Presentation delivered at "Is There An App For That?" - a CPD25 event held in London on 25th July 2014. The presentation looks at how people interact with the internet, the popularity of certain tools and how I am currently exploring their suitability and potential as tools for a subject library in Higher Education.
http://www.cpd25.ac.uk/events/social-media-event-event-ref-tg3soc/
8. Resident
…see the Web as a place…in which there are clusters of
friends and colleagues…with whom they can share
information about their life and work.
11. 29%
40%
of adults use Twitter1
use Twitter
as a
curated
news feed
of updates2
1. Ofcom http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-
literacy/adults-2014/2014_Adults_report.pdf
2. Twitter blog https://blog.twitter.com/en-gb/2013/twitter7-0
3. Tony Wang (former VP at Twitter)
https://twitter.com/TonyW/status/375889809153462272
15mactive
accounts3
17. 80%pins are repins1
1. http://blog.rjmetrics.com/2012/02/15/pinterest-data-analysis-an-inside-look/
2. Semio cast:
http://semiocast.com/en/publications/2013_07_10_Pinterest_has_70_million_users
3. TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/pinterest-monthly-uniques/
2m+users2
98
mins per
month on
the site3
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23. 7m
magazines1
1. Flipboard Blog http://inside.flipboard.com/2014/03/27/one-year-
and-seven-million-flipboard-magazines-later-find-one-just-for-you/
2. The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-
blog/2014/jan/12/digital-magazine-app-flipboard
3. Ad Age http://adage.com/article/digital/flipboard-hits-90-million-
users-doubles-april/244627/
100m+users2
7bnpages/month3
30. images
Slide 4: Alan Levine on flickr https://flic.kr/p/yeux
Slide 5: Thomas Hawk on flickr https://flic.kr/p/bZz2FL
Slide 7: Steve Davidson on flickr https://flic.kr/p/njoJPy
Slide 8: Michael Moore on flickr https://flic.kr/p/kFT6xZ
Slide 10: Theilr on flickr https://flic.kr/p/4faRb1
Slide 16: Derek Bruff on flickr https://flic.kr/p/aZS4gp
Slide 22: Dan Taylr on flickr https://flic.kr/p/9qEcHc
Slide 28: Duncan Hull on flickr https://flic.kr/p/iVLZt
Slide 30: William Cho on flickr https://flic.kr/p/5BLpd5
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