An introduction to social media, prepared for a seminar for communications and public relations professionals in Helsinki, Finland, January 2009, by Jos Schuurmans, http://www.josschuurmans.com/contact
Introduction to Multilingual Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Social Media Introduction for Communications and PR Professionals - by Jos Schuurmans
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2. Number crunching Technorati: State of the Blogosphere, 2008 http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ comScore MediaMetrix (August 2008) o Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the US o Facebook: 41.0 million | MySpace 75.1 million o Total internet audience 188.9 million eMarketer (May 2008) o 94.1 million US blog readers in 2007 (50% of Internet users) o 22.6 million US bloggers in 2007 (12%) Universal McCann (March 2008) o 184 million WW have started a blog | 26.4 US o 346 million WW read blogs | 60.3 US o 77% of active Internet users read blogs
3. Number crunching Technorati: State of the Blogosphere, 2008 http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/
4. Number crunching Pew Internet & American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/527/press_coverageitem.asp
5. But what are we talking about, really ? CC: Clearly Ambiguous, http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/40437932/
26. Niall Cook has a really good story about social sofware for internal purposes: http://www.slideshare.net/niallcook/enterprise-20-presentation-648032?nocache=3504 ” (...) 2009 will see the first wave of ‘digital natives’ that are so immersed in digital culture that they are completely unconcerned about the effects of their technology choices on their organizations. (...)”
27. As reported by eWeek: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Digital-Natives-Will-Drive-Web-20-into-Your-Business/
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49. SHIFT's first Social Media Release (SMR) template: http://www.shiftcomm.com/downloads/smprtemplate.pdf
50. PRX Builder's Social Media Release (SMR) creation tool: http://www.prxbuilder.com