The News Review:
- Social Media – Including Blogging – Now Popular Among Gen Y
- Athletes turn to wide world of blogging
- Twittering & blogging about terror
- Blogging moms
- World AIDS Day: Blogging Positively
- Survey: Twenty-Nine Percent of People Holiday Shop Online While at …
Social Media – Including Blogging – Now Popular Among Gen Y
PR Leap (press release) CA
Different from other surveys which track youth trends Anderson Analytics’ surveys contain several open ended questions which allow unaided more accurate insights into which advertisements brands and websites are most important among students. Results are then coded using advances text analytics. This years GenX2Z study went beyond the most popular websites and took a closer look at students use of social media including blogging discussion boards and social network services (SNS) such as Facebook Myspace and even professional networking site LinkedIn. Facebook remained the number one website this year after overtaking MySpace in 2007. Myspace has continued to drop and is currently in fourth place after Google and Yahoo! which both have offered additional services which students appreciate. Three new sites this year among the college students top-10 are LiveJournal Amazon and CNN. LiveJournal which is now in 6th place after YouTube is new on Anderson’s list and is indicative of how blogging is catching on among students.
Athletes turn to wide world of blogging
San Antonio Express TX
Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas (on NBA. com): Tells it how it is with good insight. Likes to break news on his blog. Hornets’ Tyson Chandler (.
Twittering & blogging about terror
Times of India India
Blogspopular networking and photo-sharing sites were abuzz with first-hand accountspictures and updates. Status messages too reflected the gamut ofemotions from anger at the terrorists to fear that the attacks might increasecommunal tensions. Users of Twitter a popular micro-blogging sitedocumented events in harrowing detail with tweets posted to the site at a rateof around 80 every five seconds. From requests for blood to helpline numbers ofhospitals the messages poured in. “I’ve been tweeting all night.
Blogging moms
News & Observer NC
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World AIDS Day: Blogging Positively
Global Voices Online MA
Rates of new HIV infections are also rising in many countries such as China Indonesia Kenya Mozambique Russia and Vietnam. AIDS is also taking its toll — 2 million people died of the disease last year. These first-hand accounts show both the progress that has been made in fighting this disease and how much work still needs to be done.
Survey: Twenty-Nine Percent of People Holiday Shop Online While at …
Occupational Health Safety TX
– E-mail: When it comes to digital correspondence 20 percent of workers send six or more non-work related e-mails per day. Among this group 22 percent spend more than 30 minutes during the typical workday doing so. ? Blogging: Nine percent of workers surveyed have a personal blog and while nearly a quarter (23 percent) of them spend time blogging at work only 9 percent of them spend 15 minutes or more blogging during the typical workday. ? Social Networking: Forty-one percent of workers surveyed have a MySpace Facebook or other social networking page. More than one-third (35 percent) of them spend time on their social networking page during the workday with 8 percent spending 30 minutes or more. ? Instant Messaging: Twenty percent of workers use instant messenger at least once a week.
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