforts been? BestCollegesOnline.com took a look at the numbers to see if social media in education is making the grade. Via Best Colleges Online.

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Goals behind social media use [infographic]

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Harvard Offers FREE Online Course Study For Introduction to Accounting and Financial Statements [Register NOW]

Well it seems that Harvard is jumping aboard the ship of online education that being similar to MIT’s MITx program. As we covered the story of Harvard and MIT joining hands back in May launching the edX program allowing students to take online education courses easily.

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MOOCs are really a platform

We can officially declare massive open online courses (MOOCs) as the higher education buzzword for 2012. Between Coursera, edX and smaller open course offerings, nearly $100 million in funding has been directed toward MOOCs in that past 8 months.

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Professor explains the surprisingly legit physics of Spider-Man

According to a professor from Emory University that “does whatever a spider can” bit is surprisingly accurate. Let’s say you walk into a screening of The Amazing Spider-Man. You settle into your seat,…

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The 6 Key Elements of a Successful Weight Loss Business on the World Wide Web

Of all the keys and secrets one can think of that can open the floodgates of success to any genre of business, planning is the most critical. Failure to plan, said a wise man, is planning to fail. This adage has proved true for businesses from before the advent of computers or the Internet.

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