10 reasons NOT to block social networking at work. Jack Wallen says employees should have access to social networking sites at work.
Do you agree with his reasoning? Holiday rerun: Has your company softened its stance on access to social networking sites or does it still enforce restrictions? Here are some arguments worth revisiting. I get it... You're completely convinced that allowing your employees to get on Facebook and Twitter would pull the rug out from under your bottom line. 1: Morale Back in the '90s, people wanted to be hired by companies that were cool to work for. 2: Reputation Your reputation is everything in business. 3: Communication Communication -- whether it's internal or external -- is key to business success. 4: Advertising Dare I say "free advertising"? 5: Collaboration Social networking facilitates collaboration internally, but it also lets users collaborate with the entire world. 6: Social research You need your finger on the pulse of society. 7: Skill building.
Conectivitiz : a good way to explain the social... 19% of women in the U.S. now on Pinterest: report. While men in the U.K. may have a special place in their hearts for Pinterest, the third most popular social network in the United States is widely considered to be a hangout for women.
Brands seem to be on board with this notion. The US Army, for instance, turned to Pinterest when it wanted to reach a female audience online. Now, a Pew Internet & American Life Project report confirms Pinterest's reputation: according to a survey of more than 1,000 adults in the United States, nearly 20% of women using the internet are now on Pinterest compared to just 5% of men. All told, 12% of American internet users are on the image-based social network, which has surged in popularity in the past year.
For marketers looking to reach female consumers, Pinterest's demographics look pretty good. Facebook’s 955 Million Users [Infographic] Jul. 27, 2012 | by Gregory Lyons With Facebook recently announcing that they now have just shy of a billion (955 million) users we thought it would be interesting to take a look where those users live, who they are and how things have changed over the past year. Unsurprisingly the US has retained the crown as the country with the most Facebook users with over 155 million people using the site, up 3 million from a year ago. Google's Social Network Goes Pro. I+D Comunicación & Network Thinking.
IFTTT Launches Channel Dedicated to Google Drive. 4 September '12, 07:44pm Follow The sweet online service IFTTT has launched a new channel that allows you to perform actions using your Google Drive account.
The channel allows for recipes to be created that can do things like saving all of your Tweets or Instagram photos to your Drive account. The service, if you’re not familiar, is essentially a glue that sticks multiple web apps together in order to let you do interesting things. Things like saving an archive of Tweets to Dropbox and keeping up with the Olympics. The Google Drive channel is already filling up with recipes that allow you to save Craigslist searches, Instagram photos, Tweets, favorites, quick notes via SMS and more to your account. As online services proliferate and many of them spawn their own APIs, there is no guarantee of data portability and often no way to export data out.
LinkedIn Hits 10 Million Registered Members in the UK. How Technology has Transformed Expat Communication. It was with great anticipation that I’d look forward to my grandma’s packages in the post.
They came once a month, without fail, and always contained a piece of home that no money, luxury shopping mall or, in fact, anything on the island could ever give to me. It was then that, at the tender age of six, I began to appreciate what it means to communicate and how precious getting a message to a person is. My grandma’s cassettes were very much the first phase in that learning experience.
We’d spend just two years in Hong Kong, but the time left a lasting impression on me, and not only because I relied on my cassette player (and the books that would accompany them in the post) for a bedtime story from a very special person. Back in 2008 Fast forward 20 years and I returned to Asia, this time to Thailand, in an entirely new era of communication. The Facebookization of the Internet and early tech In today’s world, Facebook has become The Internet for so many.
Enter the smartphone revolution. The First Photo Ever Uploaded To The Internet.