Study: Social-media junkies use e-mail more | Webware. Although social networking may be seen as a personal-communications alternative to e-mail, those that find themselves on several social-media sites throughout the day generally spend more time reading and writing e-mail messages than those that don't engage in as much social networking, according to a study released on Monday by Nielsen.
After considering the impact social networks have on Web surfers' activities online, Nielsen tested its assumption that "consumption of social media decreases e-mail use" to determine how social networking has impacted e-mail. To do so, the research firm broke its test population into four groups based on the amount of time they spend consuming social media. The first three groups were labeled low, medium, and high consumers of social media, respectively.
The fourth group featured people who didn't use social sites. After analyzing the data, Nielsen found that its hypothesis didn't quite hold up. 40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools Smashing Magazine. Advertisement What would you do if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, with only a USB drive, a dial-up internet connection, and a barebones computer with no software outside the operating system installed? Of course, you’d use the internet connection to call for help first, but what about after that? How would you keep your design business going? Okay, maybe a scenario that’s a bit more likely would work better. What if your computer crashed, wiping out all of your data and programs, and you have a deadline in two days? Or maybe you want to be able to pick up and leave at a moment’s notice without taking anything more than a change of clothes and a USB drive. If you have the apps below, neither of those scenarios would be much of a problem.
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After pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our blog that clearly is known for addressing a specific subject matter, we get an email from a public relations agency that takes us for someone completely different. A few months ago, Brian talked about an off-topic pitch about a social network for plants. There are thousands of public relations professionals. Guess what? Jonathan Fields blogged about his PR outreach nightmare.
You’ve probably gotten emails like this to and decided to toss them in the trash. Jonathan’s saga continues when the PR representative followed up with a stern email, chastising him for not considering the book. It is the second time I wrote to you Jonathan. Great. The PR representative wasn’t done. I read this post with my mouth open. Is the PR pitch dying? Sparxoo The Value of Reciprocity in Social Influence. By Ethan Lyon, Senior Writer In the digital age, reciprocity has never been more essential and evident than in the development of communities. Whether it’s digging a friend’s story, introducing a colleague on LinkedIn or adding a link to a fellow blogger on your blogroll, reciprocity is an integral part of online community development.
In our Digital Influence in News and Politics Report, we found those with the greatest social influence heavily relied upon reciprocity. The 2009 Digital Influence in News and Politics Report illustrates benefits of reciprocity and its impact on social influence in the blogosphere. The Digital Influence in News and Politics Report shows of the handful of blogs on the top 25 influencer list, half of the most backlinked sites are blogs.
As media transition to more digital formats, reciprocity will continue to increase in value. Read the full Digital Influence Report (PDF) Photo by Joe Zlomek from Stock.Xchng. How Comes After What | The Relationship Economy...... Social technology offers individuals an array of places to establish ones presence in the market of conversations. These places, whether a blog, a social network or an established community, are “what” more and more people are learning about and joining. Once people and organizations hear “what” it is and “what” it offers they first jump into “whatever” network they are most aware of i.e. Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter. Next follows a natural question of “what is this and what do I do with it?” What Is Always The First Question In the numerous presentations I have given to audiences all over the consistent first questions is “what”.
What networks should I join? The answers to these what questions represent a desire to learn “what” to do. What Is Important but How Is More. People spend a lifetime learning what. How Requires New Knowledge The “what” questions are usually followed by “how” questions which commonly include: How do we reach specific audiences? What say you? 5 Social Media Lessons I Learned from Working with a Hollywood A. The Bamboo Project Blog: It's Not the Tool That's Bori. Great post from Sarah Horrigan on a training she did with University staff on using virtual learning environments (VLE's). Apparently there were complaints prior to the session about VLEs being "boring," that Sarah decided to face head on, pointing out that it's not the VLE that's boring.
It's what instructors do with it. I asked, 'How many of you put your lecture PowerPoints in the VLE? '. Lots of hands. That's the thing about technology and learning. I understand why learners get sucked into thinking that the tools don't work, especially when they've been the victim of Death by Powerpoint or forced to endure an endless webinar. That's not to say that we shouldn't ever complain about technology tools--some of them are clunky and not well-suited to the things that we want to do with them. As adults we look at an empty cardboard box and see it as a storage device. A sad bag indeed. Flickr photo via joshme17.
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He fractured an elbow and broke his neck in the fall and lay unconscious in temperatures as low as 7C (44F). Jack Russells Mickey, left, and Boz, right, saved Michael Dyer's life by cuddling up to him for 16 hours through the night as he lay injured with a broken neck ''Since Michael lost his wife the dogs are his whole life. But amazingly, Mr Dyer survived after his two dedicated dogs snuggled up to him for 16 hours and helped stave off hypothermia. They stayed with him all through the night as he slipped in and out of consciousness and thereby kept his core temperature high to ensure his survival. 'He was virtually conscious the whole time, about 16 hours.
Social Business mobile edition. The Social Capitalist’s Manifesto. A spectre is haunting the world — the sepctre of instability. No longer will you work for a single company for your whole life. No longer will a single company be able to ensure ongoing job protection. No longer will traditional media companies control the means of mass distribution. The power has shifted to the people and in a turbulent environment where everything is constantly changing, there is one single asset which will protect those already in power and those that wish to be catapulted into a state of significant influence: social capital.
