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Stage 1

The

Preliminary

Round

Team Name: Red Devils

Name of first member: Himanshu Dutt Sharma

College Name: Institute of Management Technology

Name of second member:

College Name:

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What is Social Media??

Social Media

What is Social Media and how can you use it to enhance student support?

• Social Media provides context, pictures, words, shared meaning

• Facebook, YouTube ( some examples –education programme information, housing, orientation, announcements)

Why is Social Media important?

• If your kids are awake they are probably online

• The average young American now spends every waking minute – except the time in school – using a smart phone, computer, TV or other electronic device according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Those ages 8 – 18 spend more than 7 hours a day with such devices. And that does not count the hour and a half that youths spend texting or talking on their phones

The Asian Market

Peer Endorsement

• The vast majority of people report the opinion they trust most is from ‘someone like me’. For the first time in our history, peers have bested the wisdom of experts

• Peer endorsement is the single greatest decision-making accelerant. Through Social Media, peer influence cycles are happening at a velocity never before seen. Decision making is clearly becoming more social

Social Networking

• Social Networking is the use of communities to engage with others: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter. Social Networking sites often include social media tools to facilitate the interaction and conversation

Social Networking

Friendship

•Keeping in Touch

•Developing new relationships

Sharing

•Photos

•Links

• Interests

Community

•Causes

•Beliefs

•Advocacy

How popular are Social Networks?

• According to the analysts at Hitwise, social networks in general are more popular than search engines in some parts of the world

• Facebook’s overall web traffic pulled ahead of Google’s for the first time in the U.S. in March of this year.

• Facebook dominates the current crop of social networks, accounting for the majority (55%) of all social site visits. When compared to the wider web, Google gets around 9.3% of all web traffic, while Facebook captures just over 7%