Social Tools Come to Business–Part 2
- Quote: MIT Center for Marketing Research: “As one of, if not the, first studies of social media adoption with statistical significance, this research proves conclusively that social media is coming to the business world and sooner than many anticipated.”
Note: See previous entry re: IBM. This study surveyed over 140 Inc 500 companies. Even more to chew on regarding why we need to teach this, even though the executive summary is pretty thin and the adoption rates (11% for wikis, for example) are still very small.
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IBM and The University of Arizona Bring Web 2.0 and Social Networking to the Classroom – United States Annotated(1)
- Quote: The analyst firm Gartner Group predicts that by 2008, the majority of
Global 1,000 companies will quickly adopt several technology-related
aspects of Web 2.0 to advance their businesses.Note: Another reason why we should be teaching social technologies to our kids.
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Newspaper Video Survival Guide
- Quote: Here’s what you need to know if your boss hands you a camera and tells you to do a video story… –Chuck Fadley
Note: Might be of use for those of you here in the Garden State who are thinking of contributing to TV Jersey. Just put a video up on YouTube with the tag “tvjersey” and it will be pulled onto the page automatically. Wonderful stuff.
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Training Citizens to be Journalists
- Quote: “This is where the rubber meets the road for citizen journalism — where people who have something important to say finally get a platform, a channel, in which to publish and broadcast.” –Mindy McAdams
Note: I’ve been thinking lately, wouldn’t it be a good idea in this environment to just teach all of our kids to be journalists?
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24-Hour Newspaper People – New York Times
- Great quote in a story about being a New York Times reporter/blogger:
“We are living through the largest expansion of expressive capability
in the history of the human race,†said Clay Shirky, an adjunct
professor in the graduate interactive telecommunications program at New York University.
“And it wouldn’t be a revolution if there were no losers. The speed of
conversation is a part of what is good about it, but then some of the
reflectiveness, the ability for careful summation and expression, is
lost.‖ post by willrich
Yes. We should teach all students to be journalists — but we should have been doing that anyway. Crap detectors, every one.
That’s better formatting. Thanks.
In an interesting inverse of that–I blogged an article from the Columbia Journalism Review which was about how web 2.0 should change newspaper journalism.
The author posits that newspapers should take on the challenge of analyzing and looking for deeper connections with news stories rather than reporting factoids that the web can do faster.