101 Social Media Stats to Make Your Spirits Bright and Your Head Spin Finding the right needle in the haystack that is the Internet is often times an exercise in futility and frustration. Sure, you can find “quick tips” for just about anything, a “how-to” guide for maximizing anything you’d like to maximize, and “case studies” that illustrate someone else’s success story which you believe – for a fleeting moment – you can just as easily apply to your own situation. Most often the tips are oversimplified, the how-to guides leave much to be desired, and the case studies seem to more like exceptions than they are rules. What you really need, at the beginning, middle, and end of the day, is the truth. Or something that is almost close enough to the truth: like social media statistics. I Wanna Know Where the Stats At As you probably know, 108% of statistics are exaggerations, so be careful what you glean from this. That said, here is my collection of social media statistics I’ve cobbled together over the past year. Social Media in the Daily Life of Web Users
Beyoncé: being photographed in your underwear doesn't help feminism | Hadley Freeman Next month marks the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's hugely influential study that helped to spark that pervasive second wave of feminism that – for all its faults and stuttering incompleteness – shaped the western world as most of us know it today. As a book it was – as Friedan was herself – a flawed advocate of women's rights: Friedan had little apparent interest in women who were anything other than white and upper middle-class. Her homophobia became an embarrassment to the women's movement. Her egotistical paranoia about being ousted as the face of the women's movement was captured with wince-inducing brilliance by Nora Ephron in her 1972 essay, Miami. The feminist movement never did and never will run smoothly. And so, 50 years on from Friedan, it pleases me to announce that we have a new face to the modern-day feminist movement. Last week the new issue of American GQ came out and it neatly encapsulated where western feminism is today.
The business of advertising Oct 20, 2004, 12.29am IST Newbies in any profession generally either have an excessively rosy or a terribly grim picture of how life in it is going to be. Advertising is no exception and is still, to the amusement of many of the insiders, perceived to be a glamorous profession. It isn't, the agency heads assure us, even as they zip around in their Mercedez Benz convertibles and SUVs. Says Nirvik Singh, chairman Grey South Asia: "The most common misconception is you will get to meet a model on the first day," adding with a touch of regret, "Some of us have spent 20 years in the business and are yet to meet a single model. It's not a glamorous business and requires very long hours and a lot of hard work." He says, "People don't appreciate that the quality of the ad depends on the planning and the brief." Tall tale traces Another myth particularly common among young creatives is that the business is all about TV scripts.
3 | In China, New Sustainable Cities Are Rising From Nothing In 1902, a self-taught urban planner named Ebenezer Howard published his utopian vision for "Garden Cities"--self-contained circular towns radiating from a central city, connected only by train. Neither town nor country, they were a dense, compact fusion of the two: suburbia without sprawl. Although Garden Cities never really caught on in the West, the Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has resurrected the idea with Chinese characteristics: a “prototype city” twice as populous and 20 times as dense, with a tower taller than the Empire State Building at its core. Working with one of China’s largest real estate developers, the firm aims to build them by the score. The first is slated for a patch of farmland roughly 10 miles from the core of Chengdu, China’s westernmost mega-city. To achieve that level of density--which is comparable to the Chicago Loop--“the average height of the buildings would have to be 18 stories,” says Adrian Smith.
From Facebook to Twitter: Save Your Community From Redundancy Caroline Chen | March 10, 2011 | 8 Comments inShare107 By understanding the nuances of each platform's digital culture, you can create unique and relevant content, speak the right language, and effectively grow both communities. Of all the social platforms, it's hard to avoid your favorite brand on Twitter or Facebook. I can't be alone in thinking there's not only a glut of information, but also brand redundancy that still exists across Twitter and Facebook. If Twitter remains your bite-sized Facebook RSS feed, you've only built a crutch for readership rather than a community. Consider these three areas of differentiation when managing your brand's presence in both environments: Customer interactions. Content. Capacity. Playing to each platform's cultural norms and technical strengths will not only help you stay relevant, but also help you stay sane.
