El poder de las redes sociales Para saber quiénes somos tenemos que comprender cómo estamos conectados.Ken Robinson Eduard Punset: Estamos en la Universidad de California, en San Diego, aunque en realidad está en el distrito de La Joya y, bueno, hemos venido todo el camino desde Barcelona para hablar de redes sociales con el profesor James Fowler, redes sociales que, como verán, nos va a demostrar, si no lo sabíamos, que no estamos solos ni muchísimo menos. James, creo que empecé a creer en las redes sociales cuando leí que más del 70% de los homicidios que se cometen en Estados Unidos son obra de personas que se conocían. James Fowler: Sí, bueno, en la televisión vemos justo lo contrario.Y me parece que, por eso, nos llevamos una impresión equivocada. Lo cierto es que nos emocionamos mucho más con aquellas personas con las que estamos conectados socialmente. Eduard Punset: Escucha, una pregunta: la gente se reparte en grupos diferentes en función del trabajo que dicho grupo debe realizar. James Fowler: Exactamente.
101 Social Media Stats to Make Your Spirits Bright and Your Head Spin Finding the right needle in the haystack that is the Internet is often times an exercise in futility and frustration. Sure, you can find “quick tips” for just about anything, a “how-to” guide for maximizing anything you’d like to maximize, and “case studies” that illustrate someone else’s success story which you believe – for a fleeting moment – you can just as easily apply to your own situation. Most often the tips are oversimplified, the how-to guides leave much to be desired, and the case studies seem to more like exceptions than they are rules. What you really need, at the beginning, middle, and end of the day, is the truth. Or something that is almost close enough to the truth: like social media statistics. I Wanna Know Where the Stats At As you probably know, 108% of statistics are exaggerations, so be careful what you glean from this. That said, here is my collection of social media statistics I’ve cobbled together over the past year. Social Media in the Daily Life of Web Users
Beyoncé: being photographed in your underwear doesn't help feminism | Hadley Freeman Next month marks the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's hugely influential study that helped to spark that pervasive second wave of feminism that – for all its faults and stuttering incompleteness – shaped the western world as most of us know it today. As a book it was – as Friedan was herself – a flawed advocate of women's rights: Friedan had little apparent interest in women who were anything other than white and upper middle-class. Her homophobia became an embarrassment to the women's movement. Her egotistical paranoia about being ousted as the face of the women's movement was captured with wince-inducing brilliance by Nora Ephron in her 1972 essay, Miami. The feminist movement never did and never will run smoothly. And so, 50 years on from Friedan, it pleases me to announce that we have a new face to the modern-day feminist movement. Last week the new issue of American GQ came out and it neatly encapsulated where western feminism is today.
3 | In China, New Sustainable Cities Are Rising From Nothing In 1902, a self-taught urban planner named Ebenezer Howard published his utopian vision for "Garden Cities"--self-contained circular towns radiating from a central city, connected only by train. Neither town nor country, they were a dense, compact fusion of the two: suburbia without sprawl. Although Garden Cities never really caught on in the West, the Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has resurrected the idea with Chinese characteristics: a “prototype city” twice as populous and 20 times as dense, with a tower taller than the Empire State Building at its core. Working with one of China’s largest real estate developers, the firm aims to build them by the score. The first is slated for a patch of farmland roughly 10 miles from the core of Chengdu, China’s westernmost mega-city. To achieve that level of density--which is comparable to the Chicago Loop--“the average height of the buildings would have to be 18 stories,” says Adrian Smith.
Redes - El futuro: la fusión del alma y la tecnología, Redes Presentado por: Eduard Punset Dirigido por: Eduard Punset El economista Eduard Punset presenta este espacio de divulgación científica. El contenido del programa abarca la medicina, la química, las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación y todas aquellas disciplinas que puedan englobarse bajo el paradigma de la ciencia. Según el propio Eduard Punset "REDES nació en Madrid, y durante la primera temporada contábamos en el plató con la presencia de famosos artistas o empresarios acompañados de científicos. Estoy contento de que REDES fuera un programa pionero en la comprensión pública de la ciencia, en la utilización del primer plató virtual de la televisión en España, en el recurso a la animación 3D y de las videoconferencias. REDES se trasladó en 1997 a Sant Cugat, desde donde todavía se coproduce entre TVE y el grupo de científicos y periodistas jóvenes que constituye la productora smartplanet. El blog de Eduard Punset:
From Facebook to Twitter: Save Your Community From Redundancy Caroline Chen | March 10, 2011 | 8 Comments inShare107 By understanding the nuances of each platform's digital culture, you can create unique and relevant content, speak the right language, and effectively grow both communities. Of all the social platforms, it's hard to avoid your favorite brand on Twitter or Facebook. I can't be alone in thinking there's not only a glut of information, but also brand redundancy that still exists across Twitter and Facebook. If Twitter remains your bite-sized Facebook RSS feed, you've only built a crutch for readership rather than a community. Consider these three areas of differentiation when managing your brand's presence in both environments: Customer interactions. Content. Capacity. Playing to each platform's cultural norms and technical strengths will not only help you stay relevant, but also help you stay sane.
Gender role Gender roles may be a means through which one may express their gender identity, but they may also be employed as a means of exerting social control, and individuals may experience negative social consequences for violating them.[2] Various groups have led efforts to change aspects of prevailing gender roles that they believe are oppressive or inaccurate, most notably the feminist movement. The term was first coined by John Money in 1955 during the course of his study of intersex individuals to describe the manners in which these individuals express their status as a male or female, in a situation where no clear biological assignment exists.[3] Background[edit] Some systems of classification, unlike the WHO, are non-binary or gender queer, listing multiple possible genders including transgender and intersex as distinct categories.[10][11] Gender roles are culturally specific, and while most cultures distinguish only two (boy and girl or man and woman), others recognize more. Dr. Islam Dr.
