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Dec 26, 2007, By Wayne Hanson

Show Me: Virtual IT Recruiting on Second Life
Why has Missouri CIO Dan Ross gone "in world" on Second Life to recruit his public-sector IT workforce?




 

chad vander veenThe Net Generation
Sep 01 2007 12:00AM
Have you ever visited, or even heard of, these Web sites: Flickr, Digg, IMDB, del.icio.us, Fark, Slashdot, Something Awful, YTMND, I-Mockery or Fazed? If not, you're neglecting the epicenter of the Internet-as-a-community phenomenon.


Washington Unveils MySpace Page and Facebook Group "Today people don't get their information from just one source. They might listen to the radio on their way to work, grab a newspaper at the office, watch the evening news, and logon to Facebook at night. We must adapt to their changing needs."


www.URBusted.com WWW.URBusted
Darren Bates wiggled his way out of the unfriendly confines of Hancock County Jail in Georgia last summer and fled to Philadelphia. The escaped auto-theft convict hung out on MySpace, the social networking site, free from law enforcement - or so he thought.

Ben Rattray Change.org Launches Political Donations for Facebook.com
Aims to turn Facebook into a vehicle for political change.


The New World of E-lections: Social Networking Web Sites
Social networking Web sites help humanize candidates and have the potential to reach new audiences -- something politicians are starting to recognize.


Get a (Real) Life
Jul 01 2007 06:06PM
"My virtual self could laze around on my own beach and get a fantastic tan



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