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A massive survey of internet users reveals trends in social media usage across numerous platforms, ages, races, genders, population density and which social media sites do they frequently visit. The Pew Research Center has released the results of a comprehensive social media survey, conducted over several years to evaluate which demographics were using social media, and on which platforms. Which social networking sites emerged on top? Of the online adults surveyed at the end of 2012: 67% use Facebook 20% use LinkedIn 16% use Twitter 15% use Pinterest 13% use Instagram 6% use Tumblr A decent amount of Americans appear to be using social media, but which demographics use social media in greater numbers? It appears that women use social media 9% more than men do, at a whopping rate of 71%. Other frontrunners with the highest social network activity in their demographic include city dwellers(70%), Hispanics (72%) and adults with a household income below $30,000 annually (72%). The most pervasive and consistent divider amongst social media users remains, unsurprisingly, their age. 83% of the young adult demographic (18-29 year olds) use social media, which is well over double the activity of online adults over 65 years old (32%).
Via Jonha Revesencio, Luigi Cangiano, Gust MEES
Google reveals more details about its smart glasses project and invites "creative individuals" to try out the device.
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REVEALED: The 10 Countries With The Most Active Twitter Users...
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Do you know what technology you’ll be using in the classroom 5 years from now? What about 10 years from now? A new visualization may be able to help. Thanks to the hard work by Envisioning Tech, it’s simple to see what we could expect to happen in the next few decades. From today’s iPads to holograms in the year 2040, there’s a lot coming to a classroom near you.
Via Timo Ilomäki, Gust MEES, Frederic DOMON
Google Drive's terms of service do indeed allow you to own your own files, but grant the company a license to do as it wants with your uploaded content. Read this blog post by Zack Whittaker on Internet & Media. Read more...
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Childnet, part of the UK Safer Internet Centre, has produced four successful editions of a leaflet aimed at keeping parents, teachers and young people well informed on how to stay safe and legal when enjoying entertainment on the internet or via a mobile device.
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Pinterest: Updated Terms of Service
===> Pinterest changed their Terms. Please read... <=== Updated Terms of Service Over the last few weeks, we've been working on an update to our Terms. When we first launched Pinterest, we used a standard set of Terms. We think that the updated Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy are easier to understand and better reflect the direction our company is headed in the future. We'd encourage you to read these changes in their entirety, but we thought there were a few changes worth noting. Our original Terms stated that by posting content to Pinterest you grant Pinterest the right for to sell your content. Selling content was never our intention and we removed this from our updated Terms.
We updated our Acceptable Use Policy and we will not allow pins that explicitly encourage self-harm or self-abuse.
We released simpler tools for anyone to report alleged copyright or trademark infringements.
Finally, we added language that will pave the way for new features such as a Pinterest API and Private Pinboards.
We think these changes are important and we encourage you to review the new documents here. These terms will go into effect for all users on April 6, 2012.
Like everything at Pinterest, these updates are a work in progress that we will continue to improve upon. We're working hard to make Pinterest the best place for you to find inspiration from people who share your interest. We've gotten a lot of help from our community as we've crafted these Terms. Thanks! Ben & the Pinterest Team - Terms and Privacy: https://pinterest.com/about/terms/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=pinterest.com - Acceptable Use Policy: https://pinterest.com/about/use/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pinterest.com - Privacy Policy: https://pinterest.com/about/privacy/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pinterest.com
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Robin Good: If you are looking for ways to let your scoop.it content to reach more people and to get discovered by those who are not yet aware of you, the new Pinterest integration in Scoop.it should certainly be a welcome addition. With this new addition, not only you can share your curated stories inside your Scoop.it newsradar with your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr and Wordpress friends, but you can also "pin" selected ones to create alternative "collections" on Pinterest.
One potentially good approach is the one of leveraging Pinterest to do what Scoop.it is not (yet) so good at. For example, after you have been curating a newsradar for a while, you can easily create "greatest hits" collections out of the best ones, or sub-thematic digests on specific topics, and Pinterest is a perfect tool to do that.
In essence you can "re-curate" your own curated news, in alternative ways which take advantage of Pinterest strength in building "visual collections" rather than news channels.
More info: http://blog.scoop.it/en/2012/02/24/you-can-now-share-your-scoops-on-pinterest/
Via Robin Good, Gust MEES
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There are many reasons we use social media. From the basic to the more advanced, the tool is simply ubiquitous and addictive. This infographic sheds some light for us all.
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We're all already using Twitter it seems. But should we? This flowchart answers the big question: should you use Twitter?
Via Gust MEES, donhornsby
Some teachers embrace technology and social media. Others lurk. Many ignore. So what does the average teacher do if they’re somewhere in the middle? Why, use the handy infographic from Online Colleges of course! Below you’ll see a guide to who is using social media (pretty much everyone is aware of it) to which actual social networks they prefer. Read more: http://edudemic.com/2012/07/a-teachers-guide-to-social-media/
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Online social media has become an integral part of daily life for many Internet users and there are now hundreds of millions utilising these services around the world. Concomitant with this growth of usage is a desire by companies, government agencies, and academics to study and map the data trails left by people using services like Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. The data shadows and information trails left by users online reveal social, economic, and political processes and practices. Twitter, in particular, is repeatedly used as a repository of social data because of its relatively open network that allows researchers access to almost any information published through the platform. Yet, despite the many studies (both inside and outside of academia) that draw on data from Twitter, there is little scholarship devoted to the geography of Twitter. Read more: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/?id=4fe09570
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Using emotional intelligence can help you succeed as a leader. But what is emotional intelligence, and why is it that success in life sometimes seems unrelated to intelligence and how hard you are prepared to work? Dr Goleman describes five main elements of emotional intelligence: - Self-awareness.
- Self-regulation.
- Motivation.
- Empathy.
- Social skills.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage both your own emotions, and those of the people you lead. Having a high EQ means knowing what you are feeling, what this means, and how your emotions can affect other people. For leaders, having emotional intelligence is essential for success. Take time to work on self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. They will certainly help ensure that you succeed as a leader. Read more...
Via Gust MEES, Frederic DOMON
One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol ("#") at the start to identify it.
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Twitter has acquired Posterous, the best blogging platform (imho). This is probably the beginning of an end for Posterous brand and service.
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In its Policy Priorities report, Can Social Media and School Policies be “Friends,” ASCD provides a state-of-the union on social media use in schools. How administrators and educators deal with federal regulations, defining what’s legal, parsing out school responsibilities and weighing them against the benefits of using social media to engage and communicate with students are all addressed in this useful guide.
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Un sito, che analizzando i tweets in rete determina lo stato degli utenti: se felici, o tristi. Analisi divisa per città e regioni