Search for your site URL and the results displayed will un-shorten all shortened links in tweets that link to your site. It does not matter what URL shortening service someone uses when tweeting about your site, BackTweets will resolve all shortened URL’s to display the ones pointing to your site.
Until recently no one had taken it upon themselves to do concentrated, outsider examination of the News Feed - Top News versus Most Recent (both are filtered) - to see what's going on. Tom Weber staged a one-month experiment to unpack the algorithm, and came out with 10 of Facebook's secrets - and if you're crafty, a way to game the News Feed to ensure that you come up more often than others.
The recently released ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology gives some excellent insights into trends in college students' technology ownership, perceptions, skills, and habits.
Schoology is a startup that seeks to address many of the pain points of the LMS: Schoology is easy to use. It's free. It offers data portability. It encourages communication and collaboration with look and feel of contemporary social networking sites rather than the bulletin boards of circa 1996. But it isn't simply a social networking tool. Schoology provides the functionality of its big name competitors - Blackboard, Moodle.
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C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, and G. Stumme. Proc. Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Boston, MA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2012)
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