Social media kitbag. Paper.li Platform Enhancement. Dear Paper.li Publishers and Readers, A platform upgrade will begin on Friday, May 18. The Paper.li service will be in read-only mode for a period of 24 hours and during this time there will be no new paper creations or manual editing. After that time, we'll be back to business as usual. Paper.li has grown to become a real publishing powerhouse: 80 million articles published everyday in our user's papers. Back in March we implemented the first phase of a two-phase platform upgrade in order to keep up with our growing publisher's needs and scale for the future. We transitioned to a new distributed storage engine called Cassandra and a new distributed message broker called Kafka.We significantly changed the way data is gathered, stored and organised to be able to move to the next level of service to deliver even better content to your editions.
New features New Paper Creation. Internet 'may be changing brains' 19 October 2011Last updated at 07:44 By Helen Briggs Health editor, BBC News website More than 100 university students were studied Social network sites may be changing people's brains as well as their social life, research suggests. Brain scans show a direct link between the number of Facebook friends a person has and the size of certain parts of their brain. 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. Grey matter Researchers counted the number of Facebook friends each volunteer had, as well as assessing the size of their network of real friends. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote "The exciting question now is whether these structures change over time.
How Social Media Is Changing SEO. 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.
This is potentially great news for new businesses trying to achieve visibility in search. It’s less great news for sites that rely heavily on link buying (illegal, but hard to catch), producing huge volumes of borderline-useless content (long-tail, content farm approach), or just really old domains (previously an SEO trump card). Both Bing and Google admitted in interviews that their search results are positively affected by social signals, such as tweets, Facebook Likes, and +1s. SEE ALSO: How User-Generated Content Is Changing SEO Search Engines Adapt to Survive. Www.jeffbullas.com/2011/09/02/20-stunning-social-media-statistics/ Portals and KM: The New Twitter Guide for Newsrooms. How Companies Use Facebook To Hire And Fire Employees (INFOGRAPHIC) 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. Of those surveyed, 35 percent of employers were reported to have found content that cause them not to hire a candidate for an open position. More than ever, already-hired employees are paying careful attention to what is on their Facebook.
View mindflash.com infographic here: The Adoption Lifecycle of Social Networks [Infographic] - TNW Social Media. 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. In the innovators area you’ll Friendfeed, which unfortunately stopped innovating after its acquisition by Facebook; Foursquare, the most famous location based social network with 10 million users; and Google+ with its explosive adoption rate (20 million users in 3 weeks).In the early adoption stage we find professional social networks like Viadeo and LinkedIn, or generalist ones like Orkut (owned by Google), VKontakte (leader in Russian territories), Bebo.
Badoo is the only service specifically designed for dating purposes. Google+ Could Have More Users Than Twitter & LinkedIn in a Year [STUDY] Why Google+ is very much here to stay - TNW Google. 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.
The issue of having to use your real name on Google+ may be a deal breaker for some, and for all the good intentions and reasoning behind the decision, it does mean that the service loses out in some ways. For one, hilarious parody accounts like the ones we’ve seen on Twitter (e.g. Users are interacting Conclusion. How #bloggers can apply the Kipling formula to social media #law | journlaw. By MARK PEARSON Rudyard Kipling explained the secret to good writing in his poem The Elephant’s Child: “I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.” 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. Who? There are several ‘who’ elements to the online writing enterprise – and each can have an impact on your legal liability for what you write. 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.
Most bloggers cherish their independence, but this comes at a price. A crucial ‘who’ element is your audience. If others add to your words with more inflammatory material of their own, they carry responsibility for the new publication. What? When? Where? The Dow Jones v. Why? How? The ‘How?’ © Mark Pearson 2011. Handing comments over to Facebook is a double-edged sword. When Facebook launched the ability to embed Facebook comments on third-party websites, a lot of publishers saw it as a life-saver: not only would it improve traffic by exposing their content to others on the social network, but Facebook’s “real names” policy would also cut down on trolling and bad behavior. And some newspaper and media sites have seen a big traffic boost from implementing Facebook comments — including several that were profiled in a recent post at the Poynter Institute, such as the Los Angeles Times, which has credited Facebook with improving its web results. But it’s worth remembering that Facebook is not the cure for bad comments, and that handing over comments means relinquishing control over something important.
In his Poynter post, Jeff Sonderman notes that the L.A. Times has noticed both a decline in name-calling and other bad behavior from online commenters, and an increase in traffic as a result of implementing Facebook comments on its blogs. UK must not undermine news media. August 17, 2011 The Rt. Hon. David Cameron Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Great Britain Dear Prime Minister Cameron: 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. In light of such defiance of the U.K.' We believe additional laws are unnecessary. Sincerely, Nothing 'mindless' about rioters. 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. And it is reckless to start making confident claims about events that are spread across the country and that have many different elements. In Britain over the past few days there have been clashes between the police and young people.
