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A recent Pew Internet study on how people are addressing politics in their social media interactions revealed some interesting points.

First of all, the study revealed that 74% of Internet users identify themselves as liberal. 70% identified as moderate. And, 60% identified as conservative.

The research concentrated on those persons who identified themselves politically. Some of those people said that they had received material from their friends on social networking sites that was political in nature. Among those people, the following discoveries were made:

10% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because that person posted too frequently about political subjects

9% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they posted something about politics or issues that they disagreed with or found offensive

8% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they argued about political issues on the site with the user or someone the user knows

5% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they posted something about politics that the user worried would offend other friends

4% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they disagreed with something the user posted about politics

82% of SNS users have not taken any steps to ignore or disconnect from someone whose views are different or have not encountered any views that would prompt such a move.

67% of those who blocked, unfriended, or hid someone on a social networking site did it to a distant friend or acquaintance

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DENVER, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Hundreds of enterprise social computing champions from over 20 different industries and representing organizations of every size converged in Denver last week, reporting that social computing is yielding some dramatic benefits.

The second annual conference brought together NewsGator customers, partners and executives for networking, education and sharing of best practices. It featured case studies from Accenture, American Family Insurance, General Mills, Merck, Nalco, Oakley, and OppenheimerFunds.

Presenters covered a wide range of enterprise social computing topics, including the state of enterprise social computing, user engagement strategies, success stories, product integration, and measurement of enterprise social computing adoption. Microsoft speakers Jared Spataro, senior director of product management for SharePoint, and Jason Haggar, senior director, marketing for ISV partners in the US M&O DPE, were also on hand to answer questions about Microsoft's approach to social as well as updates and advancements regarding Office, Office 365, SharePoint and Lync.

"Working day to day within your own company to drive social computing doesn't always present the chance to step outside of your comfort zone to explore new ideas for increasing user adoption," said Steve Brantner, manager, learning & communications at consumer packaged goods company General Mills. "As strange as it may sound, driving social business can actually be a little isolating in the corporate world because it's still early in the adoption cycle. That's why events like the Collective are so valuable because, in addition to seeing best practices live and getting unique ideas that I can bring back and implement, I also make so many great connections with people who are dealing with similar challenges."

The conference kicked off with an in-depth "Boot Camp Workshop for the Social Enterprise" facilitated by Dr. Mike Prevou, president and co-founder, and Mike Hower, chief learning officer, with Strategic Knowledge Solutions (SKS). SKS specializes in expertise development, organizational learning, and knowledge management practices that have evolved in elite companies and military organizations providing organizations with increased competitive advantage.

Attendees later experienced hands-on lab and demonstration stations, one-on-one consulting with NewsGator and its partners, and glimpses into NewsGator's product roadmap. A distinguished panel of customers, vendors and partners also explored one of the more timely topics at the conference: governance, risk and compliance, and how customers can securely and confidently implement social computing while mitigating risk and staying in compliance with existing and new regulations. An inspiring keynote from Jim Blackie of consulting company LRN kicked off the last day of the conference. Through some thought-provoking dialogue and compelling research data, Jim provided the Collective audience with frameworks for governance, culture and leadership driven by the company's HOW approach to principled performance.

Awards were given out to several highly active users of NewsGator's customer and partner extranet "eNGage" for being Street Team participants those customers who go beyond the call of duty to evangelize and promote the benefits of enterprise social computing. eNGage participants as a whole met a challenge from earlier in the year to reach 100-percent profile completion by the start of the 2012 Collective. To reward the achievement, NewsGator announced it would make a significant charitable donation on their behalf. eNGage participants chose The Nature Conservancy as the recipient. NewsGator's Partner of the Year award went to PointBridge (now Perficient).

"This year's Collective demonstrated what we're seeing globally, across industries; that social computing is now a strategic competitive imperative for organizations. Rolling the 'social fabric' out to the entire enterprise is now a must-have, not a nice-to-have," said JB Holston, president & CEO of NewsGator. "A lot of the organizations at the Collective are well along their social computing journeys, so their insights, examples and best practices help fellow attendees learn from one another. We have seen the exchange of valuable, practical knowledge attendees can immediately use in their own organizations."

NewsGator extends a special thank you to the Collective sponsors who made this year's event possible: Aspect; Avanade; AvePoint; Cardinal Solutions; Cognizant; Colligo; HiSoftware; Kontiki; Microsoft, Orbital RPM; Pariveda Solutions; PointBridge (now Perficient); Portal Solutions; Rightpoint; STATERA; Strategic Knowledge Solutions (SKS); StoredIQ; and Vizit, Inc.

