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Redefining Public Relations in Our Digital World
Posted by Marti Weston on November 26, 2011
Check out this article about social media at Wikipedia.
If you wonder about the still-new world of social media, and are continually amazed when a few comments on a social media site affect prompt change (whether it’s a political movement, corporate policy, or an unsatisfied customer quieted down) this New York Times article, Redefining Public Relations in the Age of Social Media, provides helpful background. The article, by Stuart Elliott, describes the evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the digital public relations world.
A Few Interesting Thoughts from the Article
- Internet and social media like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter are transforming the relation between those of us in the general public and the people communicating with us. It’s no longer top down communication. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in digital parenting, parents and technology, social media, social media friends, social networking | Tagged: digital parenting, public relations, redefining public realtions, Social media, Stuart Elliott, Wikipedia | 3 Comments »
Communicating on Social Media: As American as Apple Pie?
Posted by Marti Weston on November 17, 2011
Check out the full report at http://bit.ly/vNhmnw
The Pew Internet and American Life Project recently published new social media data, this time asking why American adults use social networks.
From my point of view, keeping in touch with people is a grand old American tradition, as traditional as apple pie. Over the years whether it’s over the backyard fence, via snail mail letter, postcard, telephone, or e-mail, Americans like to connect and communicate.
Interestingly, according to this new Pew data, adults become involved with social media — Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and others — because of the ease of keeping in touch. People use a social medium if it makes communicating with friends and family easy and fun.
Moreover, users like that social media now offers faster and faster ways to reconnect with the people from the past — something that was far more difficult in the “olden days.”
Posted in parents and technology, research on the web, social media, social media friends, social networking | Tagged: adults, Americans, communicating, Pew Internet, Social media, social networking | 1 Comment »
ComScore Compares Social Media Sites: Summer Changes!
Posted by Marti Weston on July 22, 2011
This graph, comparing various social networking sites, is posted at the ComScore Data Mine site. Watching all of these social media sites evolve is fascinating.
Digital age parents need to stay informed about the constantly changing landscape. More importantly, parents need to choose a social networking site, cautiously join in, and learn more about the digital “lay of the land” that their children and adolescents take for granted.
Notice that Linked-In is now number two, and that Tumblr, a blog site with similarities to Twitter, is growing fast. It will be interesting to see what happens with Google+ the next time ComScore mines the data. Watch for an upcoming MediaTechParenting post that provides lots of links to enable easy access reading about Google+.
Posted in digital citizenship, digital parenting, online security, parent education, service-learning, social media friends | Tagged: ComScore Data Mine, Linked-In, Social media, social networking, tumblr | Leave a Comment »
Kids, Tech, Social Media, and Grandparents!
Posted by Marti Weston on May 10, 2011
Read about my daughter and her grandmother on Facebook.
Great article in the Wall Street Journal about kids and grandparents and the ways they are communicating with one another. In her May 9, 2001 article, OMG! My Grandparents R My BFF!, reporter Molly Baker takes readers on a “magical mystery tour” highlighting the ways generations are interacting (and sometimes leaving out the generation in the middle). You can also read Jamie Carracher’s thoughts on the article over at his Aging Online blog.
Last August I wrote about this digital family experience in a post, Yes! Grandma is on Facebook, on my other blog, As Our Parents Age. Below is an excerpt of a post about my daughter and her grandmother.
Join Facebook? For three years I avoided the site. I knew that some of my friends from work, church, and other activities were joining, but I just did not feel like it was a fit. My daughter, then in graduate school, used the social networking site, and she occasionally suggested I get started with Facebook. Still I refrained.
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Our Social Media Friends — A Few Interesting Facts
Posted by Marti Weston on March 24, 2011
In a social media situation many parents and teens do not understand the difference between friend and friends of friends. Is the friend of a best pal at camp be OK to accept? What about the older sister of someone from an extracurricular activity such as soccer or dance class?
Read Would You ‘Friend’ a Total Stranger by Bob Sullivan over at the MSNBC Red Tape Chronicles blog. The article discusses how males and females view the friending process differently and describes problems that can occur, especially the potential for stealing personal information, when we accept strangers as friends. The post also includes a link to a Mashable post, Facebook Privacy: 10 Settings Every User Needs to Know.
Another good source that explains more about social networking and the friending process is a post over at The Digital Marketer blog, Real Friends Verses Social Media Friends.
Posted in online security, parents and technology, risky behavior, social media friends | Tagged: Bob sullivan, Facebook, friending, friends, MSNBC, Red Tape Chronicles, Social media | Leave a Comment »
