Category Archives: social media

A few Social Media Myths addressed, including the median ages of the users of a few popular social networking sites.

Some stats about the words that appear in normal, versus retweeted tweets.

[/karen/] Reading through this post, and the article that prompted it makes me wonder: what can we do to stop this from becoming an even bigger problem? 13-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide After Classmates Spread “Sexting” photos.

From my backlog of posts I’ve been meaning to link to: Still Don’t Think Social Media Matters? I’m not sure how useful all these stats are to someone who is actually working on social media, but if you’re trying to get your head around how many people are involved out there, or work out if …

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How to incorporate testing in your email-marketing.

Have conferences jumped the shark? Perhaps the future of conferences lies not in opening them up further through real-time collaboration tools like twitter, but in having people switch off their laptops and phones, and being present in actual face-to-face collaborative sessions like the one details in this fast company article Fixing Conferences: Six Lessons From …

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[ /karen/ ] The Wall Street Journal asks: can email survive the social era? Though I have a lot of different accounts on a lot of different social sites, I still tend to use email as the hub for all of these accounts – it’s an email notification that tells me I have a new …

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[ Buzz Bin ] The Science of Retweets on Twitter

You might be surprised that there are even this many, but here’s a list (from June!) of 30 Twitter Tools For Managing Followers.