Facebook Introduces a New Center for Crisis Response
Facebook announced that their crisis response tools, including Safety Check, Community Help, and Fundraisers, will be accessible in a new...
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9 Reasons Why Text Messaging is the Key to Efficient Communication in Social Services Agencies
Anyone who works in the social services industry has noticed a growing trend. The number of clients who request that...
What Propaganda Looks Like in the Digital Age
Criticism of Facebook began last week after a news report revealed that the social network enabled advertisers to seek out...
How New Digital Technologies Make It Possible to Privatize Censorship and Manipulate Citizen-Users
Photo Credit: @NewYorkDailyNews For most Americans, protecting free expression means countering threats from government. Private corporations are not usually seen...
Social For Social: 5 Professional Ways For Social Workers to Effectively Use Social Media
Whenever you hear the context of social work in social media, it primarily generates unlikely images of disciplinary hearings and...
Young Victims of Cyberbullying Twice as Likely to Attempt Suicide and Self-Harm
Children and young people under-25 who become victims of cyberbullying are more than twice as likely to enact self-harm and attempt...
Are Your Tweets Feeling Well?
In the future, public health workers could monitor trends on social media to quickly identify a rise of influenza, depression...
How Social Media Can Impact Your Self Esteem
Since social media began with the launch of MySpace (and even the blogosphere and forums before it), people’s real world...
Building Genuine Connections in a Technology-Driven World: How to Stay Truly Connected
It’s early morning and your alarm has just sounded its daily wake-up chime. Without thinking about it, you reach straight...
Innovation in Social Work: Where Does it Come From?
As social workers, we often confront complex situations. And we are all about developing solutions and strategies for change. In...
Understanding Geek Culture and Nostalgia
Geek Culture London Comic Con 2017 was a place of wonder, hype, and secret previews. Not least, a place for...
Technology and Children: A Parent’s Survival Guide
Technology has changed the way children develop and interact with others, and while it seems to change every day, many...
Innovation, Strategic Networks, and Social Media: Why I’m Here
I suspect that most of my academic colleagues think I’m crazy. They don’t understand social networking, especially not Twitter. And...
Why 2017 Is the Year to Join Instagram
Did you know that by the end of 2017 around 70.7% of all brands are expected to have a profile...
Why Facebook Is So Hard to Resist
Why is social media such a hard habit to break? Because it makes us feel good, said Michigan State University’s Allison...
10 Useful Apps for Your Tech-Savvy Aged Parent
Are your parents aging but still wanting to keep in touch, be in the know, and continue to be avid...
How to Make Professional Presentations
Presentation software has advanced to the point where you no longer need to be an experienced designer to put together...
How to Find a Job Using Social Media?
Finding a new job, or changing your existing job for career advancement comes with significant challenges. As the pool of...
How is Technology Transforming the Healthcare Industry
Since the turn of the millennium, the technology industry has sky-rocketed and there are many types of technology which have...
How Our Educational System Run With The Power Of Technology
In the future, there will be some promising new technologies discovered maybe it will include the time machine, flying cars...
