A thing called socialization

Following the initial release of the first how-to eBook in Tractor Beam Marketing's 'Social Skills' series; the Kindle Edition of the first title called 'Social Skills: Facebook Basics for Business' is now available on Amazon.com. It is currently in the top 100 paid eBooks in the Marketing & Sales>Advertising category. Social Skills: Social Media Is Like High School

Content of any type is not useful unless you can find it, organize it and interact with it. In the enterprise companies have tried many different schemes to try and get business content collected in a central repository, organized, tagged, version controlled, and searchable. This has often taken the route of "content management" systems. Content management systems to varying degrees, do an adequate job of getting some content into a controlled system environment. There are challenges with content management systems on two fronts though, getting content into the system in the first place (getting employees to participate in inputting content in some way) and getting the right content into the hands of the person who actually needs it. Search helps find content and tagging can increase searchability of course, but the whole system is only as good as the ability to input and tag the content, which inherently requires broad participation. To me it seems that the pro...

Teenagers who receive better child care during early years fair slightly higher on measures of academic and cognitive achievement compared to their counterparts who don’t, a new research indicates. A long-running study funded by the National Institutes of Health shows that teens who had spent the most hours in child care in their first 41/2 years reported a slightly greater tendency toward impulsiveness and risk-taking at 15 than did peers who spent less time in child care. The study is the first to track children for a full decade after they left childcare. Early daycare leads to smarter teens | Health / Medicine

Socialization takes a downward turn at Facebook. A board member's account was hacked this past weekend, but whose information is really being compromised? DailyTech - Facebook Board Member Get's Reeled Into Phishing Scam

The 11-year-old from La Grange has known her since he was born and she has been his teacher all his life. Nathan is home schooled. His mother, Elizabeth Crewe, is part of a wider group of parents who home school and meet collectively as members of Westside House, a chapter of Illinois Home Oriented Unique Schooling Experience, or HOUSE, which bills itself as an inclusive, non-sectarian network of homeschooling support groups. All three of Elizabeth and Mark Crewe’s children have been home schooled, including Julia, 10, and Elliott, 6. Home school not like old school - Riverside, IL - Riverside Suburban Life

The New York Times Magazine has a long and interesting article today about the moral life of babies. The story’s main thesis, after establishing evidence for a rudimentary infant morality–such as babies preferring “good guy” puppets, I can’t do the evidence justice in a blog entry–is to refute suggestions–which are treated respectfully–that human morality is evidence for a divinity, as opposed to purposeless evolution. But that matter is of no consequence to us here at SHS. “The Moral Life of Babies:” Evidence of Human Exceptionalism » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

I think it is a denial fantasy that the relentless verbal abuse that used to pound through the hallways of the Exeter Area Junior High in 1987 and 1988 have magically disappeared in 2010 at Cooperative Middle School. It's the same school, same hierarchical institution, same oppressive school rules, just in a different building a few miles away. Structure of schools contributes to bullying | SeacoastOnline.com

Now, when we started out, other homeschooling families were already reporting that the great benefit of homeschooling over public education is that because children interact with adults more than they do with other children, they tend to mature much faster and their social interactions will be on more of an adult level. Hence, I am not surprised to see these same results in my own children. And I am not the first one saying this, I am just lending my voice to what homeschoolers already know. The truth is that you will become like the company you keep, and if your children spend most of their time with children they will act like children, but if they spend most of their time around adults, don’t be surprised when they behave like a young adult rather than a teenager. Faith : What about a child’s social development? - Frontiersman

COLUMBIA- Woodcrest Chapel hosted a Post-Secondary Education Fair today. Local home-schooled students at the fair visited with different colleges and universities from around the country. The annual event is designed to help students get information about further education. Representatives came from Westminster College and Columbia College, two of the more home-school friendly universities in the area. Although there are no specific scholarships available to home-schooled students, programs geared towards assisting these students are being built. KOMU.com - Education Fair Helps Home-Schooled Students - Coverage You Can Count On

