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Media Mention
Jemima Kiss, The Guardian
Dec 9, 2010
The Pew research centre's latest report is on the use of Twitter and reveals some interesting trends, not least how mainstream the social messaging site (let's forget that 'microblogging' nonsense) has become. Twitter is now used by 6% of the entire ...
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Media Mention
Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times
Dec 9, 2010
About 8% of American adults who use the Internet are Twitter users, with 2% using it on a typical day.
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Notable among Pew's findings: Young adults ages 18 to 29 are significantly more likely to use Twitter than older adults. African Americ...
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Media Mention
Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine
Dec 9, 2010
Twitter is a pretty pervasive tool among those in the tech community, but how many average Internet users have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon? A Thursday study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 8 percent of American adults on ...
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Presentation
Nov 12, 2010Susannah Fox
HealthCampDC is the latest in the HealthCamp un-conference series addressing the transformation of health care to a participatory model with active patient engagement through the use of social networking sites, open standards and web 2.0.
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More in: Health, Web 2.0
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Media Mention
Here and Now, WBUR's Here and Now
Nov 8, 2010
When you get sick, is your first stop Google or WebMD? According to a survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, 61 percent of Americans turn to the web for online medical advice and information. And 20 percent of America...
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More in: Health, Web 2.0
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Report
Nov 4, 2010Kathryn Zickuhr, Aaron Smith
4% of online adults use a location-based service such as Foursquare or Gowalla that allows them to share their location with friends and to find others who are nearby.
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More in: Mobile, Social Networking, Web 2.0
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Media Mention
Jake Coyle, Associated Press
Nov 3, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - In the final minutes of one of the most watched and fiercely contested races of Tuesday's midterm elections, the campaigns of both Sen. Harry Reid and the Republican challenger to his Nevada Senate seat, Sharron Angle, were working so...
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Commentary
Sep 13, 2010Susannah Fox
What will happen when the untapped knowledge of every patient, of every caregiver, of everyone who has something of value to share actually has the opportunity to share it?
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More in: Health, Mobile, Digital Divide, Web 2.0, Social Networking
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Presentation
Jun 27, 2010Mary Madden
This presentation highlights new research on teens, young adults and social media use while also identifying a new leading edge group that deserves the same attention: those who own four or more internet-connected devices.
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More in: Libraries, Social Networking, Teens, Cloud Computing, Mobile, Technology User Types, Web 2.0
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Presentation
Jun 25, 2010Kristen Purcell
Kristen Purcell will be speaking at the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) ALA pre-conference in Washington DC, as part of a panel entitled “Promoting Teen Reading with Web 2.0 Tools.”
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More in: Teens, Education, Web 2.0