1. The document discusses how youth and social media use has changed as technology has advanced, with todays youth growing up digital natives who are more connected and engaged with technology than previous generations.
2. It notes many ways technology and social media have become integrated into youth lives, such as increased time spent online, using social networks like Facebook and Twitter, engaging with videos and cell phones.
3. The document provides advice for parents on how to navigate their children's technology and social media use, such as staying informed on current platforms but not overusing social media just for their kids or reconfiguring established norms of engagement.
Social Media for Youth Leaders, May 2014, for @c_of_eBex Lewis
A new course for youth leaders who want to learn about how social media can be used positively.
As a youth leader, you may feel the responsibility for helping keep the children that you work with stay safe online, but also want to know how they - and you - can use it to its full advantage. In this day course, developed from Raising Children in a Digital Age (Lion Hudson, 2014), internet scare stories and distorted statistics are put into context, and clear and sensible guidelines are offered. You’ll have the opportunity to discuss your hopes, fears and experiences with others in a similar situation, and study examples of how others have used social media successfully with youth. We’ll discuss understanding privacy, permanency, identity, values and relationships in a digital age (including cyber-bullying)
http://www.churchcommstraining.org/smtyouthleaders.php
There are positive and negative effects of internet on children and kids of these era. The discussion is about the internet and it's effects on kids. Tips for parents are also discussed for the solution.
Computer ethics is a part of practical philosophy which concerns with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct.
A presentation designed for Year 8 and 9 students. Updated with two additional slides for parents. Feel free to download and adapt this presentation for your own purposes.
My presentation from the ACEC Conference in Adelaide on October 1 2014. The Australian Computers in Education Council ... a great venue for me to showcase my use of social media in class. Not teaching with social media is like NOT teaching Maths.
What Do You Need To Know For Marketing To Digital, Mobile And Social Teens?Dr. William J. Ward
What Do You Need To Know For Marketing To Digital, Mobile And Social Teens?
- The digital landscape from a teen's perspective
- Social media facts and figures related to teen media usage
- Five tips to sparking valuable conversations through engaging content
Social Media for Youth Leaders, May 2014, for @c_of_eBex Lewis
A new course for youth leaders who want to learn about how social media can be used positively.
As a youth leader, you may feel the responsibility for helping keep the children that you work with stay safe online, but also want to know how they - and you - can use it to its full advantage. In this day course, developed from Raising Children in a Digital Age (Lion Hudson, 2014), internet scare stories and distorted statistics are put into context, and clear and sensible guidelines are offered. You’ll have the opportunity to discuss your hopes, fears and experiences with others in a similar situation, and study examples of how others have used social media successfully with youth. We’ll discuss understanding privacy, permanency, identity, values and relationships in a digital age (including cyber-bullying)
http://www.churchcommstraining.org/smtyouthleaders.php
There are positive and negative effects of internet on children and kids of these era. The discussion is about the internet and it's effects on kids. Tips for parents are also discussed for the solution.
Computer ethics is a part of practical philosophy which concerns with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct.
A presentation designed for Year 8 and 9 students. Updated with two additional slides for parents. Feel free to download and adapt this presentation for your own purposes.
My presentation from the ACEC Conference in Adelaide on October 1 2014. The Australian Computers in Education Council ... a great venue for me to showcase my use of social media in class. Not teaching with social media is like NOT teaching Maths.
What Do You Need To Know For Marketing To Digital, Mobile And Social Teens?Dr. William J. Ward
What Do You Need To Know For Marketing To Digital, Mobile And Social Teens?
- The digital landscape from a teen's perspective
- Social media facts and figures related to teen media usage
- Five tips to sparking valuable conversations through engaging content
Communicating in the digital age - a guide for educatorsHelen Dixon
A guide for educators which highlights the importance of awareness about social media issues in order to advise and guide young people in the digital age.