We can dispense with some mistakes, though. More broadly, any breakdown of civil order is inescapably political. The fierce conflict remains ahead The profusion of images that modern technology generates makes it even more difficult to impose a single meaning on a complex event. There are signs too that technology is allowing individuals to intervene in the process by which meaning is assigned to social events. 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. This claim was discussed well among Ugandan tweeps who mostly wondered if the minister really knows how twitter works. Top tweets in Uganda are not even from politicians but rather individual youths looking for forum to discuss issues affecting their country and their lives. Like this: Like Loading... Your trending tweets showcased in a personalised site. Sites/default/files/engagement-guide_8.pdf. Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study] Social fundraising is hot! 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. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right? Knowing that nonprofit supporters around the world have been adopting the use of social networking in their daily lives we set out to figure out if the use of social networks had any impact on personal or peer-to-peer fundraising. We found that participants who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube communicate with their networks more regularly and send more messages. So, how does the use of social networks have such a significant impact on fundraising? Supporter Usage In Question Twitter as a Multiplier A Holistic Approach. Social media - traditional media’s resuscitator. Social media - traditional media’s resuscitator Details Published on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 00:00 Written by David Brewer A shot in the arm for mainstream media These are exciting times for those of us with a story to tell because the publishing power balance has shifted forever.
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. And the change is making some mainstream media strong, but others are struggling to keep up. They had a 'publish at' or 'broadcast at' attitude. But then technology advanced and the tools were developed to enable anyone to research, create and disseminate content. Social media means the 'publish at' and 'broadcast at' models are dead Social media – the game changer Then came social media. The noise was reduced and meaningful communication and instant participation enabled. The growth of ‘middle media’ Why NGOs should learn to use Social Media and collaboration tools. Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011. Thanks to Jesse Thomas of interactive design agency JESS3, we now have an updated look at the structure of the geosocial universe as it exists in anno domini 2011.
It wasn’t so long ago that the International Astronomical Union booted Pluto out of the solar system or that MySpace was overtaking Yahoo! And Google as the most-visited site in the U.S. Well, a few rotations around the sun later, and the overall shape of the geosocial universe has changed dramatically. New stars have been born and others have been scattered out across the cold recesses of Internet space. Today, Myspace is sputtering, Skype is part of the Microsoft solar system, and LinkedIn is being traded publicly. The whacky flux continues. As you’ll see, Thomas’ infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers.
Some other notable trends in the geosocial universe, courtesy of JESS3: How journalists are using Twitter. Has social media legitimised rumour? Featured training modules. UK riots: nine ways to use Twitter responsibly | Technology. Drowning in social media tools. Is social sharing of ad-stripped content hurting the media? 5 New Twitter Tools Worth Exploring. Productivity Twitter Tools - oneforty. How to: Evaluate and Compare Social Media Tools | oneforty. Social Networking’s New Global Footprint. 4 Ways to use UMapper to create online maps. The State and Future of the Social Media Management System Space. Social media kitbag. HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘ Big media, not popular bloggers, dominate the conversation on Twitter. The History of Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] Social Networks – Tool for Research - YIHR Training.
Untitled. KLM’s Passenger Social Surprise Experiment A world of tweets. Five Organizing Principles for Social Media in 2011 - Advertising Age - DigitalNext. Eight ways you should be using Twitter hashtags. UK Social Network Ad Spending to Double by 2012. Facebook connections map the world. Finding Journalism's Social Media Sweet Spot - Advertising Age - MediaWorks. How Many Marketers Are Using Social Media? Consumers Believe in Positive Word-of-Mouth. Publishers Pile Into Flipboard For Ad Test - Advertising Age - Digital. News sites using Facebook Comments see higher quality discussion, more referrals. News and information sites more engaging for advertisers than social networks, says AOP. Younger and Younger, More Kids Are Online. 2011 Trends: Content Marketing Is Critical. Marketing: Garfield on Why We Will Live in Curation Nation - Advertising Age - Bob Garfield. 2011 Trends: Census Highlights Demographic Shifts.
How Ferrari, Courvoisier Are Creating Multisensory Branding - Global News. The Future Will Be Personalized. Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice: Tech News « Rusbridger speech on social media. Twitter matters for media. Twitter users send 50 million tweets per day. Overview. eMarketer: Social media ad spend to hit $1.7 billion in 2010. 92% Of U.S. Toddlers Have Digital Footprint -- InformationWeek. 14 Fantastic New Facebook Infographics in 2011.