Submitted by Infodiva:
Twitter -- the global chat service beloved by geeks and 'social media' fans -- often gets a somewhat deserved rap for being shallow, filled mostly with people's thoughts about the weather or what they had for breakfast. But every now and then something important happens, like an earthquake or a forest fire, and the service (Read More)
Submitted by Sarahcrisman:
More than 50% of US adults are using text messaging, blogging and other types of social media to regularly communicate with others, according to MediaPost, which reported results from the latest wave of Universal McCann’s large-scale “Media in Mind” tracking study. (Read More)
: Gah, horribly misleading title people! The article says 10% of all adults blog and 41% of adults say they've *never* sent a text message. So that means 59% have, thus, "more than half text,blog, otherwise use social media".
For such a statement to be accurate, this type of trend would need to be evident across all adult age brackets, but it's not. The article repeated states how the 18-34 age bracket (X and Y folks, I guess) are eating up the social media scene (which isn't news). For this to average out that half of *all* adults are working these activities, there must be next to *no* activity in these areas for the 45+ crowd.
Submitted by Eristoddle:
I’ve decided to run with that and list some good places to find social media jobs (if you’re a job-seeker), as well as some places to post social media jobs if you’re a manager at a company, or some sort of recruiter. (Read More)
Submitted by Onlinetreason:
Here are "15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read." A lot of of times bloggers, especially new ones, do not know where to look for help. Well, look no more. (Read More)
: I only read about 4 of these. Checked them all out. Don't see making any immediate changes (and I was beginning to update my Google Reader list this weekend) ?!
Submitted by Ramskill:
Smashing Magazine has just completed a survey of the layouts of the top 50 blogs in the world (as listed in Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs) .Why should you care what these bloggers are doing?Simply because the top bloggers live and breathe online content publishing. They measure everything they do and tweak their sites to conti (Read More)