Raising Children in a Digital Age for Foundation Business Degree @MMUBSBex Lewis
Looking at 'Raising Children in a Digital Age' as useful information for Foundation Business Students at MMU - helping them look at responsibilities, the culture they're engaging with - especially if creating content online to create a safer online environment
Engaging Digital Natives - Their devices, their world, their content - by Sch...Ellen Richards
Owners of Australia's fast growing K-12 online learning environment Schoolbox, James and Sean help independent schools in Australia and New Zealand transform their teaching, learning and online communication.
Today’s youth live in a digital world surrounded by devices, technology, online communities and are socially engaged though the web.
The emergence of these digital natives is forcing traditional teaching methods/technology to move so rapidly, educators can be confused by how best to leverage digital learning to deliver an engaging learning experience through technology.
James and Sean introduce how digital natives learn, how BYOD can work and how to style teaching and use technology in the classroom to fit with the mobile, social and and online world our students live in.
The talk reviews the basic findings of the Privacy report. Amanda focused particularly on data on parent and teen attitudes towards and experiences with online advertising, and third party access to a teen’s personal information posted online.
In this modern world, life without internet is not possible. So is it really that important that we cannot survive without a moment with it? And what are its effect?
At the 29th Annual ACT Enrollment Planners Conference, Director Lee Rainie will highlight 13 things everyone should know about how today's teens use technology. With data from the Pew Research Internet Project's national surveys of teens and parents, Lee will highlight some critical ways digital tools are changing not only how teens communicate, but also how they gather information about the world and present themselves to others.
Lowell, WA-Hoyt, and other North Tacoma schools were invited to participate in a parent workshop on Digital Citizenship. Links in slides are to resources shared.
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, discussed the project’s research about younger Americans and how libraries fit into their lives. He discussed seven key insights from the research about the special world of teens and young adults, and how they differ from older Americans.
Communicating in the digital age - a guide for educatorsHelen Dixon
A guide for educators which highlights the importance of awareness about social media issues in order to advise and guide young people in the digital age.
Raising Children in a Digital Age for Foundation Business Degree @MMUBSBex Lewis
Looking at 'Raising Children in a Digital Age' as useful information for Foundation Business Students at MMU - helping them look at responsibilities, the culture they're engaging with - especially if creating content online to create a safer online environment
Engaging Digital Natives - Their devices, their world, their content - by Sch...Ellen Richards
Owners of Australia's fast growing K-12 online learning environment Schoolbox, James and Sean help independent schools in Australia and New Zealand transform their teaching, learning and online communication.
Today’s youth live in a digital world surrounded by devices, technology, online communities and are socially engaged though the web.
The emergence of these digital natives is forcing traditional teaching methods/technology to move so rapidly, educators can be confused by how best to leverage digital learning to deliver an engaging learning experience through technology.
James and Sean introduce how digital natives learn, how BYOD can work and how to style teaching and use technology in the classroom to fit with the mobile, social and and online world our students live in.
The talk reviews the basic findings of the Privacy report. Amanda focused particularly on data on parent and teen attitudes towards and experiences with online advertising, and third party access to a teen’s personal information posted online.
In this modern world, life without internet is not possible. So is it really that important that we cannot survive without a moment with it? And what are its effect?
At the 29th Annual ACT Enrollment Planners Conference, Director Lee Rainie will highlight 13 things everyone should know about how today's teens use technology. With data from the Pew Research Internet Project's national surveys of teens and parents, Lee will highlight some critical ways digital tools are changing not only how teens communicate, but also how they gather information about the world and present themselves to others.
Lowell, WA-Hoyt, and other North Tacoma schools were invited to participate in a parent workshop on Digital Citizenship. Links in slides are to resources shared.
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, discussed the project’s research about younger Americans and how libraries fit into their lives. He discussed seven key insights from the research about the special world of teens and young adults, and how they differ from older Americans.
We often have assumptions about how teens and tweens use the Internet. But, are those assumptions true? What kind(s) of social media should your library have? Learn the answers to these questions and many more, as well as discovering if your library can effectively engage (or not) with young people in social media.
We often have assumptions about how teens and tweens use the Internet. But, are those assumptions true? What kind(s) of social media should your library have? Learn the answers to these questions and many more, as well as discovering if your library can effectively engage (or not) with young people in social media.
