April 20th, 2008 by Kyle James
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted something in the Social Survey series, but after seeing this video on ProBlogger, Why I Love Twitter, last week I knew that I was ready to tackle my toughest task yet. Finding a Higher Education use for Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 25th, 2008 by Kyle James
Intro
In a simple explanation del.icio.us is a bookmarking service that uses tags instead of folders to organize bookmarks. Because del.icio.us is an online service it is not restricted to a physical computer. The only thing that you need is a web browser. Many sites across the Internet support multiple bookmarking options and del.icio.us is one of the most widespread. Instead of trying to explain del.icio.us any further here is a really good short intro that explains del.icio.us and even gives a pretty good educational related example. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 18th, 2008 by Kyle James
According to eBizMBA, StumbleUpon is the 5th largest social bookmarking site. It is one of the most well known and many people would say the most fun to use social bookmarking sites. What makes StumbleUpon so much fun is the StumbleUpon toolbar. What is so amazing about this toolbar is the ability to truly surf the web. Once installed you can set your preferences and interest and surf the web getting recommendations based on your interest. If your interested in “Higher Education” and “Internet Marketing” then you will be more likely to get these sorts of sites shown to you. By rating the sites that you like and don’t like using the toolbars “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” options the system learns your preferences and narrows down the sites that it sends you too.
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February 11th, 2008 by Kyle James
Introduction
Writing a review of Digg pertaining to Higher Education is much more difficult than writing one for MySpace or Facebook. Digg is the first of the true Social Bookmarking sites that I’ve covered and is by far the largest, Top 30 Social Bookmarking Sites. Digg has an Alexa ranking of 150 and reaches 0.64% of internet users. According to Compete, Digg has just under 20 million monthly visitors. Just looking at the numbers Digg has absolutely incredible potential to expose any business to millions of Internet users.
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February 4th, 2008 by Kyle James
This is the second weekly installment of the Social Survey that I’m conducting on Social Networking and Bookmarking sites on the internet. This week I’ve researched MySpace. Here are the findings.
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January 30th, 2008 by Kyle James
According to recent results published by Pew Research Center, nearly one in four Americans regularly use the web to learn about presidential candidates and their campaign.
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January 28th, 2008 by Kyle James
As I mentioned last week I’m going to be doing a weekly look into a different social booking/networking site. First up is Facebook and here are the findings. Read the rest of this entry »
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