Most people would agree that social media has become an important part of our modern daily lives. Digital natives spend a lot of time using Twitter, updating statuses on FaceBook, blogging, and engaging with other online users, overtime this engagement builds an online reputation.
In an increasingly competitve job market future employers are looking for individuals who are prepared to go that extra mile to demonstrate their knowledge, expertise or passion for a new role. Social media is one of the many tools that need to be part of any strategy when looking for a new job, but remember it’s not the only one.
Twittamentary is a documentary about the everyday people who use Twitter, from a travel journalist turned “Twilebrity” to a porn star who uses Twitter to stay in touch with her fans, from a stock trader who tweets from the world’s largest exchange to a homeless woman who uses Twitter to find a place to live. The movie is always shown in a dual screen mode, with a live twitter wall, thus creating a unique cinematic experience where the audience can interact with the cast and crew, in real-time, while watching the movie.
For the past 10 years Google has always published a year-end Zeitgeist report on the major search trends around the world, 2011 is no except – they have sorted billions of searches to capture the year’s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the spirit of 2011.
It would be odd if we didn’t wrap up the year without some kind of closing piece on what has happened in 2011. So, here’s a video from the team at www.videoinfographs.com – full of facts and figures from the world of social media.
Do you have the right to be anonymous online? If so, when? Anonymity protects Syrian political activists, internet trolls and criminals alike. There are no easy answers to the questions around Digital Anonymity.
Digital Anonymity was the first theme to be tackled as part of a new series of media140+ events that will be hosted in Sydney, London and Barcelona in 2012. Over the next 12 months we’ll be bringing together the some of the most exciting and influential thinkers in digital media to share their experience and knowledge with a small number of participants.
“To better understand social consumers, we asked 3,000 US and UK consumers about the two products and services they had most recently researched online and how they went about it. Today’s social consumer is one that can either be categorized as a high or low sharer, who utilizes various digital channels differently depending on whether he or she is researching and interacting with high or low involvement products. “
The ‘Business of Social Business’ is the second media140 event to be hosted in the salubrious Durham street auditorium. A theatre that has been built on the last remaining stretch of 18th-century cobbled roadway, which was part of a tunnel beneath the House leading down to the Thames. Speakers included Ann Holman, Paul Skinner, Andrew Grill and Warren Buckley, with the event being sponsored by PeopleBrowsr.
Working in collaboration with RedFront, media140 launched a new crowd sourced ‘unethical web‘ project at our event in the 15th September at the Royal Society of Arts.
The crowd sourced project is being used to curate examples of unethical practises on the web in the fields of business, journalism, politics, education and advertising. We are asking the media140 community to help to contribute to the Tumblr in sourcing as many examples as possible.
The fourth of a series of six blogs, guest contributor Ann Holman, takes a closer look at the progression of the social media behemoth Facebook. Now the dust has settled for a while let’s keep this simple, I detest complication! It’s not a case of whether Facebook goes for an IPO, it’s just a matter of when. On balance it looks like the company is going to be forced to make the move legally combined with demands being placed on it by its current investors and employees.
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