1) How to Fail at Social Media
a) How to fail when you’re just starting out
b) How to fail while doing social media
c) How to fail when responding in social media
d) Summary & questions
***BREAK***
2) Fine-Tuning Facebook
a) Why Facebook matters to libraries
b) Profiles versus pages
c) Facebook profile tweaks
d) Facebook features
e) Facebook Timeline and options
f) Facebook strategies that work
g) Facebook strategies that don’t work
h) Working with Facebook Insights
i) Examples of the good, the bad and the ugly
j) Summary & questions
***BREAK***
3) Tweaking Twitter
a) Twitter stats you actually should know
b) Things to stop doing on Twitter
c) Ways to do Twitter right
d) Tweet makeovers
e) Summary & questions
***BREAK***
4) Putting It All Together
a) Social media myths
b) Social capital
c) Measuring stuff
d) Interactive: rewriting of Tweets
e) Summary & questions
Death by Presentation: Don't murder your audience!Laura Solomon
You’ve been asked (or maybe you actually volunteered) to do a presentation. Now what? You’ve survived your own share of horrendous presentations, and you don’t want to inflict one on anyone else. How do you prepare? How do you keep people interested so they don’t spend the whole time on Facebook? How can you make a Powerpoint that actually helps and doesn't just contain a bunch of bullet points? The questions can be overwhelming and the challenges numerous. Find out what works and what doesn’t, and how to keep your audience engaged. Learn how to avoid the common mistakes that newbie presenters make while discovering what it takes to get asked to do it again–you can make your first (or next) presentation ROCK!
Get Over Yourself! Improving Your Library’s Online PresenceLaura Solomon
Libraries exist in multiple places these days – not just through their websites, but in social media as well. What are the most common mistakes libraries make online?
How can you make your library stand out without violating online community standards? Learn to re-think how your library presents itself to the world online.
Your library may have spent a lot of money or time on online marketing or social media outreach, only to have its reputation severely damaged by one angry blogger. How can you track this kind of activity and mitigate negative commentary? Learn what tools are available to help monitor your library’s precious online reputation and some strategies to protect your library’s brand.
People are talking about you…but do you know what they’re saying?Laura Solomon
Your library may have spent a lot of money or time on online marketing or social media outreach, only to have its reputation severely damaged by one angry blogger. How can you track this kind of activity and mitigate negative commentary? Learn what tools are available to help monitor your library’s precious online reputation and some strategies to protect your library’s brand.
At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:
Be able to identify at least two reasons why ORM (online reputation management) matters for a library
Be able to identify at least 3 tools that can be used for ORM
Be familiar with strategies for dealing with negative content
Put Down the Bullhorn: Promoting Your Library OnlineLaura Solomon
When it comes to promoting your library online, things can get pretty complex, fast. What are the best methods for a library to use? How do Google AdWords and Facebook ads work? How does social media fit into library promotion? Are there even good reasons for a library to use online promotion? Learn how to re-think how your library operates online and choose promotion methods with best practices in mind.
Ever get the feeling that nobody is reading your library’s website? Trust your gut on this one; unfortunately, this is the case for much of the content posted on library sites. Learn how to make your content not only attractive, but also palatable to today’s online reader. Some simple guidelines will make all the difference.
Libraries exist in multiple places these days - not just through their websites, but in social media as well. What are the most common mistakes libraries make online? How can you make your library stand out without violating online community standards? Learn to re-think how your library presents itself to the world online.
Sure, it’s incredibly simple to set up a Facebook page for your library. But, then what? How can you really make it useful to visitors? Learn the do’s and don’ts of managing a Facebook page and what you can do to attract more fans. Get the lowdown on using Facebook Insights, the analytics feature. See real examples of libraries that showcase the good, the bad and the ugly. Get ready to make your library’s Facebook presence a whole lot better.
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With the continuing proliferation of smartphones and devices such as the iPad, there now exists a completely new culture of communication. Mobile media is unknown territory for many of us and our patrons are already there. Libraries are faced with new challenges and new questions. What makes your website mobile friendly? How can your library begin to serve the mobileuser? What are other libraries providing mobile services
(or, are they)? Where should your library start? Get the information you need to start answering these questions and more.
