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“Many employers are looking for candidates with an impressive online presence, also known as a social resume.” Online Colleges

Collecting, organizing and demonstrating your skills, abilities and accomplishments in a learning portfolio is essentially the same as building a Social Resume.

Social Resume
Courtesy of: Online Colleges

From social media to massive financial institutions, we live within a web of networks. Marc Samet investigates how these networks keep us connected and how they remain “alive.”

Power of Facebook

November 9, 2012 — Leave a comment

FBFriends

Original Source: The Ambassador Blog

MonetateSoLoMo
Original Source: Marketing Pilgrim: SoLoMo Infograph Shows Impact of Mobile and Social on Locale

I find it interesting that the general use of the Internet has evolved to the place where we have moved passsed the desktop and onto mobile devices which we carry with us everywhere and use all the time for almost everything we do.

All the while academics are still debating the merits of the use of the Internet in the form of online learning, digital texts and the like in higher education.

This makes we wonder who Alvin Toffler is really referring to in the following quote:
Alvin Toffer on 21st century learning