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	<title>Inigral Insights &#187; social networking in higher education</title>
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		<title>Using Social Networking to Increase Student Retention</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Croke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook in Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Engagement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[facebook for retention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected Research on Social Networking from Emily Dalton Smith (Director of Student Engagement at ASU Online), and Michael Staton (CEO and Co-Founder of Inigral, Inc.). This was derived from a poster presentation that ASU and Inigral presented at Educause 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Hook&#8221; of Social Networks and Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Staton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifecycle Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networks in Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking in higher education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People that post things on the internet for others to see are subject to the extraordinarily powerful force of positive, negative, or no feedback at all for an indefinite and infinite amount of time.  This is the first time in human history that this is so, and frankly, our neurons are not wired to handle this kind of uncertainty.  In fact, humans are highly motivated to seek out certainty and security in regards to social acceptance, inclusion, and praise.   ]]></description>
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		<title>Location Based Gaming in Higher Ed: Harvard and Foursquare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Zanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerging Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gowalla]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we recently covered, the location-based gaming for Higher Ed battle is just beginning. Gowalla has started &#8220;featured trips&#8221; at a few universities, including University of Texas at Austin. But after announcing a partnership with Intel for the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and winning the annual crunchies award for best Mobile Application, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accepted Student Social Networks: 9 Questions to Ask</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Staton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Technologies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook for Enrollment Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An up and coming trend in Admissions is to adopt an Accepted Student Social Network.  If you're looking at one now, here's some things to consider:]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Are Facebook Pages and Groups Merging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Klingensmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook for Enrollment Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook for retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook in higher education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook Pages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social media in the classroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking in higher education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to AllFacebook.com, it appears that Facebook is possibly merging Pages and Groups. Some groups saw the changes on Tuesday, October 13th, but their Group layouts reverted back to the old design within 24 hours.  Is Facebook merging the two?  Do you think they should?]]></description>
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