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Entries in Demographics (15)
How Much do People Need to Understand Technology to Manage It?
Jeremiah Owyang’s post Gen Y Enter Stage Left, Baby Boomers Exit Stage Right got me to wondering how much people should understand about technology in order to manage it in an organization.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Retirement, Demographics, Social Media, Outsourcing, Software, Knowledge Transfer, Technological Literacy
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What Happens When 20-Somethings Settle Down?
We’ve all seen the lists of things that differentiate younger generations from older generations. Here’s my own:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Google, Social Networking, Video, Demographics, Social Media, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Avatar, Wikipedia, communications, YouTube, Wireless, Social Network Portability, Cell Phones, DataPortability, Internet, Curmudgeon
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Is "My Dow Network" a "Social Network"?
I recently spoke with Trish Bharwada of The Dow Chemical Company. Trish manages My Dow Network, a web-based online membership service launched in 2007 that targets retirees and former employees of Dow.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Industry Analysis, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Retirement, Demographics, Knowledge Transfer
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Old Media Versus Social Media in Emergency Situations
Dave Fleet makes some level-headed comments on emergency use of social media in How Do You Define ‘Media’ In A Crisis? He discusses what the relationship should be between traditional media and social media in a crisis or disaster situation.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Newspapers, Demographics, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, communications, Local Government, Telecommunications
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The Season of the Telephone Interview
It's unusual for me to be interviewed. I usually do interviews in connection with my own research or my own client work. Over the past month, however, I've been interviewed five different times by five different people:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Industry Analysis, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Demographics, Facebook, Market Research, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Local Government
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Facebook: Beware the Rocking Chair Factor
My good friend Jeremiah Owyang, with whom I wrote an article in early 2006 that is STILL regularly among my weekly top ten posts (this past week it was number one), has written Web Strategy: What the Web Strategist should know about Facebook
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Demographics, Social Media, Facebook, Adoption
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Age, Association Member Retention, and Social Networking
Tony Rossell in his blog post The Ageless Question reviewed a published research study that appears to show that age related differences in professional association membership haven't changed as much over the years as some people have been saying.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Social Networking, Demographics, Associations, Social Media, Strategy, Strategic Planning
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How Important is Web Usage Data To You?
Robert Scoble in his May 13, 2007 We Need Better Statistics post does a nice job of starting off a discussion of the problems currently experienced by anyone who tries to make sense of web usage statistics.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Demographics, Social Media, Metrics, Facebook, Market Research
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The Revolution Will Be Online, Not Televised
Last week in Social Media, Demographics, and Antiwar Demonstrations I commented on how the demographics of large protest demonstrations seemed to be changing due to availability of electronic alternatives for organizing and conducting protests. Today in the Washington Post (both print and online editions, the latter requiring registration) Jennifer Earl, director of the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara, writes in Where Have All the Protests Gone? Online the following:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Demographics, Social Media
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Social Media, Demographics, and Antiwar Demonstrations
I heard a snippet of a news report this morning commenting on the apparent difference in ages between anti-war demonstrators today and anti-war demonstrators during the Vietnam War era. The comment I think I heard was that today's demonstrators tend to be much older and grayer.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Industry Analysis, Demographics, Social Media, Market Research
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