Posts Tagged ‘Social media’

Taxonomies and Social Media

By Melody Smith | February 28, 2011

Any discussion of online media today cannot ignore the elephant in the room that is social media. Facebook will reach 700 Million Users by the end of 2011, according to Ted Shelton of Open-First. If anyone had any doubts about the revolutionary power of social media in general and Facebook in particular, those doubts have certainly been swept away by recent events in the Middle East. Not least among the many disruptions caused by social media is the way it has changed how people search, discover, and use content. Significantly, this impact is not limited to people’s personal lives, because social media is increasingly being used by businesses and institutions. Agencies and corporate marketers are scrambling to come up with ways to control messaging across the over 900 million “Tweets” generated by Twitter users every month, but these one-to-many and many-to-many communications (via “re-tweets”) have revolutionized the way business is conducted. Content professionals, and especially those in Knowledge Management and Enterprise Content Management, are beginning to ask what role we should be playing in this unfolding trend.

Solving the Challenges of Connecting People and Creating Author Networks

By Melody Smith | February 14, 2011

As social media plays an increasingly important role in professional and scholarly publishing, taxonomies can be increasingly useful in connecting people of similar expertise and interests with their peers. This can lead to greater opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and community building. For publishers and scholarly societies, author networks are key to editorial planning, the peer review process, and a wealth of activities supporting the organization and its programs. Taxonomies can play an important role in improving the quality of this “people data,” by enabling name disambiguation and by tagging people’s names with their appropriate subjects.

New Treasury Websites Embrace Social Media

By Melody Smith | February 4, 2011

The recent launch of the new Treasury.gov web site and five other Treasury Department web sites (FinancialStability.gov, SIGTARP.gov, MyMoney.gov, TIGTA.gov, and IRSOversightBoard.treasury.gov), the first Cabinet-level web site migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a feather in Smartonix’s cap.

What is Web 2.0?

By Melody Smith | January 28, 2011 | 1

Moving away from the static web pages that made up the web for so many years, the dynamic content we know now is Web 2. This includes social networking, blogs, and other interactive applications, i.e. shareable content.

Mobile App Adds Custom Taxonomy

By Melody Smith | January 28, 2011

Appolicious is debuting a new categories feature that adds custom taxonomy for both iOS and Android. For the social media app director, there are now 1,400 individual categories for iOS apps on Appolicious and about 700 for Android apps listed on the app directory. That is one big…fruit?

Twitter’s Ad Revenue Soars

By Melody Smith | January 27, 2011

Recent reports predict a bright future for Twitter and their ad revenue. The social-networking site is predicted to earn nearly three times the revenue growth as compared to 2010.

Semantic Technology and Social Networking – Forever and Ever?

By Melody Smith | January 26, 2011

With semantic technology relying so heavily on social media and especially, Facebook, there is concern that if Facebook goes away will they take Web 3.0 with them?

Technology is Educating Our Future Leaders

By Melody Smith | January 19, 2011

We all know that technology is changing daily and it is hard for us in the profession to stay abreast of new challenges and solutions. But what about the teachers? Teachers in college, teachers in high school, and even teacher’s in elementary school face the same challenge to stay technologically current after creating and preparing classroom activities and assessing students’ learning.