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A growing number of graduate school admissions and college officers are turning to Facebook for recruiting, communicating with potential students and providing up-to-date news on the school through the social networking site, instead of relying on more traditional recruiting methods like mass mailings or emails, according to an ...

Wilkes University, a small, private school in northeastern Pennsylvania, is using a quirky new in-your-face $120,000 ad campaign to get the attention of today’s media- and marketing-savvy students.The university is plastering personalized messages on billboards, pizza boxes, gas pumps, and even on MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to students it wants ...

Libraries aren’t what they used to be.   No more stuffy, hair-bun-bearing librarians, no more thumbing through cumbersome card catalogs, and no more getting lost in aisles of endless Encyclopedia Britannicas.   Libraries are now high-tech, high-speed information portals that offer a wealth of resources: free, online and easy to ...

A decade ago, blogging was a way for anyone with a computer to get a high from posting their personal ramblings to the Web and sharing their now-published thoughts with the online world.   Narcissistic? Maybe. Therapeutic? Definitely. Profitable? Questionable.   But not anymore.   Thanks to our obsession with the Internet ...

First, there was Cindy Sheehan, the suburban mother turned political activist after her son died in Iraq.   Then there was the CNN and YouTube joint foray into the presidential debates, with CNN televising all eight Democratic candidates debating questions submitted by the public through YouTube videos.   And now get ready for the ...

  Forget that Rupert Murdoch’s multimedia acquisitions involve ownership of social media properties like MySpace and may be an attempt to transition old school newspaper content into relevant content for a new generation. Instead, focus on the millions and millions of MySpace users, including more than 230,000 new registered users a day that ...

There now is little doubt about social networking becoming an integral part of our culture. It almost is a foregone conclusion. I know you and your friends for years have been into MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and many other such networks. But mom and dad—“the parent generation”—are just starting to get a ...

Could it be that social networks are becoming an embedded piece of our culture, no longer just limited to college geeks, party mongers, and those who are hip and in the know? That would appear to be the case.   Just last month the CIA, that is, the Central Intelligence Agency, got friendly with FaceBook. It has been using the popular social ...