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DENVER, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --FORTIS Online has advanced its online learning experience to reflect a social networking look and feel.

To achieve enhanced user-friendly networking capabilities, FORTIS Online has upgraded its Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) to Service Pack 11. The system delivers a completely new user experience that consolidates critical information from students' courses and organizations as well as their academic network.

"Our students love social networking through sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. With the worlds of social networking and online learning intersecting more and more, this upgrade will greatly enhance the learning capacity of our students," said Alec Winters, Vice President of Online Operations for FORTIS Online.

Improvements from a student's perspective include:

FORTIS Online also utilizes Blackboard mobile technology so students can work from mobile devices.

About FORTIS OnlineFORTIS Institute Online, a division of Fortis College, Centerville, Ohio, is licensed by the Florida Department of Education's Commission for Independent Education and by the State. FORTIS College has institutional accreditation from the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges, 2101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 302, Arlington, VA 22201, (703) 247-4212 http://www.accsc.org. FORTIS Institute Online is licensed by the State of Colorado Department of Higher Education Division of Private Occupational Schools. It is not regulated in Texas under Chapter 132 of the Texas Education Code. FORTIS Online delivers career-focused educations suited for working adults looking to achieve their professional goals. FORTIS offers courses designed to give students a variety of options, including access to classes and instructors on their schedule both day and evening so they can fit higher education into their busy lifestyles. Your Life. Powered by Learning.

At FORTIS Online, students can choose from such popular programs as Business Management, Medical Billing and Coding, Medical Administrative Assistant, Hospitality Management, Internet Marketing, Digital Graphic Design, Criminal Justice/Homeland Security, and more. FORTIS Online is a proud member of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC) Consortium, an association of colleges and universities dedicated to helping members of the United States Armed Forces and their families earn college degrees. For consumer disclosure information or to learn more about FORTIS Online, visit http://www.fortis.edu.

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The word tweet, in relation to social media, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), breaking the rule which says a new word must be current for a decade before inclusion.

The addition is marked as a 'quiet announcement' on the dictionary's June 2013 update.

Chief editor and lexicographer John Simposon, 59, said: "The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED."

Other new word entries include flash mob, live blog, mani-pedi, geekery and jolly hickey sticks.

Commenting on the word tweet, Simpson said: "This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a new word needs to be current for 10 years before consideration for inclusion. But it seems to be catching on."

The word has been used only since 2007, the dictionary says, one year after the launch of Twitter.

To tweet, says the entry, is to "make a posting on the social networking service Twitter. Also: to use Twitter regularly or habitually."

The Oxford English Dictionary was first used in 1895.

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Are you fed up with social networking and bored of people checking in every hour of the day with Foursquare at some location you really couldn't care less about? If so you're in luck because there's now a new anti-social network called Hell is Other People.

Most social networks are designed to help you connect with your friends (or online admirers) but Hell is Other People promises to keep you as far away from your pesky online friends (and genuine ones) as possible. To keep you off-grid, the app takes your friends' check-in data from your Foursquare account and then works out optimally-distanced locations to make sure you don't bump into any of them on your way around town.

Designed by developer Scott Garner, who describes it as partially satire, partially a commentary on my disdain for 'social media', it highlights various safe zones on a specially adapted Google Maps screen and gives you critical information on your friends' check-in so you, you know, don't have to actually see them.

Unsurprisingly Garner tells The Independent he has a love/hate relationship with social media that's mostly hate.

Up until recently, this problem was mostly theoretical, but now I'm finding that my aversion to social media is actually affecting my life-not being on Facebook, for example, now means that nobody invites you to anything and nobody remembers your birthday.

Paradoxically though Hell is Other People depends entirely on you and your friends using Foursquare and your mates checking in regularly enough throughout the day, but with more than 30 million people worldwide using the app there's obviously some potential there.

Garner is a masters student at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and describes himself on his website as basically unemployable in a conventional sense but does seem to realise the biggest floor in his app is its users. In an online video tutorial for the site, he takes an afternoon stroll around New York - the only city it is currently available for - and says: Most frustrating of all is that nobody is checking in today. I hate doing things that depend on other people because they are so unpredictable and unreliable.

Perhaps that's why it's described as more of an art project than a functional app. Would Garner every try and make money from it? As far as going commercial, it never occurs to me to try and make money from my work until it's already in the papers and I think, 'Man. I should have thought of a way to sell this.' Also, I'm much more focused on making beautiful (or at least interesting) things than useful things and maintaining websites is the absolute pits. Users are the worst kind of people.

There's one awkward real-world conversation that Garner hasn't accounted for though. What happens when your best mate asks why he hasn't seen you in your local for months?

* Meanwhile in London... a new billboard campaign has kicked off in Shoreditch with the tagline: You have no friends and no one likes you. Its promoting Rando, a random photo-sharing app which has ditched all social-media norms so theres no sign-in process, no comments, no likes and, most importantly, no friends or followers to worry about. Is this the start of an anti-social networking backlash? Perhaps not. Ironically the billboard campaign has got lots of people talking on Twitter. Sigh.

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The social networking term 'tweet' will be included in Australia's printed Macquarie Dictionary later this year.

The Oxford English Dictionary has now included the social networking term tweet', two years after it recognised popular texting terms OMG (oh my god) and LOL (laugh out loud).

In a further sign technology is changing the way we speak, tweet' will also debut in Australia's printed Macquarie Dictionary later this year.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) chief editor John Simpson confirmed tweet' had been formally recognised in his hallowed tome's June update - more than seven years after Twitter was invented.

'This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a new word needs to be current for 10 years before consideration for inclusion. But it seems to be catching on.'

The OED defined tweet' as simply: 'To make a posting on the social networking service Twitter. Also: to use Twitter regularly or habitually'.

Tweet' will appear in the next print edition of the Macquarie Dictionary in October, Editor Susan Butler told AAP.

Macquarie editors recognised the word in 2009 and included it in online editions from 2010.

Earlier this year, the Macquarie Dictionary included phantom vibration syndrome' in its online edition - describing anxiety and an obsessive conviction that one's mobile phone has vibrated in response to an incoming call.

Other words or phrases which made it into the new OED included: wingsuit' (a full-body garment having wings), sega' (a dance form of the Mascarene Islands) and metabolic syndrome' (a cluster of biochemical and physiological abnormalities).

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