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Over 600 pictures are uploaded to Flickr and 600 videos to YouTube every 60 seconds, while nearly 700,000 status updates and comments are posted to Facebook. Social networks allow people to connect with contacts, debate issues, mobilize around causes, and create groups for various purposes like entertainment. The document discusses creating your own news platforms through blogs, Storify, and other tools and how social media can be used to live tweet, curate news stories, and connect with contacts on Twitter.
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- 1. Social Media is fast, but Social Change is slow Ngeth Moses
- 2. What happens on the Internet every 60 Seconds • 6,600+ pictures are uploaded to Flickr • 600 videos are uploaded to YouTube • 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on social networking site Facebook • 168,000,000+ emails are sent, • 98,000 tweets are generated on Twitter • 20,00 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform • 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by skype users • 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora
- 3. Why Social Network(s)? • Everybody’s e-contact(s) • Debating • Mobilization • Groups (both personal and public) • Entertain and fun
- 4. Creating you own news platform(s) • The Moses Daily • My Storify • My blogs – Posterous • My Hoot suite
- 5. Something I’ve found interesting • Live Tweet • I make my own news (Storify link to Posterous) • My best friends Apps • Twitter contact