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HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter
Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog . Follow him on Twitter @DanSchawbel . Today, Twitter has roughly 6 million users and is projected to grow to 18.1 million users by 2010 .
Wiki:Participatory media lesson plans | Social Media CoLab
These are a series of small lesson plans (I call them "labs") I've used as assignments for my students. These pages serve as more permanent reminders of what I show them during the face to face class meeting, as assignments, and as resource pages for further learning. Please feel free to add your own.
for Newsrooms – Twitter Media
We want to make our tools easier to use so you can focus on your job: finding sources, verifying facts, publishing stories, promoting your work and yourself—and doing all of it faster and faster all the time. We know you come from different generations. Some are native to the pilcrow, others to the hashtag. You began your careers in different media: radio, print, broadcast, online and mobile. But you share a common bond: the desire to make a difference in the world, bringing reliable information to the communities you serve.
Last summer, Facebook announced that it had achieved 500 million users and counting. Now that figure is completely outdated. Though Facebook hasn't released an official statement yet, TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook retains approximately 750 million regular users who log in to the social-networking site at least once per month. That number, which is larger than the population levels of at least a few countries on the planet, isn't all that surprising. The rate at which 250 million more people joined is the staggering aspect.
Report: Facebook has 750 million members | Digital Media - CNET News
I gave up on Facebook the day it kicked me off for using a fake name. I can't remember now if it was 2006 or 2007, but I do remember a Facebook support staff member asking me via email to verify that I was actually named "Snuffles Caulfield." I couldn't, and after briefly considering some mock letterhead, I thought, Screw this stupid thing , and that was that. Five (or four) years later, I'm still saying, "Screw Facebook." The only difference is that I'm in the minority.
The New Dinosaur: Why I'm Not on Facebook, and Why You Shouldn't Be Either - Culture - GOOD
Research on Twitter and Microblogging
Adrien Guille, and Hakim Hacid. (2012). A Predictive Model for the Temporal Dynamics of Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks . International Workshop on Mining Social Network Dynamics at the 21st World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012) . Antenos-Conforti, Enza. (2009).
Media Life Magazine - The richer lives of social media users
There's a perception that people who spend a lot of time on social networks actually aren't very social at all, that they're caught up in a virtual world at the expense of relationships IRL (in real life). But it turns out that perception isn't really true. Heavy social network users are not any more isolated than the average person, and they are just as interested in real-life things as their Facebook-eschewing counterparts.
Research on Social Network Sites
Acquisti, Alessandro, and Gross, Ralph. (2006). Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook . In Golle, P. and Danezis, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies . (pp. 36--58).Cambridge, U.K.