Posts Tagged ‘Blogs’
US Inc. 500: less blogging, more Facebooking
To read in Information Today Europe:
For the last five years the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research has been conducting a study about the use of social media in the 500 fastest growing organisations in the US (The Inc. 500.) The first study, conducted in 2007, found that these companies were much more likely to have adopted blogs than those in the ‘traditional’ Fortune 500.
The latest findings show that the use of blogging in the Inc. 500 companies is declining for the first time. Blogging had declined to 37% from 50% in 2010. (…)
However, as blogging reaches maturity in these organisations, the use of other social media, including Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Mobile apps, texting, Twitter and YouTube, is growing. 74% of responding companies were using Facebook, and 73% using LinkedIn. (…)
Read further:
Val Skelton, A blog post about the decline of blogging. Information Today Europe Blog, 2nd of February 2012.
http://www.infotodayeurope.com/2012/02/02/a-blog-post-about-the-decline-of-blogging/
Science bloggers don’t like science journalist… And vice-versa!
“Scientists generally criticize journalists for being over-simplistic, while journalists criticize researchers for being non-communicative. However, with the advent of Web 2.0, some researchers became more communicative by creating their own blogs. (…)
This article discusses the online relationships between science journalists and science bloggers.
The findings of this study show that science journalists do not generally see science blogs as valuable sources of information. At the same time, it confirms that some scientists use their blogs to circumvent traditional media“.
Colson, Vinciane. Science blogs as competing channels for the dissemination of science news. Journalism, October 2011 vol. 12 no. 7, pp. 889-902.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884911412834
Selected Tweet: “Reclaim Blogging: why I’m giving up Facebook and Twitter”
[Via @DavidGurteen ]
By the famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod:
”
Earlier today I told everybody on Twitter and Facebook, that I’m leaving Twitter and Facebook.
Why?
Because Facebook and Twitter are too easy. Keeping up a decent blog that people actually want to take the time to read, that’s much harder. And it’s the hard stuff that pays off in the end.
Besides, even if they’re very good at hiding the fact, over on Twitter and Facebook, it’s not your content, it’s their content”
Plus on: http://gapingvoid.com/2011/08/19/its-not-my-content/