Lots of experts will tell you how to succeed at social media, but very few willl lay out a clear path to failure. Learn what the most common points of failure are for public libraries, and why libraries often aren’t getting what they want out of this new medium. Laura Solomon is the author of two forthcoming books on social media in libraries, and she has seen many libraries enter social media waters with no idea how to steer. Find out ifyour library is on its way to a social shipwreck and how you might be able to change course.
20 Things You Can Do to Make Your Library's Website Better Right NowLaura Solomon
Let’s face it--we can’t always overhaul our library’s entire website. Sometimes,we just need ways to improve on what we have, due to cost, expertise or political barriers. There are lots of things you can do with very little to improve yourl ibrary’s site. Some are small, some are bigger, but all can make your site better for your visitors. Get some quick and practical ideas about potential ways to polish your site without busting your library’s budget or eating up tons of staff time.
(Computers in Libraries 2011) Let’s face it — we can’t always overhaul our library’s entire website. Sometimes, we just need ways to improve on what we have, due to cost, expertise, or political barriers. There are lots of things you can do with very little to improve your library’s site. Solomon provides some quick and practical ideas about potential ways to polish your site without busting your library’s budget or eating up tons of staff time.
Ready to tune up your library’s social media presence? The world of social media changes fast, and things change all of the time. What should libraries expect in the not-too-distant future? Learn what’s trending in online social networks and see both good and bad examples of how some libraries are handling social media.
Why Patrons Hate Your Library's WebsiteLaura Solomon
We may love our websites, but chances are good that your
patrons...well, not so much. Libraries are often guilty of
common website problems that can annoy visitors. From design errors to usability issues, find out what may be driving
your patrons crazy and why.
This past summer, the incredible power of social media was demonstrated across Ohio during the Save Ohio Libraries campaign. Do you understand why your library needs to be involved in social media? Even if you do, do you understand how to build social capital? It takes work and expertise to use this medium successfully. Learn the nitty-gritty of doing social media effectively.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a button
Youth And Social Media: It's All About Them
1. Youth & Social Media It’s All About Them Laura Solomon , MCIW, MLS Library Services Manager Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) [email_address] .
40. “Don’t reconfigure the playbook” Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avinashkunnath/3080013614/
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Editor's Notes
Canadian artist Melanie Coles built a large image of the iconic "Waldo" onto a rooftop at an undisclosed location in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The image was intended to be later searched out through interactive mapping applications like Google Earth and Google Maps. Our whole perspective has changed! Just 5 years ago this would have been a crazy thing, but now businesses do it all the time. Let’s take a look at other ways our perpective has changed or is changing, as far as technology goes. This was illustrated by my co-worker’s daughter…” “Not a whole lot... her computer, her iPod, her cell phone, video games, that's it pretty much.”
GeekDad 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About By Nathan Barry http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/
Perhaps no other group is as entrenched in that technology as teens, who were just being born when that first Web browser came to be and were in first grade when the first Palm Pilot went on the market.
I talk about changing our perspective; technology is not just about accessing music, games, entertainment or information any more. It’s about connecting to each other. This stuff used to be called Web 2.0, now called social media “ Social networking penetration with teens close to 100%” Ad Age 2007
First gen Internet parents/teachers/librarians We’re in new territory and aren’t sure what to do. And it doesn’t help that this stuff changes every second!
Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D Author of Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation “ Parents have a total misconception about what their kids are doing online.” “ They don't know how much time they're spending. They don't have the breadth of what's happening to the kids online. They think the kids are being attacked by predators all the time. They are way over-concerned about the technology that the kids are using.”
“Parents are in the dark when it comes to knowing what their kids are doing online. They don’t have a clue how much time their kids are spending online,” said Marian Merritt, internet safety advocate for Symantec. Though US adults estimate that 6% of their children have been approached online by a stranger, 16% of US children report being approached. About four in 10 (42%) US teens age 13-17 say they have received an online request for personal information. "We tend to forget that it offers our children a source of independence, a way to explore the world, and helps them meet friends whom they could not meet in their real world. As parents, we need to help them explore the positive opportunities the Internet offers them, and to reduce the risks."
