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Web 2.0 Thumbnail Sketch

Posted: February 27th, 2008 | Author: Mark Anderson | Filed under: Culture, Gadgets | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Social media and social networking sites offer new opportunities for organizations to publish content and interact with their customers. So just what the heck is Facebook? Why would I upload video to YouTube? Who stole the “e” from Flickr? Answers to these questions and more in this post. Read the rest of this entry »


New Report: Nearly 50 MM Americans Create Web Content

Posted: May 31st, 2006 | Author: Mark Anderson | Filed under: Content, Culture | Tags: , , | No Comments »

That’s right, 50,000,000! That’s according to the Pew & American Life Project.

The Web is becoming more participatory and users seem to be very willing to contribute. From the article:

“[The Web is] shifting now to user-generated content; it shows people engaging with the Internet in a number of different ways in their lives,” said John Horrigan

Even more salient for the higher ed market:

“Online content comes more often from younger people”

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