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bio and photos for conferences/publications High Res Photos: Short bio: danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is also the founder and president of a new think/do tank called the Data & Society Research Institute. Her research examines the intersection of technology and society. Currently, she's focused on research questions related to "big data", privacy and publicity, and teen culture.

Multi Platform Social Media - diagram-by-diagram | PERSONALIZE M Over the years I have been creating lots of confusing, busy yet at the same time, meaningful and insightful emergent media diagrams. These attempt to help the uninitiated heritage media folk, get to grips with a multiplatform, shifting-social-media-sands, transmogodified entertainment landscape…breathe. So I have been uploading a bunch of these diagrams onto my flickr account over the past weeks, partly to make them more accessible to me too (oh the joys of the cloud) but with the creative commons tag, for all and sundry to use (attributed of course – the only way to power & fame nowadays – cackles!). Here is a short selection of the 25 or so already up, with brief descriptions – the main bunch is in a set called ‘Emergent Media’ here. The above diagram is intended to help storytellers simply understand a range of key places to distribute their story fragments or triggers online. The above is one of my favourite diagrams from way back in early 2006.

Statistical Methods for Rater Agreement The most common mistake made when analyzing agreement data is not having a explicit goal. It is not enough for the goal to be "measuring agreement" or "finding out if raters agree." There is presumably some reason why one wants to measure agreement. Which statistical method is best depends on this reason. For example, rating agreement studies are often used to evaluate a new rating system or instrument. Very often agreement studies are an indirect attempt to validate a new rating system or instrument. In other situations one may be considering combining the ratings of two or more raters to obtain evaluations of suitable accuracy. A second common problem in analyzing agreement is the failure to think about the data from the standpoint of theory. Sometimes one will not know the answers to these questions. These two issues--knowing ones goals and considering theory, are the main keys to successful analysis of agreement data. Consider that disagreement has different components. An example

Responsibilities of Community Managers This is a guest post by Itamar Kestenbaum. Follow him on Twitter. Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager, I get a varied response. But the response doesn’t vary enough. Really, many people trying to describe Online Community Managers, end up sounding like this: Others may know what Community Manager is, but don’t know exactly how much it entails. Make Friends In the Industry Community Managing is super easy when you’re working for a well-known tech company in the middle of Silicon Valley. If you’re representing a matchbook company, you might want to know the other matchbook manufacturer’s Marketing pros, the top CEOs of the large matchbook companies, and the press. Get to know the press before you need something from them. Knowing the right people is always good – but when you’re a Community Manager and want to establish your company as a thought leader in the industry, it’s a must to get on a first-name basis with people in the industry if you expect to position yourself in it.

Resources for ‘Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions’ - mia ridgemia ridge A collection of links for further reading for the British Library’s Digital Scholarship course on ‘Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions’. Last updated June 2016. If you found this post useful, you might be interested in my book, Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage. Crowdsourcing projects discussed Other relevant crowdsourcing projects Waisda? Crowdsourcing review exercise links Or for international projects: Crowdsourcing the world’s heritage There are additional discussion questions and notes for reviewing sites on another post on ‘NITLE ‘Crowdsourcing’ seminar‘. Additional exercises listed on Exercises for ‘The basics of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage’ are ‘compare front pages’ and ‘lessons from game design’. Useful blogs References These are showing their age but they’re still a good starting point. History of crowdsourcing Motivations and other background Clary, E.

apophenia Like everyone who cares about Crisis Text Line and the people we serve, I have spent the last few days reflecting on recent critiques about the organization’s practices. Having spent my career thinking about and grappling with tech ethics and privacy issues, I knew that – had I not been privy to the details and context that I know – I would be outraged by what folks heard this weekend. I would be doing what many of my friends and colleagues are doing, voicing anger and disgust. But as a founding board member of Crisis Text Line, who served as board chair from June 2020 until the beginning of January 2021, I also have additional information that shaped how I thought about these matters and informed my actions and votes over the last eight years. As a director, I am currently working with others on the board and in the organization to chart a path forward. Texters come to us in their darkest moments. First: Why data? Storing data immediately prompted three key questions: I’m a scholar. 1.

Search and Social Media Marketing Consulting | Stuntdubl SEO Con Linkbaiting is all about the bait. In the same way that you can’t catch a giant tuna with a bag of doritos – you’re not going to get the attention of important bloggers, journalists, or other folks with some garbage content or news. Do YOU really like reading press releases anymore? Wouldn’t you rather spend that time reading something fun, entertaining, insightful, interesting, or informational? Let’s take a look at the different hooks available to linkbaiters (or viral marketer’s if you prefer that school of thought), and hope that you can find an angle to approach link acquisition for YOUR business. In the original post that coined the term linkbaiting, Nick Wilson mentions 5 linkbaiting “hooks”: News hookContrary HookAttack HookResource HookHumour Hook I’d like to add a few new hooks to Mr. Introduction – A note on titles, target audience, and school of thought. The importance of good titles cannot be underestimated. Linkbaiting IS NOT Viral Marketing Ideas for this hook: Go niche.

Inter-Rater Reliability Calculator Inter-Rater Reliability Calculator† This program will estimate the reliability of a set of ratings or other scores based on a formula presented by Robert Ebel. Ebel RL. Estimation of the reliability of ratings. Psychometrika 1951:16;407-424. The formula approximates an intraclass correlation and is very flexible in that it requires no assumptions about the number of judges rating each person or object rated nor which judges rate each person or object. Organizing the ratings for analysis is easy and can be done on your personal computer.

The Age of Social Networks inShare6 Social networks share a common ingredient in design and intent, the connection of people and the facilitation of conversations, sharing, and discovery. What they do not share however, are culture, behavior, and prevailing demographics. Each network is unique in its genetic and cultural composition and it is for that reason that we benefit by becoming digital anthropologists in addition to new media marketers. Demographics are distributed within all social networks, but only concentrated within a select few. Over the years, I’ve relied on Google Ad Planner to surface the critical demographics in order to construct meaningful and targeted social programming. The study included 19 social networks… Bebo Classmates.com Delicious Digg Facebook FriendFeed Friendster Hi5 Last.fm LinkedIn LiveJournal MySpace Ning Reddit Slashdot StumbleUpon Twitter Tagged Xanga Age Distribution Distribution of Age Within Social Networks Delicious - Over 25% of users are 35-44 Reddit - 30% are 35-44

Content Curation Best Practices----- dissertation The proliferation of the Internet has transformed the way we create, publish and distribute content. Think about the pre-Internet era when companies were at the mercy of content publishers for distribution of content, and where consumers had very few options and meager resources for information gathering. Today, the situation is exactly the opposite. The Internet has made a publisher of each one of us. We now have a problem of plenty – there is too much information available for consumers but it is scattered across the web in different forms, across social networks, and in different languages. And now the new challenge for marketers is to make themselves visible to their consumers in this information deluge. So how does one handle this information overload and how do B2B marketers compete to stay on the top of search results, in this continuous flood of content that will only increase by the day? So what exactly is content curation? Some of the advantages of content curation include:

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