How Does Technology Affect Kids’ Friendships? Peter DaSilva for The New York Times FACE TO FACEBOOK John Shumaker, 17, on Facebook at his home in Lafayette, Calif. Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times Andy Wilson, 11, left, and his brother Evan, 14, go on Facebook in their treehouse in Atlanta. “Thanks!” Said the boy. “Just kidding,” said the girl with another smile. They both laughed. “See you tomorrow,” said the boy. “O.K., see you,” said the girl. It was a pretty typical pre-teen exchange, one familiar through the generations. Children used to actually talk to their friends. Last week, the found that half of American teenagers — defined in the study as ages 12 through 17 — send 50 or more a day and that one third send more than 100 a day. To date, much of the concern over all this use of technology has been focused on the implications for kids’ intellectual development. It is far too soon to know the answer. “These are things that we talk about all the time,” said Lori Evans, a psychologist at the Child Study Center.
Edu. The Fate of the Semantic Web | Pew Research Center's Internet & Overview Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has worked along with many others in the internet community for more than a decade to achieve his next big dream: the semantic web. His vision is a web that allows software agents to carry out sophisticated tasks for users, making meaningful connections between bits of information so that “computers can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, combining, and acting upon information on the web.” Some 895 experts responded to the invitation of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center to predict the likely progress toward achieving the goals of the semantic web by the year 2020.
Asked to think about the likelihood that Berners-Lee and his allies will realize their vision, often called Web 3.0, these technology experts and stakeholders were divided and often contentious. Some 47% agreed with the statement: Also in this report: » Survey method. There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter -- really - USA. Why Banning Social Media Often Backfires. Humans have a natural proclivity to want what they cannot have. Our insatiable appetite for sharing information, combined with the nearly limitless ways to access the web have thus far frustrated the most sophisticated attempts to block access to social media services. From the Great Firewall of China to the public schools of Britain, IT security experts are finding that restricting Internet access can have the unintended consequences of civic backlash, poor worker productivity, and students unprepared for cyber threats.
Here are a few examples that illustrate the ban and backfire. In Schools My own university bans the Internet in some large lecture halls. Meanwhile, some schools in Britain have chosen to "lock down" their systems, allowing access to only verified websites. Additionally, children were less likely to understand proper Internet safety when outside of school.
In the Workplace I once worked the night shift at a business that attempted to ban Internet access. By Government.
(Social) Media Literacy. The Social Media Bubble - Umair Haque. I’d like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships. During the subprime bubble, banks and brokers sold one another bad debt — debt that couldn’t be made good on. Today, “social” media is trading in low-quality connections — linkages that are unlikely to yield meaningful, lasting relationships.
Call it relationship inflation. Nominally, you have a lot more relationships — but in reality, few, if any, are actually valuable. Thin relationships are the illusion of real relationships. Here’s what lends support to my hypothesis. Trust. Disempowerment. Hate. Exclusion. Value. What are the wages of relationship inflation? Let’s summarize. The social isn’t about beauty contests and popularity contests. Now, this is just a hypothesis. From Social Media to Social Strategy - Umair Haque - Harvard Bus.
R.I.P. Social Media, it was a nice dream while it lasted. Let’s set the record straight right from the beginning. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Buzz or any of the other hundreds of wannabes out there fishing for VC dollars as their only viable business model are not social media. At best they are just another play on the whole social network idea and at the worst they are nothing more than marketing coal mines.
All those so-called social media gurus or experts out there who do nothing more than get companies all jacked about the idea that followers and friends are the new marketing crack are no better than snake-oil salesmen. The only problem is that in the process of lining their pockets they have polluted and torn apart something that could have been a turning point in our society. For the longest time now I have been a firm believer that Social Media at its heart was the platform by which we as individuals could come together and through conversation, effect change like never before. In his post Joel writes Tom writes.
Always On: One Third of Employees Feel the Need to Stay Connecte. For a lot of us, the Internet has made it possible to work from anywhere and connect to work at any time. Without a doubt, this 24/7 connectivity is both a blessing and a curse. According to a new survey by web conferencing firm InterCall, 30% of workers in the U.S. who use technology to do their jobs feel the need to stay connected to work 24/7, even during weekends, breaks and holidays. One in two workers also say that taking time off is becoming increasingly challenging. Clearly, the current economic climate isn't helping employees to relax. Almost 40% of all respondents noted that they are doing the job of two people because of the impact of the economic recession on their company. Given all of these pressures, it would seem natural for most of these workers to feel at least some resentment towards technology in the workplace, but 72% of respondents argued that technology helps them to do their job better and 81% say that technology makes them more productive.
