The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers. Google Launches Tool for Online Reputation Management Google has introduced a tool that helps you manage search results for your name. The tool, "Me on the Web," is now included on the Google dashboard in between account information and analytics. It is not intended to be another privacy setting. "Your online identity is determined not only by what you post, but also by what others post about you — whether a mention in a blog post, a photo tag or a reply to a public status update," Google explains. SEE ALSO: 5 Ways to Clean Up Your Social Media Identity The new dashboard section encourages you to keep tabs on these mentions by setting up search alerts for data points included in your Google profile, like your name and email address. Google's new tool also includes links to resources about managing online identity and removing unwanted content. Businesses that help people do both of these things have popped up in recent years, and many of them automate the same tactics that Google suggests.
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever! Rory Fitzgerald: The Pope's UK Visit: "Aggressive Secularists" Are Making Britain an Intolerant, Bigoted Nation (Again) Virulent anti-Catholicism is alive and well in modern Britain. It is particularly interesting to watch this spectacle of hatred from the neighbouring island to the west -- one which has felt first-hand the depth of British hatred of Catholicism for many centuries. There was rabid anti-Catholicism in Cromwell's massacres of thousands of innocent Irish people in the 1600s. There was anti-Catholicism in the British authorities who subjected millions of Irish and Scots to dispossession, death, disease and oppression in their own countries throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. There was anti-Catholicism in the British troops who fired over the head of my grandmother when, as a 6-year-old, she hid from them in the hedgerows on her way to school. Brendan O'Neill of Spiked, says "the campaigning against [the pope's] visit has become so shrill that soon only dogs will be able to hear it. Some of the criticism of the Church is fair-minded and based in fact. Did he report this to the police?
Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment When NOT to Use Social Media - ReadWriteWeb These days, everyone is talking about social media and discussing what services and tools to use, how to use them, why you should use them, etc. In fact, if you listened to all the advice out there, you would probably think that no matter who you are, whether an individual wanting to build a personal brand, or a large multinational corporation intent on communicating with customers, you should be using social media. But is social media for everyone? Are there times when you shouldn't be using it at all? According to B&B, a magazine for marketing strategists, there are definitely some scerarios when social media should be avoided. In a recent article, they listed what these were: You're in a high-ticket business: The article recommends that businesses with only a few customers who each spend tens of millions of dollars with the company each year are better off not using social media. But Don't Be Afraid to Try! What will be different in 3, 6, 12 months as a result of our Twitter account?
Medical Smartphones [part of HCPLive]: Vree for Diabetes 2.0 Did you know that only about half of Americans with diabetes receive formal diabetes education? This makes diabetes self-management education essential in helping patients manage the condition. Here's a recent press release about a new diabetes app from Merck: Merck Launches New Mobile Application for People with Type 2 Diabetes, Now Available on the Apple Store® Vree™ for Diabetes 2.0 Helps Patients Manage Their Condition and Facilitates Communication with Healthcare Providers WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., September 13, 2010-- Merck today announced the launch of a mobile application designed to be used by people with type 2 diabetes, physicians and diabetes educators to better understand and manage the disease. Vree for Diabetes is a comprehensive set of easy-to-use tools developed to help people with type 2 diabetes track their blood sugar, medications, nutritional intake and activity level, with helpful features such as progress charts and live reminders.
From The Wilderness: Information on Peak Oil, Sustainablility, and the events surrounding 9/11 crowdsourcing How and Why Should Libraries Do It D-Lib Magazine March/April 2010 Volume 16, Number 3/4Table of Contents Crowdsourcing: How and Why Should Libraries Do It? Rose Holley National Library of Australia rholley@nla.gov.au doi:10.1045/march2010-holley Printer-friendly Version Abstract The definition and purpose of crowdsourcing and its relevance to libraries is discussed with particular reference to the Australian Newspapers service, FamilySearch, Wikipedia, Distributed Proofreaders, Galaxy Zoo and The Guardian MP's Expenses Scandal. Keywords: Crowdsourcing, social engagement, web 2.0, text correction, digital libraries, digital volunteers, virtual volunteering, wisdom of crowds, citizen science. 1. This article is an abridged version of my private research paper1. 2. Crowdsourcing is a new term in our vocabulary. "Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor and outsourcing it to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call. 3. 4. Fig. 1. 5.
Are Twitter Followers Better Than Facebook Fans? Marketers looking to push out the most effective messages to opt-in recipients must understand how audiences differ across channels and what causes them to connect with brands. Marketing venues that seem similar may differ strongly if their users have different needs and motivations. According to the final edition of ExactTarget’s “Subscribers, Fans and Followers” report, the differences between email, Facebook and Twitter also include their influence on customer loyalty. Daily Twitter users who followed a brand were more than twice as likely as daily Facebook users who “liked” a brand to say they were more likely to purchase from the brand after becoming a social media follower. The pattern among Twitter followers, email subscribers and Facebook fans was similar when asked about whether they would recommend a brand. Keep your business ahead of the digital curve. Check out today’s other article, “Email Retargeting to More Than Double.”
Free Images: Where To Find Royalty Free Stock Photos For Your Blog - Mini-Guide, Part 1 Learning 2.0 - 23 things to do Looming ruling on breast cancer drug splits patient advocates Marcia Gilbert has been fighting breast cancer for 15 years and credits her success to AvastinThe FDA is considering revoking its approval of Avastin as a treatment for breast cancerAn FDA advisory panel voted 12-1 to recommend revoking the preliminary approvalA final decision about Avastin will be reached by September 17 (CNN) -- Marcia Gilbert has spent most of her life in Charlotte, North Carolina, but for the end of summer, she decided to make a special trip. Gilbert, 56, spent the weekend before Labor Day in New York City. One evening, they found themselves at Del Posto, a chic Italian restaurant. "It was awfully late for me," she laughed as she told the story. Video: Breast cancer drug under review Late-night hours, any hours, are especially precious to Gilbert, who could have been forgiven for feeling just a bit weary. After years of ups and downs, Gilbert is doing well and gives most of the credit to her most recent medicine: bevacizumab, better known by its brand name, Avastin.
Social media positive for teens? Maybe! I'll admit it right at the start: When I think about teens and social media, I immediately begin to tally up the negatives. What good could possibly come from teens and tweens spending gobs of time on online networks, posting nonstop "selfies," some in rather suggestive poses, and often communicating with people they don't even know? A running joke at home: My girls, ages 6 and 7, can't get iPhones until they're 40. But then I chat with other moms, who always know best, and a picture emerges that social media is not always the scary enemy some of us might think it is for our tweens and teens. Take the "selfie," for example, which if you haven't already heard has been named Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year for 2013. Eileen Masio, a mom of two in New York, monitors her daughter Amelia's Instagram account 24/7. "When they post selfies, all the comments I usually see are 'You're beautiful,' 'You're so pretty,' 'Oh my God, gorgeous,'" said Masio. News outlets focus on the negative