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Breakthrough Book: Digital, Data, and Social Networking Leaders

Social, Agile and Transformation

I rebranded this blog as Social, Agile, and Transformation over ten years ago, an instinctive change based on three fundamental changes I was sensing in the nature of business. .

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Are social media companies to blame for youth mental health crisis? It’s complicated

GeekWire

Social media apps. Lawsuits filed by two Washington state school districts allege that major social media companies including Meta, TikTok, YouTube and others are driving a youth mental health crisis. They’re also calling on the companies to stop the actions that are allegedly fueling the crisis.

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Topical Review Book Company Partners with KITABOO to Deliver Interactive Practice Tests

Kitaboo

To help students perform better and attain new heights academically, practice test books are a perfect learning aid. Williams founded the Topical Review Book Company. Topical Review provides practice test books for subjects starting at the 3rd grade level through high school. The Extensive Catalog of Test Books.

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How Social Learning Features Can Revolutionize Online Education

Kitaboo

The term “social learning” was first coined by Albert Bandura, a Canadian–American psychologist and professor of psychology at Stanford University. ” His social learning theory focuses on four elements, which could be applied in the context of learning within organizations and institutions. What are Social Learning Features?

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New chapter for physical retail: Barnes & Noble is growing — including in former Amazon Books spots

GeekWire

The former Amazon Books location in Seattle’s University Village. And in an especially ironic twist, two new Barnes & Noble stores in the Boston area opened in former Amazon Books locations. And in an especially ironic twist, two new Barnes & Noble stores in the Boston area opened in former Amazon Books locations.

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Book excerpt: Ex-Google manager’s ‘cautionary tale’ details alleged pregnancy discrimination

GeekWire

This is an excerpt from her upcoming book Black Box: A Pregnancy Discrimination Memoir. You don’t want to file a lawsuit against a company like Google. At the same time, I was getting a tremendous amount of pushback from Google, the company that I had loved and trusted for years. Did I make the right decision?

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Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight

Vox

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. YouTube took down one video flagged by Recode that suggested the vaccine could be the “mark of the Beast” and connected it to the end times in the Book of Revelation.

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