Up until 5 years ago, there was a group of capitalists who owned the means of social production and were the employers of wage labor (see the communist manifesto). The influence that this group has held both in politics and in the markets is monumental. Ok. For the longest time I have focused on building traffic but not on building a tribe. For the past few months I’ve been toying with the concept of “social capitalists”. Washington Post Social Media Policy Faces Criticism. The Washington Post has sent a memo to its editors/journalists outlining the publication’s social media policies. They don’t leave too many options for what is actually allowed to take place on social networks. This is an issue that never really seems to go away, and is brought up every time a publication’s social media policies are discovered.
The topic has come up with both Dow Jones and Gannett to name a couple, just within the past year. The policies come out, and the blogosphere criticizes them. PaidContent has the entire document of the Washington Post’s guidelines. Some highlights include: - When using these networks, nothing we do must call into question the impartiality of our news judgment.
. - All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens. Washington Post Social Media Policy Faces Criticism. Discovery Brings New Type Of Fast Computers Closer To Reality. Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called “excitons” that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality. Their discovery, detailed this week in the advance online issue of the journal Nature Photonics, follows the team’s demonstration last summer of an integrated circuit—an assembly of transistors that is the building block for all electronic devices—capable of working at 1.5 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero. That temperature, equivalent to minus 457 degrees Fahrenheit, is not only less than the average temperature of deep space, but achievable only in special research laboratories.
Excitons are pairs of negatively charged electrons and positively charged “holes” that can be created by light in a semiconductor such as gallium arsenide. 5 Reasons Why You Should Store Your Docs In The Cloud | LucaFili. How many times do you find yourself sending tons of documents as email attachments? Sometimes those are docs that don’t need to be modified anymore, other times you are dealing with multiple people modifying the same document. Result? A real pain… In the past weeks I started using Google Docs more and more and I can confirm that the overall experience in terms of collaboration capabilities is much better than sending/receiving attachments continuously. 1) No More Attachments Storing your docs in the cloud with a service like Google Docs lets you easily share them without the need of sending them as attachment.
No more big files sent to your contacts, less pain. 2) Easier Collaboration No more document merging, no more crowded revisions in the same doc, but you can simply work on the same document, at the same time, seamlessly. 3) Revision History Every change you make in a doc is tracked and you can always get back to the previous version. 4) Quick Search 5) Virtual Folders.
100 Ways To Develop Your Mind | Change your thoughts. A Review of the Importance of Social Media Management - The Jord. The Conversation Prism: The Landscape for International Social N. InShare0 As Web 2.0 and Social Media became globally pervasive, the landscape proved expansive, overwhelming, and bewildering. It required a social cartographer in order to visualize its grandeur. Thus, in August 2008, the original Conversation Prism was born with the help of Jesse Thomas of JESS3. The Conversation Prism continues to rapidly evolve as social networks emerge, merge, and vanish. One thing that we cannot overlook is that the true language of engagement is indeed international. The latest localized Conversation to debut was published in Germany. Germany France Introductory Post Japan Introductory Post One Introductory Post Two China Introductory Post Read more about the Conversation Prism, Conversation Index, and also purchase the poster, here.
Skype to Take Over the World?|Tony Chung's Geekwhat.com. Or more accurately, voice over IP to take over the world? Have you ever used Skype on a mobile device? As I wrote earlier this month, I bought an iPhone 3G in Hong Kong and have been totally digging the experience. One of the applications I use daily on my iPhone is Skype. It is a free application and works wonders in my life. I have been using Skype for several years but only recently did I begin making calls via Skype on a mobile phone. Skype to Skype (free of charge and phenomenal clarity). I believe that as wireless internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous all over the world, voice over IP will slowly replace traditional phone networks.
Sidenote: I think Skype is going public early next year… stock investment anybody? Yfrog Lets You Post Media to Twitter Via an iPhone MMS Text. The More Affluent and More Urban are More Likely to use Social N. If you're in the U.S. and are using a social network like Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn, chances are you're more affluent and more urban than the average American according to Nielsen Claritas, which provides in-depth segmentation analysis of consumer behavior. "Nielsen's online data shows that about half of the U.S. population visited a social networking website in the last year and that number grows every quarter," said Wils Corrigan, AVP, Research & Development, Nielsen Claritas. "The rising popularity of these sites and the deep engagement consumers have with them has advertisers and marketers asking for more and more detail as to which lifestyles should be targeted for their online advertising and promotions.
" Facebook vs Myspace Through Claritas, Nielsen defines U.S. households in terms of 66 demographically and behaviorally distinct segments like "Young Digerati" or "Beltway Boomers. " Facebook users have a largely upscale profile. Bloggers more urban as well About the methodology. 10 Tools to Deal with Difficult Conversations. 10 badass social media visualisations | Blog. New Study Reveals that Social Media Investment Continues to Incr. Twitter to Become Tech’s Newest $1 Billion Company - B. A Computing Future from Microsoft: Large and Cheap Displays - O& Social Business mobile edition. No description available. The Wisdom of the Crowds? | Brian Solis: Social Media Expert - P.
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