How To Get Started With Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking provides the ability to save your web browser’s bookmarks on a website to keep them organized. It also allows you to take your bookmarks with you. Since the bookmarks aren’t saved on your computer, you can reach your bookmarks from work or from a friend’s computer. But organizing your bookmarks and making them portable is only a small piece of the social bookmarking puzzle. It also allows you to share your bookmarks with others, be they friends, family, or complete strangers. Have you ever emailed a funny article to a friend? Or come across a website that...
Read MorePsychographics
The study also dove into the interests, aspirations, and behavior patterns of those most active on Twitter. Goals The top personal goals for Twitter users are: Save more money (74.5%), Exercise more often (63.0%) and Lose weight (58.2%). Internet 57.7% of Twitter users use the Internet more than three hours per day for personal use (outside of school or work) and are considered “heavy Internet users.” Media This is one area I’m not sure I agree and need to learn more about this before I comment… Some Twitter users are more likely to be “heavy users” of the following traditional...
Read MoreFacebook Sees the Future, and It is Mobile (and Gaming and Check-ins)
Facebook is moving decisively in three related areas, which it has identified as key growth areas based on its own recent experience as well as outside events: mobile access, casual gaming, and mobile check-ins (a small but growing subset of mobile access). The world’s largest online social network recently unveiled two big deals which should allow it to monetize mobile check-ins as and buttress its already considerable lead in casual gaming. On the mobile check-in front, this week Facebook announced a new mobile coupon service, “Deals,” which alerts Places users...
Read MorePolice to receive Facebook training
Detectives are to receive special social media training to learn how to use websites such as Facebook and Twitter to gather information on suspected criminals. Police officers will receive additional training on how to use social networking sites to gather evidence about the movements and whereabouts of suspected criminals. The National Policing Improvement Agency said that it would overhaul its training to teach detectives about evidence-gathering on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Around 3,500 detectives pass through the agency’s training courses each year. “This programme is a...
Read MoreNASA Launches Social Media Campaign
NASA has ramped up its use of social networks to underscore its latest activities in space, including the final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. A new partnership with Foursquare, tweets from Space Shuttle Discovery and a tweet up to celebrate the shuttle’s scheduled launch next week are all ways in which the space agency is fostering engagement with the public about the space program. Because of the nature of its work and the public’s interest in it, NASA more than any other federal agency has leveraged social media to engage with the public. An online catalogue of NASA...
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