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Twitter, launched in 2006, has become the web's hottest property. With celebrity endorsement from the likes of Oprah, Lindsay Lohan and Stephen Fry, it now has 75 million very active users. But haven't we seen this all before? The here today, gone tomorrow fickleness of the web's every shifting demographic has embraced, chewed up and spat out a legion of other services, from ICQ to MySpace. Once favoured toys, they're now forgotten and dusty, languishing at the back of the cupboard.
11 Essential Resources You May Have Missed
We know you’re busy. Even with every social media, web, and RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week’s most insightful content. Never fear. We’ve taken a moment to round up the best Mashable resources from this past week and present them here for your weekend enjoyment.
Las mejores 10 herramientas de redes sociales para empresarios (
Por Hernan Nadal Ya seas un emprendedor comercial o un emprendedor social tratando de aprovechar la potencialidad de la web2.0 para tu proyecto, estas 10 herramientas recomendadas por Mashable pueden convertirse en parte fundamental de tu estrategia online. Monitter , es un servicio que vigila Twitter (Twitter) y nos muestra en una interfase parecida a TweetDeck las busquedas que introduzcamos previamente. Se pueden agregar o quitar columnas para seguir en tiempo real las conversaciones sobre nuestra marca en Twitter. 2.
The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influe
A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence. To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the Twitter accounts of over 54 million active users, out of some 80 million accounts crawled by their servers. They then went on to measure various statistics about these accounts, including audience size, retweet influence and mention influence.It has been a few months since we singled out Latin America to show how the region is growing. Since late last year, growth has slowed down in many of the region’s countries, despite their relatively low market penetrations — the opposite of what’s happening in the rest of the world. The lone standout is Mexico, which sent almost a million new monthly active users to Facebook in February. As you can see below, Mexico is also the only country among the region’s fastest growers to post a growth rate above 10 percent. What’s going on south of the border? Brazil, for instance, Latin America’s largest country by population, should be jetting ahead of the pack.
Mexico Led Latin American Facebook Growth in February, but Regio
Josh Sternberg: The Three Laws of Social Media
Social media. Two average-sized words that carry a tremendous amount of meaning. However, we have yet to create a working operational definition for social media.
Study: 52 Percent Of Bloggers Consider Themselves Journalists
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More According to a new study released by PR Week and PR Newswire, 52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists. This is an increase from 2009’s study, when just one in three had the same opinion.Este 16 de marzo, en el marco de los "Debates Abiertos de Fundación Telefónica", se ha desarrollado la conferencia " Resintonizando la educación " a cargo de Alejandro Piscitelli . A este etnógrafo de la educación virtual le han acompañado Javier Nadal, Dolors Reig y José Luis Castillo . Además de sus trabajos, entre libros y artículos , Alejandro se encarga de desentrañar aquello que hacen y dicen hacer los estudiantes en las redes sociales, específicamente en Facebook, del que publicará un libro… que ya esperamos. En esta conferencia, sustancialmente, hace una reflexión educativa desde las necesidades, hábitos y perspectivas de los nativos digitales. El video de su intervención está disponible en la web y quiero aquí resumir algunos puntos destacables de la presentación e invitarles a analizar su contenido. La “dieta digital” de los nativos digitales son las imágenes que ven, los videojuegos en que participan, las redes que frecuentan, los post que publican…
La invasión de los "bárbaros digitales"
How useful is strategic planning for e-learning? « Tony Bates
I’ve just completed the first draft of a chapter for a book on integrating technology in post-secondary educational institutions that I am writing with Albert Sangra, of the Open University of Catalonia. The book is based on 11 case studies, five in North America and six in Europe. One of the things we looked at is the use of strategic planning and its value for e-learning.
The Real Results series is supported by Gist , an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here . PR professionals use social media every single day to get the word out about clients, to communicate with customers and to respond to questions or problems. Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and other social sites have quickly become important tools in a PR professional’s overall toolkit. As one PR professional, Jeremy Pepper , told us,
How PR Pros Are Using Social Media for Real Results
Con motivo de mi inminente viaje a El Salvador para impartir el Seminario de Comunicación Corporativa 2.0 , me entrevista Carmen Molina Tamacas, editora de elsalvador.com , sobre los nuevos escenarios de la comunicación pública . La interactividad y la retroalimentación -posibilitadas por la web 2.0- son pilares fundamentales de los procesos periodísticos contemporáneos. ¿Por qué las redes sociales juegan un rol fundamental en cómo el mundo comparte ahora la información?
Los medios que se resisten al cambio suelen hacerlo por ignoranc
Hate groups have always been a presence on the Internet, but their presence is growing quicker lately thanks to social networking sites. According to a report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), groups that promote violence, terrorism, homophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of intolerance grew by 20 percent in the last year alone. The report is part of the Center's annual look at the spread of hate groups online, which noted that there are now more than 11,500 social networks, websites, forums, and blogs that focus on spreading intolerance, recruiting new members, and instructing people on how to hurt others. "The numbers are probably, at the end of the day, multiples of that," the SWC's associate dean Abraham Cooper said in a news conference Monday.