“Everything is so different from year to year. No wonder the parents are afraid.” (Dr. Rosen)
"In May 2009, children aged 2-11 comprised nearly 16 million, or 9.5 percent, of the active online universe according to Nielsen Online. Since 2004, the number of kids online has increased 18 percent, as compared to 10 percent for the total active universe, with a fairly even split between boys and girls. The growth of children online outpaces the overall growth of children in the U.S., where kids under 14 are projected to decrease by 1 percent from 2004 to 2010 (according to the U.S. Census Bureau, from 7/04 - 7/10 projection)."
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/growing-up-and-growing-fast-kids-2-11-spending-more-time-online/ Time spent online among children aged 2-11 increased 63 percent in the last five years, from nearly 7 hours in May 2004 to more than 11 hours online in May 2009. Time spent among kids outpaced the increase for the overall population, which grew 36 percent in the last five years
Norton Online Living Report by Symantec . (2008) What’s more, 41% of respondents age 13-17 say their parents have no idea what they do online, and only 33% of parents worldwide say they set parental controls and monitor their children’s online activities. Statistically, lots of room for kids to get away with all kinds of things! Perhaps surprisingly though, this is not generally the case.
Norton Online Living Report About a third (35%) of US online children age 8-17 have made friends online. That percentage increases as kids get older: 50% of US teens age 13-17 report making online friends. Some 33% of kids 8-17 report that they prefer to spend at least as much time with their online friends as their offline friends.
Norton Online survey Shopping. About one in three US children (35%) report being “very confident” or “confident” in shopping online. That number is 69% among children in China.
More than three fourths (76%) of US teens age 13-17 “constantly,” “frequently” or “sometimes” visit social-networking sites. Worldwide, about half of boys (51%) and girls (48%) do so.
So what is your precious under 15 year old doing these days (80% of all registered users of virtual worlds are teenagers..). Habbo Hotel, the grand daddy of them all (and was a case study already inour book Communities Dominate Brands) is still the biggest, and now has 135 M users. Note that this is about 10% of all internet users. Are kids registered to play in the virtual playground of Habbo. Wow. But they are not alone, no way (way! no way! Whey! No Wh-hey!). Neopets (average age 11) has 54 M users (Gosh, thats the size of the total population of Italy). Stardoll (age 15) has 34 M. Club Penguin (age 12) has 28 M. Wee World (14) has 27 M. And so it goes, Girl Sense, Nicktropolis, Whyville, goSupermodel, Spineworld etc etc etc. Millions and millions. Kids. All under the age of 15. Meanwhile Second LIfe you ask? Is biggest adult aged virtual world, smaller than all those, at only 19M users.. http://www.daynuv.com/?p=95
It is widely believed that teenagers are spending more time with digital media, including text messaging, video sites like YouTube and newer socially driven sites like Facebook and Twitter. But Nielsen throws out that theory, finding instead that teenagers “watch more TV than ever, with usage up 6% over the past five years in the U.S,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. They may be watching more TV than ever, but American teens aren’t the world’s biggest couch potatoes, according to Nielsen; that title goes to South African and Indonesian teens. Television watching, a group activity, is also being replaced in large numbers with Internet browsing, according to Pew.
It’s true: the media universe is expanding for teens. Social networks play an increasingly important role and now many teens access the Web over their phones (37% in the U.S.)
If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth. ne quarter of US Internet users are under 25, Nielsen says, but only 16% of Twitter users lie in that age range. While Nielsen is only measuring people who visit Twitter.com (not desktop and mobile clients), the analytics firm additionally claims that over 90% of TweetDeck ( ) users are over 25, making it unlikely that there are masses of uncounted young people on third-party Twitter apps.
(about half of U.S. teens use Facebook) Twice the size of mySpace, and is now the 4 th most popular site in the US
(Talk about Bloom-Carroll and MySpace being most popular) But look at these stats…not that many kids!