Gender role Gender roles may be a means through which one may express their gender identity, but they may also be employed as a means of exerting social control, and individuals may experience negative social consequences for violating them.[2] Various groups have led efforts to change aspects of prevailing gender roles that they believe are oppressive or inaccurate, most notably the feminist movement. The term was first coined by John Money in 1955 during the course of his study of intersex individuals to describe the manners in which these individuals express their status as a male or female, in a situation where no clear biological assignment exists.[3] Background[edit] Some systems of classification, unlike the WHO, are non-binary or gender queer, listing multiple possible genders including transgender and intersex as distinct categories.[10][11] Gender roles are culturally specific, and while most cultures distinguish only two (boy and girl or man and woman), others recognize more. Dr. Islam Dr.
Susan Herbst: What Do Professors Do, Anyway? On March 23, the Washington Post ran an op-ed by David Levy, a former chancellor at the New School University, asking: "Do college professors work hard enough?" He suggests that faculty at non-research institutions don't put in enough hours for the pay they receive. Not surprisingly, this created a small firestorm among faculty nationwide who weren't shy about telling him what they thought. I have held faculty and administrative positions only at research institutions -- where the mission is both teaching and research -- so I wouldn't presume to speak for faculty at schools focused exclusively on teaching. Yet there are some across-the-board myths about academic life in general, and professors sometimes seem to be a target. This likely has to do with the fact that unless someone has been a professor or graduate student or worked with them, they probably don't fully understand what professors do. So perhaps the best question isn't, "Do college professors work hard enough?"
5 Huge Trends in Social Media Right Now What's the first thing young women do when they wake up? Check Facebook. How do enterprise employees pass the time at work? With social media. With so many studies highlighting ever-accelerating social media usage rates, the conclusion is obvious — social media is everywhere. What follows are five of the hottest social media trends right now. Entertainment checkin services are changing the way we watch television. 1. Smartphone owners have the world at their fingertips. What this means is that at any given moment, any smartphone owner can pull out their device, fire up a barcode scanning application, scan a code and complete activities or gain access to a wealth of immediately relevant information. The consumer's scanning behavior is so significant that location-sharing checkin services such as SCVNGR are giving away QR code decals to retailers free of charge. As scanning becomes a more socially acceptable practice, the barcode scan will only become more social in nature. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Boekverslag: De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek | Educatie en School: Samenvattingen Titel: De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek Auteur: Tessa de Loo Eerste druk: november 1983 Gelezen uitgave: twaalfde druk, maart 1985 Uitgeverij: De Arbeidspers, Amsterdam Aantal bladzijden: 194 bladzijden Boekbeschrijving Tessa de Loo, De meisjes van de suiketwerkfabriek; verhalen. 11e dr. De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, november .1984. Bespreking Muziekles (blz. 7-27) Johan en Lisa wonen in een eenvormige nieuwbouwwijk. Personages Johan is een man tussen de 30 en de 40 jaar oud. Tijd De vertelde tijd beslaat een paar weken, het verhaal wordt niet chronologisch verteld. Ruimte Het verhaal speelt zich af in een huis in een eenvoudige nieuwbouwwijk. Perspectief Er is een auctoriale verteller in dit verhaal; je leest de gedachten en gevoelens van alle drie de hoofdpersonen. Thema Het thema van dit verhaal is “het laten gaan van dromen en verlangens uit je jeugd”. Motieven De vrouwen klagen in de coupé wel hun nood bij elkaar, maar gelaten accepteren zij de wereld zoals die is. Motieven
Anne Loyd: Feminism is Dead, Long Live Femininity I don't want to be labelled a feminist because deep down I believe it's out dated, aggressive and all about "the fight" - the fight for equal rights, the fight for the vote, the fight for freedom. I acknowledge all the work done by our predecessors and for what they have achieved. I am of course, thankful. I am now one of many women who have their own business, can vote and freely express an opinion. Historically there was a lot to fight for, by why now in 2012 do women in the West still feel the need to fight for the things we want? You only need to look to countries like Africa or Afghanistan where women have to fight. I don't want to be labelled a feminist because I simply don't want to be labelled and I don't believe that the label of feminism is the best way for the next phase of the development of women in western society. Netmums recently released a survey of 1,300 women, which asked what feminism means to the modern woman.
