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U-W Requests Faculty Pay Raises [AUDIO]

Doug Randall — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:31:06 +0000

The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees is asking for $5.3 Million in annual pay raises for faculty. Amy Richards has a report. A new study from Children's Mercy Hospitals and clinics finds that 83 percent of parents think social media makes a positive contribution to their children's development despite the risks. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

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Would You Get a Root Canal Before You'd Give Up Facebook?

Shauna Wright — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:21:21 +0000

People who love social media really love it — and a new poll shows just what they’d be willing to do before they’d consider giving it up.

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Do You Set Your Social Media to Private? – Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:31:08 +0000

These days, just about everybody is on some form of social media. However, that doesn’t mean they want to share their information with everybody.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 2,267 adults, 58 percent of social media users set their profile to private.

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How Are You Adapting to Facebook and Other Social Media? – Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:51:05 +0000

Now that people are getting more used to being on social networks like Facebook they seem to be getting more picky about whom they are sharing their information with.

According to a survey from the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of social media network users removed people from their friend rolls in 2011, which was up from the 56 percent of those who did so in 2009.

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