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More than 100 university students were studied It's not clear whether using social networks boosts grey matter or if those with certain brain structures are good at making friends, say researchers. The regions involved have roles in social interaction, memory and autism. The work, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences , looked at 3-D brain scans of 125 university students from London. We cannot escape the ubiquity of the internet and its impact on our lives, yet we understand little of its impact on the brain, which we know is plastic and can change over time” "We have found some interesting brain regions that seem to link to the number of friends we have - both 'real' and 'virtual'," said Dr Ryota Kanai, one of the researchers from University College London.
BBC News - Internet 'may be changing brains'
Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com , an “agile publishing” platform for brands-turned-publishers and freelance journalists. Old school SEO pros cover your ears, or be prepared to adapt your craft: Search engines are changing, and social media is a huge part of that change. Bing , Google , and an increasing swath of nimble little search engines like Blekko and DuckDuckGo are incorporating social data into their results.
How Social Media Is Changing SEO
In an increasingly digitized world, roughly 45 percent of employers now reportedly use social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to screen potential employees, according to Mindflash.com . Not all Facebook-related employment decisions are necessarily negative, as Mindflash.com depicts in the below infographic. Indeed, 18 percent of employers have found information that has actually facilitated their decision to hire a job applicant. Still, finding something unsettling is more common, as more employers used what they found on social networking sites to bar applicants from employment.
How Companies Use Facebook To Hire And Fire Employees (INFOGRAPHIC)
Vincenzo Cosenza , an Italian digital strategist, has just finished his latest research on Social Networks Adoption Lifecycle. Cosenza has applied the Innovation Adoption Model, a model that shows the stages in the adoption process for a new product by a consumer, to social networks diffusion to plot their actual state and, hopefully, understand their future trajectories. He made a very cool infographic and gave us the first look.
The Adoption Lifecycle of Social Networks [Infographic] - TNW Social Media
Google+ has signed up 13% of U.S. adults so far and could hit 22%, in a year, passing Twitter and LinkedIn as the number two social media network, according to a new study. The report , based on a Bloomberg and YouGov poll of 1,003 U.S. adults from July 29 to August 2, revealed that 71% percent of U.S. adults use Facebook, but that number will drop to 69% a year from now. Among people who use both services, 30% say they plan to cut the time they spend on Facebook. However, 31% of Google+ users say they’ve abandoned their Google+ accounts or never posted anything on them.
Google+ Could Have More Users Than Twitter & LinkedIn in a Year [STUDY]
The speculation of the month seems to be how long will Google+ last? Does the social network have what it takes to stick around for the long haul? Or is Google’s latest offering too little too late? It’s become virtually impossible to avoid articles wondering whether Google+ could easily end up like Buzz or Wave, or finding a diatribe as to why the hurtling growth numbers don’t mean anything, or how the site doesn’t really compare to Facebook or Twitter. But Google+ is very much here to stay. There’s no denying that there have been hiccups along the way, but any service is bound to have growing pains, and these are certainly not issues that have Google+ on its way out.
Why Google+ is very much here to stay - TNW Google
A century later, we still use those serving-men to teach news writing but they can also be used as a lens to consider cyberlaw and how it applies to the online writer. Each raises legal questions and highlights the risks you face. Identity and anonymity are important issues in the law of online authorship, and I devoted my last blog to the way courts have considered the latter.
How #bloggers can apply the Kipling formula to social media #law | journlaw
The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the steps to curb recent riots in the United Kingdom that are under consideration by your government. These measures would set alarming precedents that hinder press freedom and the free flow of information. During the August 10 House of Commons debate to address riots in the U.K., you stated that the British government would investigate new ways to stop and control communications on websites and social networks and, in response to a question, you declared that media organizations had a responsibility to hand over raw footage to the authorities. CPJ, an independent, nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending the rights of journalists worldwide, urges you reconsider this position. As repressive states around the world, including China and Iran, take solace in your expressed intent to restrict communications, it is vital that you continue to uphold high standards of freedom.
UK must not undermine news media - Committee to Protect Journalists
Nothing 'mindless' about rioters - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Civil disturbances never have a single, simple meaning. When the Bastille was being stormed the thieves of Paris doubtless took advantage of the mayhem to rob houses and waylay unlucky revolutionaries. Sometimes the thieves were revolutionaries. Sometimes the revolutionaries were thieves.
Twitter revolt in Uganda? « Rosebell's Blog
Today we woke up to the words of the Uganda Security Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa saying the opposition is using social media to pyschologically prepare youth for armed insurgency. It couldn’t have been better timing looking at what’s coming out of UK government after the riots. Such claims also came out as the opposition was launching new round of walk to work protests. The first day on Wednesday August 10, the police disperse peaceful opposition supporters in Masaka led by the FDC leader Kizza Besigye. Mukasa’s allegations of a twitter revolt is based on these renewed efforts by opposition to stage protests despite government crackdown.If you want an instant website made up of your trending tweets you might want to apply for a beta invitation for Twylah . I requested an account last night by logging in with my Twitter details, and this morning received an email telling me my site was now live . And I am impressed. It's simple and effective.
Your trending tweets showcased in a personalised site - Media Helping Media Blog
Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study] | NetWitsThinkTank.com
Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? 42.3% of the entire American population use Facebook. Twitter has over 16 million users. YouTube is the second most used search engine in the world.Social media - traditional media’s resuscitator
Published on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 In the past, the opportunity to be a publisher or a broadcaster was open to a select few. Now that's extended from the newsroom to the street, and traditional media is being forced to change.I am surprised by the little number of NGOs using Collaboration tools and Social Media to grow, considering the great impact on most business and future expectations, they are surely losing time and money. Our world is everyday smaller thanks to technologies and Web 2.0, but there are still many organizations who refuse to see the future as a communicative and collaborative process that teach us how important others are: sharing, co-working, collaborating and listening. Collaboration NGOs need to start using collaboration strategies and tools to communicate, work and organize their working efforts. Most NGOs have offices, collaborators, support, etc, in many different places and getting all teams do work at the same time, in the side direction, could be a real headache, unless you plan a collaboration tactic to communicate, to interact in real time, to use the same tools and work online. Check how to empower NGO through collaboration here