Susan Herbst: What Do Professors Do, Anyway? On March 23, the Washington Post ran an op-ed by David Levy, a former chancellor at the New School University, asking: "Do college professors work hard enough?" He suggests that faculty at non-research institutions don't put in enough hours for the pay they receive. Not surprisingly, this created a small firestorm among faculty nationwide who weren't shy about telling him what they thought. I have held faculty and administrative positions only at research institutions -- where the mission is both teaching and research -- so I wouldn't presume to speak for faculty at schools focused exclusively on teaching. Yet there are some across-the-board myths about academic life in general, and professors sometimes seem to be a target. This likely has to do with the fact that unless someone has been a professor or graduate student or worked with them, they probably don't fully understand what professors do. So perhaps the best question isn't, "Do college professors work hard enough?"
A Simpler Social Technographics Ladder I’ve been thinking about how we use social media. How can we characterize what we do? I have always used Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff’s Social Technographics ladder for thinking about the various levels of social media participation. I want to make it simpler for use in teaching others about social media. Perhaps there could be as few as 4 levels of involvement: Creation. Curation. Conversation. Observation. These categories represent a subjective continuum and most of what we do is some combination of each. What’s so striking to me about the Forrester ladder: It all starts with somebody’s creation. Perhaps a simple sequence could be: Listen, talk, collect, and create. This eliminates 3 levels from the original ladder and may be simpler to describe to a physician audience. Tagged as: conversation, creation, Curation, Forrester, observation, Social media, technographics
5 Huge Trends in Social Media Right Now What's the first thing young women do when they wake up? Check Facebook. How do enterprise employees pass the time at work? With social media. With so many studies highlighting ever-accelerating social media usage rates, the conclusion is obvious — social media is everywhere. What follows are five of the hottest social media trends right now. Entertainment checkin services are changing the way we watch television. 1. Smartphone owners have the world at their fingertips. What this means is that at any given moment, any smartphone owner can pull out their device, fire up a barcode scanning application, scan a code and complete activities or gain access to a wealth of immediately relevant information. The consumer's scanning behavior is so significant that location-sharing checkin services such as SCVNGR are giving away QR code decals to retailers free of charge. As scanning becomes a more socially acceptable practice, the barcode scan will only become more social in nature. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Boekverslag: De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek | Educatie en School: Samenvattingen Titel: De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek Auteur: Tessa de Loo Eerste druk: november 1983 Gelezen uitgave: twaalfde druk, maart 1985 Uitgeverij: De Arbeidspers, Amsterdam Aantal bladzijden: 194 bladzijden Boekbeschrijving Tessa de Loo, De meisjes van de suiketwerkfabriek; verhalen. 11e dr. De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, november .1984. Bespreking Muziekles (blz. 7-27) Johan en Lisa wonen in een eenvormige nieuwbouwwijk. Personages Johan is een man tussen de 30 en de 40 jaar oud. Tijd De vertelde tijd beslaat een paar weken, het verhaal wordt niet chronologisch verteld. Ruimte Het verhaal speelt zich af in een huis in een eenvoudige nieuwbouwwijk. Perspectief Er is een auctoriale verteller in dit verhaal; je leest de gedachten en gevoelens van alle drie de hoofdpersonen. Thema Het thema van dit verhaal is “het laten gaan van dromen en verlangens uit je jeugd”. Motieven De vrouwen klagen in de coupé wel hun nood bij elkaar, maar gelaten accepteren zij de wereld zoals die is. Motieven
Más de 30 buenas ideas en innovación social en 2012 “Cuando salimos de nuestro camino habitual podemos pensar que estamos perdidos pero es aquí donde lo nuevo y lo bueno comienzan” León Tolstói Nos faltó en la descripción de tendencias para 2012 de hace un par de días hablar, más allá de la política, de qué sectores serán los más innovadores, los más prometedores en cuanto a la puesta en marcha de soluciones en la capa social de internet que mejoren la realidad. En momentos de crisis como el actual, cuando como muchos repiten no hay vuelta atrás en muchos aspectos, bienvenidas sean las ideas para reinventarnos. Nadie mejor que los inversores en Silicon Valley para decidir qué sectores e iniciativas serán los/as protagonistas este 2012. Salud: Educación: Aunque como os comentaba dejo el análisis con extensión de las tendencias que vienen para la salida del informe Horizon 2012, me ha parecido interesante ver, desde un punto de vista de empresa, en qué proyectos confían los inversores. Empresa 2.0: Consumo colaborativo
Anne Loyd: Feminism is Dead, Long Live Femininity I don't want to be labelled a feminist because deep down I believe it's out dated, aggressive and all about "the fight" - the fight for equal rights, the fight for the vote, the fight for freedom. I acknowledge all the work done by our predecessors and for what they have achieved. I am of course, thankful. I am now one of many women who have their own business, can vote and freely express an opinion. Historically there was a lot to fight for, by why now in 2012 do women in the West still feel the need to fight for the things we want? You only need to look to countries like Africa or Afghanistan where women have to fight. I don't want to be labelled a feminist because I simply don't want to be labelled and I don't believe that the label of feminism is the best way for the next phase of the development of women in western society. Netmums recently released a survey of 1,300 women, which asked what feminism means to the modern woman.
Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history Technology TED Radio Hour asks: “Why do we collaborate?” This week’s TED Radio Hour examines “Why We Collaborate,” exploring why, and how, millions of people come together to work on online projects, sometimes for free. The episode begins with Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, who spoke at TEDGlobal 2005, back when the site was still very new. Entertainment Carl Kasell’s dramatic LOLCats reading on TED Radio Hour, visualized Carl Kasell of NPR hosts the show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me.