Social Media Trends,Emerging Tech,&Academic Apps

Tara Radniecki

ITS Tech DayApril 15, 2012

Loyola University Chicago

Hyper-Connected

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Smartphone-Update-2012.aspx?src=prc-headline http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets.aspx?src=prc-headline

http://www.pushon.co.uk/news/young-people-would-now-rather-use-social-media-than-watch-tv-according-to-latest-study/http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385960,00.asphttp://insights.iyogi.com/research/iyogi-insights-33-parents-say-i-do-to-ipad-for-their-kids.htmlhttp://insights.iyogi.com/research/63-people-prefer-to-stay-connected-than-warm.htmlhttp://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01/25/there-are-now-more-iphones-sold-than-babies-born-in-the-world-every-day/

Joe Murphy. Important Mobile Trends for 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/joseph.murphy/hhlib6-trends-talk

Social Curation

● Selecting, storing, and sharing online data (including text, images, videos, and more) from a variety of sources.

● Biggest trend is visual curation - creating, collecting, and sharing images

Social Curation

Pinterest's Rapid Rise● Hit 10 million U.S. unique monthly users

faster than any other site before

Pins of Interest...

● 17.2% of all pinboards are categorized under Home○ Arts and Crafts (12.4%)○ Style/Fashion (11.7%)○ Food (10.5%) ○ Inspiration/Education

(9.0%). ● Food category gets the most

repins.http://mashable.com/2012/03/12/pinterest-most-popular-categories-boards/

● More than 3% of all boards are titled “For the Home,” followed by:

○ “My Style,” (1.97%)○ “Products I Love”

(1.86%)○ “Books Worth

Reading” (1.68%) ○ “Food” (1.23%).

Pins of Interest

● Pinboards about products tend to generate the most “likes” from users.

● More than 80% of all pins are repins.● etsy.com is the most popular source for pins. Rounding

out the top 5 are: ○ Google.com○ flickr.com○ tumblr.com ○ weheartit.com

http://mashable.com/2012/03/12/pinterest-most-popular-categories-boards/

Integration for easy sharing● Facebook● Twitter

Adding Pins

Let's get ready to....● Microblogging platform

● Curation: Quick & easy to grab and collect content from around the web

● 120 million monthly unique visitors

● 15 billion monthly pageviews

● Easy integration to Facebook Timeline & Twitterhttp://mashable.com/2012/01/23/tumblr-15-billion-pageviews/

Reddit"The front page of the internet."

● 2 billion pageviews in December 2011● Users add links to content● Other users may then vote the posted links

up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the reddit homepage

● Topical sections called subreddits

● Food photography, discovery, and reviews

● Share your food pics and recommendations

● Search for nearby foods

● Location-based Guides

● Users curate their own pictures (spotted) as well as other foodstuff they discover on the site○ Loved○ Wanted○ Guides - either they created or follow

● Sharing via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, & Flickr

A Mobile Must

Instagram

● THE photo-sharing app

● 27 million users on iOS app ● Just released Android app - more than 1

million droid downloads in the first 24 hours

● Integrated sharing w/ Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, & Foursquare

Location, Location, Location

● Explore feature

● Virtual check-ins

● 250,000 menus

Not just for checkin' in...

● Leave & read tips

● Make to-do lists

● Integrates w/ Facebook and Twitter

hyper-personalization

Curated Web: A web that provides people with the ideas and information they are looking for before they even know they are looking for it, is imminent.

- Gary Nix

http://www.business2community.com/social-media/14-trends-of-social-media-culture-0136261

Almost creepy...

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/296121/10-hilarious-google-autocompletes

QR Codes● Quick Response Code: two-dimensional

barcodes

○ To read a QR Code, you need a smartphone & an app that reads barcodes

○ Usually points to a web address, but can point to...■ email■ text message■ vCard contact■ text■ and more...

http://blog.queaar.com/post/8811809234/infographics-the-rise-of-qr-codes

http://blog.crowdscience.com/2011/08/qr-code-examples/

NFC Tags● A short range wireless technology that is

based around a passive, non-powered source (NFC tag) and an “initiator” device (your smartphone).

● It allows two devices embedded with NFC chips to transmit small pieces of data when they are in close proximity (~2"). This data can be credit card information, coupons, tickets, texts, urls..

http://tappinn.com/

Social Media ConsumptionSolitary activities no more...

● Television● Movies● Music● Reading

Shares to Facebook & Twitter

Academic Apps Blitz

Here we go....!

Productivity

cardmunch

Reading

Instapaper

Ebooks

Taking Notes

Penultimate

Jot Not Scanner

Dragon Dictation

Writing

Documents to Go

PresentingAdobe Connect

Keynote

Attendance

Attendance

Grading

Essay Grader

Course Management

Research

http://libraries.luc.edu/m/

LUC Libraries' Homepage

Questions?

Tara Radniecki

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