| With reports of young people abandoning e-mail to communicate via social networks, Facebook developing its own full-featured Webmail system and predictions that in a few years even business users will have exchanged traditional e-mail for social sites, it would appear that the success of social networks was hurting e-mail usage. |
| Those inboxes, in most cases, are the same ones marketers are trying to reach. A strong majority of social network users surveyed said they used the same e-mail address for their social activities as they gave for permission e-mail marketing campaigns. As networked users check on their updates avidly, they are also putting themselves in the reach of e-mail marketers.Read more at www.emarketer.com |
Since 1980, the rate of obesity has been increasing so steadily that nearly half of all Americans are expected to be obese by 2020. As our waistlines grow, public health officials are looking for ways to shrink our appetites. According to obesity research, the average American’s weight is not the only thing increasing. The number of restaurants in the United States is at a record high. People eat restaurant food more often than ever before, and people who report high consumption of restaurant food—particularly fast food—are heavier than those who eat food cooked at home. |
There is an inherent tension in the field of public health: How do you effect the greatest good for the greatest number of people without denying them personal freedom? It might seem reasonable to impose a quarantine during an outbreak of a highly infectious disease with a terrifying fatality rate, but how should we regulate factors that contribute to slow killers such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity? Read more at insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu |
meg wilcox gives an insight and comparison of US social media politicians vs canadian ob Rae has a problem with Facebook. “I’m only allowed to have 5,000 friends,” laments the MP for Toronto Centre. “I have about 1,600 people on the waiting list that I can’t add.” Facebook isn’t budging. They’ve told Rae if he wants to have more friends, he should start himself a fan page. But Rae’s not interested. “Fan pages are different. A fan is not a friend.” U.S. President Barack Obama’s successful use of new media in his presidential campaign has generated an enthusiastic buzz about social media’s potential for linking politicians with the public. Unsurprisingly, Canadian politicians have since been jumping on to popular networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in hopes of connecting with a wider audience. Read more at www.ottawacitizen.com |
You probably know that could have been me | 7 hours, 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, computer |
Young people now devote an average of seven hours and 38 minutes to daily media use, or about 53 hours a week — more than a full-time job — according to Kaiser Family Foundation findings released today.
A few years ago, the same researchers thought that teens and tweens were consuming about as much media as humanly possible in the hours available. But somehow, young people have found a way to pack in even more.
But in the last five years, the time that America’s 8- to 18-year-olds spend watching TV, playing video games and using a computer for entertainment has risen by one hour, 17 minutes a day, the Kaiser study found.
“What surprised me the most is the sheer amount of media content coming into their lives each day,” said Kaiser’s Vicky Rideout, who directed the study. “When you step back and look at the big picture, it’s a little overwhelming.”Read more at www.latimes.com |
This is a new service for people to automatically post their purchases online, share them and discuss them with friends. blippy.com I am still waiting for an invite. you will know when i can afford to buy a car worth more than 30k lol Entrepreneur Philip Kaplan is probably best known for starting F—edCompany.com, the site that poked fun at the start-up busts during the dot-com bubble. But he also founded AdBrite Inc., a fast-growing online advertising company backed by Sequoia Capital. Now he’s starting a new Internet company called Blippy.com, which is a service for people to automatically post their purchases online, share them and discuss them with friends. Read more at blogs.wsj.com |
Alicia Kan says “I want to create social value, not shareholder value now,” in this very interesting article. I am one of those who needs constant advice on dress and also the need to continually get rid of old stuff. | Packing [the clothes] up for shipping is saying good-bye to a former life, |
I suspect that the pace of change in technology and business also contributes to people’s sense that it’s time to change skins. Our jobs and industries keep moving, morphing, and disappearing, creating opportunities for image changes—or the fear that we’ll need to change, whether we like it or not. |
Despite the lure of letting go, Dr. Holstein suggests avoiding hasty decisions to leave a job or home or even to toss out significant portions of your closet. And she warns against purging photos and mementos—items that can never be replaced if your feelings change later. “The average person has a natural pull to stay connected to who they were,” she says. |
Once a transition is in the works, it’s important to recognize that more than objects will be ejected. “You look at your LinkedIn contacts and think, ‘They’re not all going to make the journey with me,’ ” says Ms. Kan. Read more at online.wsj.com |
If you are not already following the blog http://altitudebranding.com of Amber Naslund Director of Community for Radian6 you should. Her posts are one of the selected few I subscribe to by email also so that I don’t miss any posts. This was good and I am going to be more productive in 2010 coz of this  I’ve lost count of how many times people ask me how I stay organized and manage projects and tasks. For some reason, getting and staying organized seems to be a tough thing for a lot of people, so I promised I’d share some of what I do and what I’ve learned.
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Project Management and the Dynamite Philosophy |
Figuring Out How you Think |
Something critical about organization and project management is understanding how you process information. Not everyone does it the same way, and it requires paying attention to yourself and your first instincts when you have a new project to tackle. Read more at altitudebranding.com |
Love this article in the Wired. Every year people make the same ridiculous New Years resolutions that they know darn well they won’t keep. Lose weight, exercise more, eat better, quit smoking, stop fishing illegally off private docks and so on. Yet when March rolls around, they are still sitting on a dock with a fishing pole in one hand, a bag of cheetos in the other and a cigarette hanging from their lip. I’m speaking rhetorically, but you get the drift. |
We all make resolutions that are outside our range of being and generally boneheaded. So how about this year we make some resolutions we can actually keep? So with a little idea help from my Twitter pals, I’ve come up with 12 geeky New Years resolutions that for the most part, I actually plan on keeping. Read more at www.wired.com |
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