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Searching for free stuff online can be costly

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Categories: Getting Started , Video/Multimedia

Searching for free stuff online can be costly

This pie chart shows the different threats that can come from visiting Web sites that advertise unauthorized content.

This pie chart shows the different threats that can come from visiting Web sites that advertise unauthorized content. (Credit: McAfee)

It's common knowledge that you can catch computer viruses on porn Web sites. But did you know it's also risky to surf the Web searching for free movies or music?

A study from McAfee to be released on Tuesday finds that adding the word "free" when looking for entertainment content in search engines greatly increases the chances of landing on a site hosting malware.

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Time To Lower Our Expectations For Twitter?

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Categories: Getting Started , Higher Education , Social Media No Comments »

Time To Lower Our Expectations For Twitter?

There was a time when Twitter looked like it could become as mainstream as Facebook,Yahoo and Google are now and America Online was back in the 1990s.

Gawker Social Media Referrals

It's time to lower our expectations.

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Twitter Tips for Academics

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Categories: Collaborative , Getting Started , Higher Education , K-12 , Social Media , Tools, Programs, and Applications

100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics

By Jill Gordon

Twitter’s popularity has soared recently, and for good reason. What started as a simple way to update friends about daily life has grown into a powerful tool for business, communication, and education. While many campuses are just picking up on the educational rewards possible with Twitter, there is still plenty of room to create new and exciting ways to use Twitter on campus. The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more.

Check out all the tips HERE.