What about you? SAP Global Survey: Pistachio's Laura Fitton - Global Neighbourho. Twittering her way from Mom-at-home to Global Presence [Laura Fitton, Pistachio Consulting. Photo by David Sifry] Laura Fitton, founder & CEO of Pistachio Consulting seems to be ubiquitous in social media these days. She's sits on best-attended panels at prestigious conferences and is surrounded by the most people when the talk ends. You see her name in traditional press being interviewed or in bylined content about social media. You see her in social media venues being asked her thoughts in just about everything.
Laura has been a communications professional for over 15 years now. From this simple peer-to-peer, mobile web platform, Laura is among the most recognized names and sought after consultants in social media. I met Laura for the first time back in December, but as I write this four months later, I realize that she has very quickly become and old friend. 1. Why would they? Before I showed up in social media last spring I was under a rock called maternity. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. A New Age for Social Media Marketing. InShare7 In 2010, Social Media will rapidly escalate from novelty or perceived necessity to an integrated and strategic business communications, service, and information community and ecosystem.
Our experiences and education will foster growth and propel us through each stage of the Social Media Marketing evolution. As MarketingSherpa observes, “2010 is the year where social media marketers gain the experience required to advance from novice to competent practitioner capable of achieving social marketing objectives and proving ROI.” It’s a powerful prediction and it’s one that I also believe. This is your year to excel, teach, and create your own destiny. To document the evolution in maturation of new media marketing, MarketingSherpa published its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report. This is why I believe that business success stories shared to date were wonderful to read, but they didn’t necessarily serve as a framework for my work. I believe to the contrary however. 7 steps to a social media marketing plan (SMMP)
Social Network Suicide. Edu Copyright. Secure Online Backup and Archiving for Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Comparing LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter and ecademy. 10 out of 10 in 2010. The 9 Stages to Social Media Acceptance | Erika Napoletano is Re. Top Five Social Media Marketing Mistakes. Social media initiatives have become standard components of companies' marketing and communications strategies. Large or small—from the local bakery to General Motors (GM)—businesses see the value of engaging in online conversations already taking place about their brands. While social media best practices have emerged, brands still struggle with how best to engage with their consumers. Here are five common mistakes: 1. Not (or Barely) Monitoring: Companies that do not first "listen" and observe how their evangelists and detractors talk about their brand risk jumping into a cyclone of unanticipated activity.
Even a well-liked Internet brand can fall victim to lack of social media monitoring. 2. Recently, Nestlé's (NESN) Facebook page erupted in a flame war when Greenpeace staged a protest of the chocolate maker's alleged use of palm oil from deforested areas in Indonesia. 3. 4. 5. At the end of the day, brands must earn their "social currency. " An Overhaul to LinkedIn Groups. If you're new here or just an old friend, I'd love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. Thanks for taking time out of your day to come hang out here! 0inShareinShare One of the most engaging features of LinkedIn, Groups, has been been refreshed and is starting to roll out to their users, now at 70 million worldwide.
LinkedIn Groups has been a part of the core feature set within the professional social network but, in my opinion, was one of the most under-utilized features. People tend to belong to a lot of Groups that interest them but don’t necessarily engage with them on a constant basis. One of the reasons is that it took multiple clicks to start a discussion within a group. With this update LinkedIn is trying to put the focus onto creating conversations by making engagement easier and a key focus of the Groups. Here is a video demoing the new features to help explain it all… This update makes me even more excited about LinkedIn. Top 6 Social Media Mistakes And How to Fix Them | Social Media E. While there are many success stories of people using social media for personal and business reasons, there are also plenty of people who may feel their efforts are not paying off.
Whether you use social media to market your business, increase sales, promote your blog, or raise awareness for a non-profit organization, here are six reasons social media might not be working for you—along with ways to overcome these problems. Mistake #1: You Have the Wrong Connections Imagine that you are asked to do a seminar about the future of Microsoft Office (with the opportunity to sell some Microsoft training courses). You’re provided two options. You can have a large auditorium full of over 10,000 people or a smaller one with only about 500 people. But what if you learned that the large auditorium is full of users who are mostly students and artists, and the smaller one is full of business owners who depend on Microsoft Office.
This happens a lot in social media. Social Links on Your Website inShare23.