Who is to blame in the Phoebe Prince bullying tragedy? Prince's death and the subsequent charges against six of her fellow students in South Hadley, Mass. has brought a community together to question exactly what is happening in their public schools just outside their door. The suspects themselves are now subject to being bullied. On Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously backed an anti-bullying bill. The bill would prohibit bullying at schools and clamp down on so-called cyberbullying by prohibiting the use of e-mails, text messages, Internet postings and other electronic means to create a hostile school environment. Character-education expert: Forget test scores, focus on attitude, effort & character

Homeschoolers have won a round in the long fight against the crackdown on family rights contained to the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child, but experts say they need to keep up their guard. The convention, which is not yet ratified in the United States but has been adopted by numerous other nations, orders that children can choose their own religion with parents only having the authority to advise them, the government can override a parent's decision regarding a child if a social worker disagrees, a child has a right to a government review of every parental decision and Christian schools would violate the law if they refused to teach children "alternative worldviews." Homeschoolers win round against United Nations

One of my favorite reactions happened at my school, Fox Valley Technical College. I was chatting with another student before my class and, somewhere in the conversation, I mentioned having been homeschooled. She looked at me in amazement, and exclaimed, "I would have never guessed you were homeschooled!" To my dismay, her comment was actually meant as a compliment. She seemed to think that if I had been homeschooled, I wouldn't be able to keep up a good conversation or be able to offer ideas and somewhat intelligent comments in the classroom discussions. Chanel Volpel column: Homeschoolers don't match stereotypes | postcrescent.com | Appleton Post-Crescent

My new memoir, Love in a Time of Homeschooling, was officially launched yesterday with a feature story in The Washington Post . This article explains a little about why I decided to homeschool my daughter, Julia, for the fifth grade (I'll explain more in future posts), and it describes some of our activities. I've already had readers send emails asking why Julia went back to public school for the sixth grade. Why didn't I continue the homeschooling for the rest of her education ? Homeschool Guilt: When A Child Returns to Public School | Psychology Today

England's top comprehensives are more socially exclusive than the country's remaining grammars because schools are letting middle-class parents play the system, according to a study published today. The exploitation of "wiggle room" in the rules on admissions means not enough poor children are getting into the best comprehensives, the report published by the Sutton Trust said. Top comprehensives 'more socially exclusive than grammar schools' | Education | The Guardian

Sure, a college degree can open a number of doors for those who hold them. But throughout history, some of the most renowned entertainers and entrepreneurs have found success despite sidestepping higher education. What do you think? To degree or not to degree? Most SUCCESSFUL People Who Never Went To College (PHOTOS)

Young children are a tough audience and a tough interview. I was reminded of the former while talking about my career to a dozen children, ages 4 to 8, at the MICAH home school co-op. I was reminded of the latter when I asked them how they like being in the co-op. Ashtyn Morgan, 7, said he likes everything about it but especially science. “I want to be a scientist when I grow up,” he said. MICAH, which stands for Mid-Illinois Cooperative Adventures in Homeschooling , offers field trips to its members and classes Thursday afternoons at Life Foursquare Church. With that comes opportunities for socialization that home schooled children often lack. herald-review.com | Blogs: Theresa Churchill

For 73-year-old Rosetta Handy, and the second-graders who dote on her, it's a 50/50 proposition, with winners all around. "They help me as much as I help them," said Handy of her volunteer work as a tutor at Belmont Elementary School in a low-income West Baltimore neighborhood. "They give you energy. You learn psychology all over again. It's Win-win For Elderly Tutors, Grade-school Kids - CBS News

The troubled internet company AOL Inc. plans to sell or close social network Bebo, almost two years after acquiring it in $ 850 million, which sought to expand into this area of communities in the network.In an email sent on Tuesday to employees, Jon Brod, the unit responsible for investment and acquisitions of new companies, AOL Ventures, said that Bebo would need a “significant investment” to continue competing. AOL envisages close or sell its site socialization Bebo | ABH News

Some experts in child development and others have observed that spontaneous play and “childhood culture,” including games that have been passed down from generation to generation, are disappearing. What do you think about this? Do You Socialize More Virtually Than in Reality? - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com

The year is 2040. generation X is nearing or in retirement, while gen Y has risen to the senior ranks of corporations across North America and perhaps gen Z will be following in their footsteps in a very different world of work, as yet another generation enters the workforce. Read more:   How will we work in 2040?