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Forget demographics. It’s all about the socialgraphics By Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist Traditionally, marketers have researched their customers’ demographics to have a clear idea of their age, gender, income, location, and other traits. Marketers added psychographics to the mix, allowing them to take into account customer’s interests, values, and attitudes. A step up from the very general information that demographics provide, psychographics enable marketers to speak to customers in a way that resonates with them. Socialgraphics capture the attitudes, characteristics, behavior, and, most important, motivations of customers online. Socialgraphics helps move your message The new world of digital marketing requires the kind of research that user experience teams routinely do, but marketers have not always accessed. Demographics and pyschographics may have been enough when marketers were focused simply on online advertising — finding the right keywords to target an audience was enough. Levels of socialgraphics
10 Best URL Shorteners and why they are good URL shortening services are used by millions of people on daily basis as they a serve very important purposes in areas like social networking and internet marketing and are extremely useful in Internet conversations on services like twitter when someone want to share a link. With only 140 characters available to deliver the message a normal link can take up most of the space. Besides shrinking URLs some of the services provide features that can be more useful than you may think. If you are not aware of the possibilities keep reading. Advertisement What is a URL shortener A URL shortener is an online application that allows the user to enter a full URL for any specific web page, click on a button, and automatically shortens a long wordy URL to a short domain name and uses a 5 or 6 character code. Where URL Shorteners are useful First, it’s very useful for micro bloggers, such as Twitter users, who like to share URLs in their posts. List of useful URL Shorteners to try out 1.
“We’re Not in Kansas (nor Cambridge) Anymore” - Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Lisa M. Hess, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, United Theological Seminary Arriving onto the campus of my first fulltime teaching job in higher education was not unlike finding myself in a strange land with a little dog under my arm. “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” I remember saying aloud, wondering what I had done in accepting this new job I thought I wanted. I was disoriented, to say the least. I’d never expected to land a teaching job—too competitive, options quite scarce, two-career family. Without proceeding to the bemusing images here—the Yellow Brick Road, flying monkeys, the Wicked Witch, or the Wizard—you should know I now spend time regularly between Oz and Kansas. Yes, the realities of teaching are nothing you could have known, nothing you thought you were choosing. The invitation I wish I had known was coming, if you asked me today?
Why Teachers Should Join Twitter…What I have Learned as a Twitter Newbie Adaptivelearnin Profile Okay, I admit that I rebelled against joining Twitter for the longest time. I had friends and family members urging me to join. I often said, “Why should I join another social networking site? I have not used MySpace for a while and am quite happy with Facebook.” Those who were part of the Twitter community kept insisting that I join because in their words it was better than Facebook. Several months ago I finally decided to give Twitter a try. Watch this news video on using Twitter in education and in the classroom…explains Twitter’s professional use in a simple way: To learn more about developing your PLN check out this SlideShare presentation by Bethany Smith: Via SlideShare from Bethany Smith: Creating an Online Personal Learning Network To learn how to set up your new Twitter account and learn how to use Twitter, watch this Youtube video: To learn how to send Tweets, Retweets, Direct Messages, and add Lists watch this Youtube video: Using Twitter as a teacher:
The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Pinterest for Marketing Over the past few months, you may have heard some chatter about a brand new social network called Pinterest. Not surprising. According to Compete, unique visitors to Pinterest.com increased by 429% from September to December 2011, and the social network already boasts a user base of 3.3 million. The short answer? What is Pinterest, and How Does it Work? Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, curate, and discover new interests by posting (AKA 'pinning') images or videos to their own or others' pinboards (i.e. a collection of 'pins,' usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned. As with most other social networks, users can perform standard social networking functions such as following the boards of their friends, liking and commenting on other users' pins, re-pinning content to their own boards, sharing others' pins on Facebook and Twitter or via email, and even embedding individual pins on their website or blog. Pinterest Etiquette 1.
Twitter for Teachers Loading... If you only have five minutes to spare, this is the one to watch. Educator Marc-André Lalande (@malalande) makes the case for Twitter in education, while keeping it light and fun. I highly recommend it, and not just because @Edutopia is mentioned ;-) by Marc-André Lalande 5,782 views I'm a big fan of CommonCraft's paper-cut animation explainer videos, which make complex topics understandable. by leelefever 158,217 views Coming up with good and useful tweets can be intimidating for beginners. Hashtags are a critical part of utilizing Twitter well. by Alicia Discepola 401 views Let's say you're already a believer and you use Twitter with your students, but you want to explore additional tools. by EmergingEdTech 1,081 views A social studies teacher from Wisconsin describes how he has re-invigorated his passion for knowledge by using Twitter to grow his personal learning network, or PLN. by WaukeshaSchoolsWI 187 views by Chris Haskell 5,385 views by Rey Junco 36,148 views