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Protect Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Understanding Security Threats

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The phishers scan social networking sites and find your page, your email address, and recent posts from you. Being a spear phishing target can be prevented by keeping your social media profiles private or limiting how much you share online. The app looks like a real banking app for customers of Mizrahi Bank in Israel.

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Google Beth, Kiss Beth: Tangible Benefits to Blogging (and Facebook(

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Occasionally, the "Beth" entry for wikipedia comes first or Beth Israel Hospital. She found the link via Paul Hyland' s Facebook profile. That's a demonstration of some of the value of using a social network - that you get to see what information colleagues are posting - and some of it may have some relevance to your work.

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Burning Problems With Social Networks: What do you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites? He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1) He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1)

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Is A Downer News Cycle A Factor in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Success?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Malaysian Airline tragedy in the Ukraine, the Ebola virus outbreak, the conflict on the borders of Israel/Palestine, Iraq/ISIS, Ferguson, and the sad passing of Robin Williams. These are all very serious and sad world events. Another reason is the social proofing element, where friends tag their friends on social network.

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MCON13 Live Blog: The Millennial Movement (Jose Antonio Vargas, Define American)

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Three summers ago I spent six weeks profiling Mark Zuckerberg for the New Yorker. This was before The Social Network movie came out. So I contacted Zuckerberg''s people and said, "I want to write a profile of this person." Interesting: Mark has had a reputation and been caricatured, but he''s actually pretty social.