About NewsGatorAs a Microsoft Gold Certified and Depth Managed Partner, NewsGator is helping over three million paid users in industries across the globe propel the future of productivity. NewsGator Social Sites delivers robust social technology to the enterprise with proven scalability and security to flagship clients like Accenture, Adidas, Deloitte, Ericsson, General Mills, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kraft Foods, Merck & Co., Unisys Corporation, and the US Army. No other social software vendor can rival our deep integration with the entire Microsoft stack reducing your total cost of ownership while increasing adoption, collaboration, and innovation. And for all that, Microsoft honored us as its 2011 US Partner of the Year. We're making SharePoint and Office365 social. Follow us on Twitter @newsgator and at http://www.newsgator.com.

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Even if you weren't tuned into the tech festival SWSX, you may have been thinking it would be easier to ignoresocial networking sitesand hope theyll go away. They wont. The age of social media and openly sharing information to find others with shared interests beyond geography is here to stay. While navigating tween and teen years in real life can be precarious, its equally important these days to learn the process of finding and defining oneself in the online realm as well.

The best social media sites for kids and tweens (ages 7 to 13) adhere to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which regulates how much personal information sites can ask from kids under 13 years old, among other things. Likegood kids' online gaming sites, most of these sites require a parental account, or for parents to prove they are who they say they are via a one-time credit card verification (typically requiring a $1 fee). It's a good step toward keeping your kids safe online.

With the popular Togetherville site shutting its doors after being acquired by Disney last year, many kids and parents are looking for a similarly safe-yet-fun place to hangout online and practice savvy social media skills. Here are some social networking sites for kids and tweens that give them some freedom to explore the social media realm while giving parents the control to monitor and guide their process:

giantHello Previously called FaceChipz, giantHello is a social gaming network for tweens that comes very close to mimicking the social networking look-and-feel of Facebook with similar profile pages and layouts.

ChipzCo, Inc.

Once you friend another tween, you can leave comments, send private messages, join groups, update your status, upload photos and more. Users even have a news feed and can follow tween celebrity Twitter feeds.

Kids need to share invites with their friends in real life via email or by printing out an invitation code to friend them on the site, so everything is connected through the real world.

To establish an account, parents must verify their identity via the usual credit card charge, or via the last four digits of their Social Security number. The gaming experience is similar to what you find on Facebook.

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Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology. Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University... Learn More

Programers should spend their time crushing code, not on setting up domains and configuring editors. San Francisco startup Koding has raised a$2 million Series A from RTPVentures and Greycroft to eradicate friction for programmers with its browser-based cloud development platform and developer community.

As of today Koding lets you program remotely in a wide variety oflanguages, quickly configure WordPress, Joomla, and web servers, and meet other developers who can be instantly authorized to work on your environment. Developers can even ditch localhost and get a free hosted server to work on.

Koding was founded in mid-2011 when co-founder & CEO Devrim Yasar discovered how tedious it was to get a development project started. When he launched the first iteration of Koding that handled basic tasks like domain and FTP setup, 10,000 developers jumped on board in the first two weeks. Now over 40,000 have signed up.

Today Kodingreleases a big expansion, allowing for full software development from the browser in ruby, python, C++, php, perl, & node.js. Developers can code from a functional Terminal in their browsers that connect to a free hosted server. Its got proper security, and doesnt discriminate between languages or hosts. Programmers can bro out and collaborate through the development community, and authorizing each other to work on products is as easy as friending someone on Facebook.

While competitors like Cloud9 IDE address development individual issues, the Koding team tells me their company aims to look holistically at all the biggest problems developers face and knock them off. With the time and new office its paying for with this new funding, Koding will be able to continue smoothing out pain points and become even more integral. Yasar tells me Koding wants to become the next GitHub. Youll share code on GitHub and work on it over here on Koding.

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"PHPs prominence as the web development language continues to be incredibly strong, thanks in large part to a worldwide community of developers who contribute to popular PHP-driven projects such as Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and Zend Framework. Corporate backing is similarly strong, with global businesses such as Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft ranking among the high-profile contributors which help to further solidify PHPs status as the worlds most popular open source web development language.

"Yet, despite its popularity, PHP has never really caught on as a multi-purpose language in the same way as contemporaries such as Perl and Python despite a powerful array of libraries capable of manipulating files, interacting with the operating system, and performing network tasks. Nevertheless, Ive come to rely upon PHP for a wide variety of shell scripting tasks, including most recently for building carb, an open source code generator for the awesome Fat-Free Framework. You too can put your PHP knowledge to work on the command line."

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