The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,500 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 14 years to get that many views.
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Via Scoop.it – elearning&knowledge_management
Infographics are visual representations of information, or “data viz” as the cool kids call it these days.
Via www.smashingmagazine.com
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“This is a report (from the New York Times) of a new biology textbook published by Macmillan. It includes audio and video clips, short quizzes, dynamic graphics and other forms of interaction for the learner.”
Via www.tonybates.ca
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Via Scoop.it – SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about!
After creating content — whether it’s a blog post, an ebook, a webinar, or a video — it’s important to promote that content through social media channels. And when you do promote that content in social media, you cross your fingers that it generates a ton of shares, tweets, and interaction. For the sake of Twitter, if you follow a few simple best practices, more people are likely to retweet and spread the distribution of your content, giving it a much broader reach and a better opportunity to get found by a new audience of prospective customers beyond your direct followers. Marketers should know how to retweet the right way, but it’s also critical for them to learn how to get others to retweet their content, too. 11 Tips for Getting People to Retweet Your Content…
Via blog.hubspot.com
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This infographic breaks down the purchasing patterns of social consumers by industry. The data could help marketers optimize their budgets.
Via mashable.com
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The name Curisma comes from curation, curiosity, and charisma and Curisma helps you discover and buy cool tech products you love through personalized recommendations and deals, combining community-sourcing with machine learning.
Users can freely add new products and tools to Curisma by using a simple bookmarklet. For more info check: http://curisma.com/
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What do we mean when talking about reader engagement? Well, in terms of blogging the first things that come to mind are comments, sharing, questions, conversion rates. To sum up we could compare reader engagement with building a community. A community where readers care about each other, where action doesn’t stop after reading the final paragraph and where exciting discussions are born. Unfortunately, good content and neat design aren’t the only factors which affect reader engagement. You need to learn to focus readers attention and start a conversation. Developing an engagement is a win-win situation. Your visitors will want to explore more and join the conversation but you, as the publisher, will be looking at higher conversion rates. Gamification is a whole branch in reader engagement which brings together game mechanics and marketing to create engagement and solve problems. What do we understand with game mechanics from a web standpoint? Well, that doesn’t necessarily has to be the traditional online games as we are used to seeing them…
Via www.1stwebdesigner.com
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Via Scoop.it – The Information Professional
Gordon Belt: “While there are many individual archivists doing outstanding work in productively applying social media in the workplace, as a whole our profession is very far behind our colleagues in the library community. As a member of the Special Libraries Association, I see first-hand the efforts made by that organization to embrace technology, and the initiative among special collections librarians to be “future ready” in the information age. But what are archivists doing in a collective way to prepare for work that is increasingly being done in “The Cloud?”
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The following report is brought to you by the Pivot Conference taking place in New York on October 15-16, 2012. You can download a full copy of the report for free by clicking here.
At the end of 2011, Social marketing stands at a profound crossroads. Some organizations are finally embracing the importance of social networks and, as a result, increasing investments in creative engagement, marketing, and service programs. Others see the future value, but lag behind in execution. At the vanguard, Social Businesses drive a virtuous cycle of discovery: Their successes in Social marketing lead to new data, which lead to insights, which lead to new and more effective programs as well as the business systems and processes necessary to improve internal and external collaboration…
Via www.briansolis.com
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Before the days of tweeting and texting, people communicated with one another a little differently. Here is a look at the evolution of communication through the ages, and the methods and tools that have helped connect us all.
Via visual.ly
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Errol A. Adams, J.D., M. L. S. (CLEO/Thurgood Marshall Scholar & IMLS Scholar/AALL Scholar) completed his MLS at St. Johns University, New York, NY and is currently employed as an Academic Law Librarian at the College of the Bahamas. His areas of expertise include Law Librarianship, Information Specialist, Business Development, Competitive Intelligence/Marketing and Knowledge Management among others. Errol received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Judicial Studies in 1997 from CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and his Juris Doctor degree while as a CLEO/Thurgood Marshall Scholar in 2003 from Touro Law.
While at Touro Law he held a variety of leadership roles in student organizations including being the President of the Black Law Students Association. He represented Touro Law at The National Black Law Students Association'sAnnual Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition in 2003 placing Touro Law in the semi-finals. He also received a Special Service Award from Touro Law.
Errol has maintained internships at various organizations including Queens County District Attorney's Office, while attending law school. He has worked for a Non-Profit organization in New York and various New York City government agencies including managing Riker's Island facilities' law libraries He also worked for New York State Government in New York State's Unified Court System as a Senior Law Librarian. Most recently Errol has interned at the National Archive Records and Administration and has worked at Kaye Scholer LLP as an Information Specialist further cultivating his fascination with law librarianship and now business development otherwise known as competitive intelligence.
Errol also currently volunteers in two positions at a Non-profit organization performing cataloging and preparing digital media news letters. Errol also holds a volunteer position with Greater New York American Red Cross assisting victim of disasters.
Errol's avid interest in pursuing his librarian/legal career is evident in his plans to further ameliorate the authenticity issues among other issues in New York as the former chair of Law Librarian Association of Greater New York,(LLAGNY) Government Relations Committee and former board member. He is also a former committee member of the American Association of Law Librarians' Government Relations Committee where he has been in the forefront advocating for Law Librarians nationwide.