tijdschrift LOVER - feministische journalistiek - Marjolijn Februari feliciteert LOVER Deze maand bestaat LOVER 35 jaar. En daar zijn we reuzetrots op. Begonnen in 1973 als een gestencilde bijlage bij de nieuwsbrief van ManVrouwMaatschappij, heeft LOVER zich steeds opnieuw weten uit te vinden als het lijfblad van feministisch denkend Nederland. Marjolijn Februari (filosoof en onder meer columnist voor de Volkskrant): ’Gefeliciteerd met jullie jubileum.
Nu snap ik die columns van Februari pas Uit mijzelf zou ik er nooit over zijn begonnen, als Marjolijn Februari niet alom ruchtbaarheid had gegeven aan haar transformatie tot Maxim Februari. Ik las ergens dat hij voluit Maximiliaan heet. Dat hebben zelfs mijn ouders niet gedurfd, maar wie eenmaal van vrouw tot man wordt, wil het kennelijk groots aanpakken. Dit stukje schrijf ik vooral ook uit verwondering. Al jaren probeer ik de columns te lezen van degene die met Marjolijn Februari ondertekende. Bij die stukjes was vaak iets vreemds aan de hand: de meeste begreep ik niet. In zo’n geval denk je in de eerste plaats dat dit onbegrip aan jezelf ligt. Toen Februari naar NRC Handelsblad ging, schreef Sjoerd de Jong juichend dat er een enorme vis was binnengehaald. En toen kwam de onthulling over haar seksuele transformatie. Er omheen schrijven, cruciale en oprechte woorden. In zekere zin is alle literatuur niets anders dan ‘er omheen schrijven’, maar in dit geval zou dat wel een heel gemakkelijke dooddoener zijn.
Interview met Tessa de Loo | Eci.nl weblog In 1984 was je een Schrijver van Nu met de titel De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek. Betekende dit een doorbraak in je schrijversbestaan? Ja, het betekende dat ik de sprong kon wagen en het schrijven, tot dan toe een sporadische speelse bezigheid, als beroep kon uitoefenen – een beslissing die mijn leven ingrijpend veranderde. Wat is de beste debuutroman die jij ooit gelezen hebt? ‘Alles is verlicht’ van Jonathan Safran Foer was een van de beste debuutromans die me op dit moment te binnen schiet. Hoe bedenk je een verhaal zoals Ode aan mijn hond, of zoals je laatste boek Harlekino (zie pag. 49)? Bij ‘Ode aan mijn hond’ was dat heel eenvoudig: mijn hond was enkele maanden daarvoor overleden en ik kon eenvoudig nergens anders over schrijven. ‘Harlekino’ sproot voort uit verschillende ideeën. Hoe gaat dat schrijfproces bij jou in zijn werk? Het begint met een periode, waarin de ideëen broeien en onduidelijke relaties met elkaar aangaan. Wat vind je van het concept Schrijvers van Naam?
Why I loathe feminism ... and believe it will ultimately destroy the family By Erin Pizzey Updated: 11:52 GMT, 24 September 2009 ERIN PIZZEY set up the world's first refuge for battered women in 1971 - and went on to establish an international movement for victims of domestic violence. But what she has never made public before is that her own childhood was scarred by the shocking cruelty of both her parents. Here, for the first time, she tells the full harrowing story - and how it led her to a surprising, but deeply felt, conclusion ... Tortured childhood: Erin Pizzey was abused by both her mother and father Though I remember little of my earliest years, I grew up in a world of extraordinary violence. My father was ordered to Beirut by the diplomatic service, and we were left as refugees in Kokstad, South Africa. Indeed, my mother's explosive temper and abusive behaviour shaped the person I later became like no other event in my life. Thirty years later, when feminism exploded onto the scene, I was often mistaken for a supporter of the movement.