Social networking / edited by Kenneth Partridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Partridge, Kenneth, 1980-

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 83, no. 1.

Reference shelf ; v. 83, no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online social networks.

Social media.

Physical Description:

ix, 216 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : H.W. Wilson, 2011.

Contents:

From bulletin boards to Facebook : social networking comes of age. The complete history of social networking - CBBS to Twitter / Michael Simon ; What the past can tell us about the future of social networking / Mark Suster ; Facebook boosts smaller groups / Benny Evangelista ; Is Foursquare the new Facebook? / Helen A.S. Popkin ; The life and death of online communities / Phoebe Connelly ; Losing its cool / Mark Lacter ; Will social networks ever make money? / Andrew Saunders

"Does social sell?" : doing business in the digital world. Reaping social media rewards / Lyndsie Bourgon ; 7 questions key to social networking success / John Soat ; Deleted, de-friended : social media great for B2B until you misuse it / Brian Shappell ; The tweet life of CMOs / Barbara Lippert ; Can you measure the ROI of your social media marketing? / Donna L. Hoffman and Marek Fodor ; Does social sell? / Brian Morrissey

Tweeting for a cause : social media meets politics and activism. Social media paves Obama's way to White House / Michael Learmonth ; Can the mama grizzlies pull off a Twitter revolution? / Noreen Malone ; Facebook politicians are not your friends / Frank Rich ; In social media election, the GOP capitalizes / Jake Coyle ; What you need to know about social networking / Pam Greenberg and Meagan Dorsch ; Road kill social media / Mark Hrywna

Tweeting is fundamental : social media in the schools. Social networking goes to school / Michelle R. Davis ; Social media in the classroom - for kindergartners (!) through high schoolers / Renee Ramig ; Schools get on Web 2.0 bandwagon / Denise Smith Amos

Bullied, spied on, fired, never hired : the dangers of social media. Why we'll never escape Facebook / James Cowan ; Social media / Eileen Morgan Johnson ; Addicted to Facebook / Scott Kerbs ; Cyberbullies ramp up the taunting - anonymously / Roger Neumann

The social-networking phenomenon : what it says about us, how it affects our lives. With friends like these / Jeremy McCarter ; A cyber-house divided / The Economist ; Do you own Facebook? / Vanessa Grigoriadis ; Curb your urge to overshare / Fernanda Moore ; We are not alone / Garvan Grant ; The web means the end of forgetting / Jeffrey Rosen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-212) and index.

ISBN:

9780824211103

0824211103

OCLC:

691928279