Online video, meanwhile, has experienced “[t]orrid growth” among teenagers, Nielsen revealed, but the amount of online video teens watch still “lags behind” the amount that adults 18 to 44 watch. Teens watch less online video than most adults, but the ads are highly engaging to them: Teens spend 35% less time watching online video than adults 25–34, but recall ads better when watching TV shows online than they do on television
Rural high school Near Lancaster Median income is $35,509 91% own a cell phone 83% text Most important thing EVER Overwhelmingly, the over 100 students I talked to said that the cell phone was the most important technological development in their lifetime Followed by the iPod, then the Internet The cell phone has become a primary mode of socializing for teens and they will often avoid contact with peers that don't have cell phones, according to a study by Context. The Baltimore company uses anthropologists to study consumer trends.
teenagers were so immersed in the technology that they often saw little difference between meeting face to face and talking on the phone. In the study, teens who had no cell phones and whose numbers were not included in someone's phone book could pretty much write off the possibility of speaking with any of the teens with cell phones, a group Blinkoff refers to as "mobiles." "If you don't use the technology, you are not part of the class," he said. "If you are not a name or number on my phone book, then you are not on my radar screen."
Many teens have ZERO interest in interacting with teachers on social network sites, but there are also quite a few who are interested in interacting with SOME teachers there. Still, this is primarily a social space and their interactions with teachers are primarily to get more general advice and help. In some ways, its biggest asset in the classroom is the way in which its not a classroom tool and not loaded this way. Given that teens don't Friend all of their classmates, there are major issues in terms of using this for groupwork because of boundary issues. Depends on the teen, but many are happy to connect with adults who don't directly hold power over them or who they "trust" - aunts, older cousins, youth pastors, "cool" teachers, etc.
@lazygal: Do they really care about/use school library websites? Twitter? Pageflakes? Libguides? or only if teacher insists? Nope, they don't. All but Twitter are categorized as school tools and are only used when absolutely necessary and Google won't suffice.
DIFFERENCES IN WHAT WE PERCEIVE AND WHAT HAPPENS And they are not Internet addicts. On the contrary, teens are well below average in time spent on the Internet each month, according to the report. Teens spend “less than half of the 29 hours and 15 minutes” per month that the average user spends on the Internet, The Hollywood Reporter explained. Teens love the Internet…but spend far less time browsing than adults: Teens spend 11 hours and 32 minutes per month online—far below the average of 29 hours and 15 minutes.
Another scenario that many imagine is that teens like to consume more than one medium at a time, but Nielsen said this isn’t true, either. In fact, according to their report, this image is “grossly misrepresentative.” Teens are actually “more likely than adults to use their media one at a time.”
Teens time-shift video with DVRs and they place-shift on their video MP3 players. Yet teens are not unique in this media revolution. The media experience has evolved and cross-platform engagement will be critical to reaching all consumers, not just teens. Media innovations have impacted everyone’s experience—not just the HighSchool Musical set
“What does this mean to me, Laura?”
Nielsen, a leading market and consumer analysis company, concluded that organizations shouldn’t “get too caught up in the hype of digital media usage ,” The Hollywood Reporter, which is owned by Nielsen, explained.
No magic solutions or locations here! Consider Facebook, MySpace. But don’t friend them; let them friend you. (And be VERY careful with what you post!!) This is a touchy area "There are so many kids who are stubborn against anything teachers say, who are struggling in the classroom and refuse to ask for help," Turner said. "When it's so hard to reach these kids, why would you remove any of the weapons at your disposal to make a difference?" –Teacher Randy Turner who teaches English at South Middle School in Joplin, Missouri 2) Cell phones might as well be an appendage. Don’t let students abuse them, but understand that in the very near future mobile devices will be the primary way that people (not just kids) get online. Lib Services will HAVE to become mobile soon. 3) They’re not coming. Like most adults, they want well-established communities where their friends are. Another blog, site, etc won’t be worth it
So don’t reconfigure the playbook. Discard the assumption that, as a rule, teens are “alien” and plan for them as you would any demographic segment— with careful attention and calculus, not panic. Keep your eye on the averages, keep your head on your shoulders, and before you rewire your system, remind yourself: Teens are people, too.--Nielsen