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Friday, October 12th, 2007“It’s easy to dismiss MySpace, with its unruly graphics, clunky navigation, and general sense of chaos. But the masses love it. MySpace is the most trafficked website in the U.S.: It registered 45 billion page views in July, according to comScore Media Metrix. Another research firm, Compete.com, calculates that Americans spend about 12% of all [...]
Web schmoozing builds your resume
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007From the Jobs section of Monday’s NY Post, “Myspace Race”: “Having social-networking skills is now like being able to use Microsoft Office – it’s a basic requirement,†says Paul Forster of the job search engine Indeed.com, where the number of jobs with “social networking†in the description has tripled since last year. And: It seems [...]
Blog Catch-Up
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007+ Content Creation Online: 44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to cyberspace. + The Partnership for After School Education (PASE) has launched a podcast of its trainings, conferences, and symposia. The current online library is small, but appears to be growing. PASE has been a long-standing training resource, program [...]
Think before you post
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Powerful PSAs on the dangers of social networking. HT: Ben at UYWI Blog. Related + From “Say Everything” (New York magazine) …we’re living in frontier country right now. We can take guesses at the future, but it’s hard to gauge the effects of a drug while you’re still taking it. What happens when a person [...]
The future of the web
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007Web 2.0 is Us/ing Us Great primer on where the web is moving and how/why we need to leverage it for greater effectiveness.
Politics, but not as usual
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Taking their cues from Joe Trippi’s masterful Howard Dean campaign, both of the Democratic Party’s early front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama launched their presidential candicacies online. In her website’s first week, Clinton boasts that more than 200,000 people have participated in her “conversation”; 150,000 have registered for regular e-mail updates; and more than 50,000 [...]
What’s the strategy?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Concerts of Prayer wants more. Katie Sweeting sent the following question in response to the prayer summit. My response is an incomplete thought. … We need your help to fill in the blanks. Please offer insights and feedback in the comments section. You did an absolutely wonderful job with the prayer time. It was informative [...]
Sign of the times
Thursday, January 11th, 2007My soon to be 9-year-old niece and 10-year-old nephew built their first websites today. Go, kids! But be safe. We’ll talk about that later. Love you! Uncle J
“The Race to the Bottom”
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007Has the New York Times become prophetic in its treatment of youth issues? Beside’s the library article, the Times also exposes the lure of “web sites without rules” to young people in today’s issue. Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their [...]
In Teens
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006From the Washington Post. The high school English class cites several reasons for backing off of MySpace: Creepy people proposition them. Teachers and parents monitor them. New, more alluring free services comes along, so they collectively jump ship…. To a youth market composed of teens like Kim and Birnbaum, MySpace is just the latest online [...]
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