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In ACI Roundup: The Use of Social Media and Blogs in Education, we noted various examples of educators using social media and blogs to enhance students’ learning experiences and promote a better understanding of the real-world effects of online reach and collaboration.
As noted in Blogs and Social Media Play Important Roles in Helping Scientists Engage the Public, a recent Pew Internet Research study showed that more scientists are using blogs and social media to communicate with the public than ever before.
As a creative outlet, discourse catalyst, and distribution outlet to reach new and expanded audiences, scholars have been reaping the benefits of blogging for years.
Gigaom was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and grew to be one of the leading blogs in the world. With 6.4 million readers per month, you'd think Gigaom was a success story that would go down in history, but things change quickly in the world of online publishing.
Scholarly publishers already know that digital publishing and social media have changed scholarly research workflows and affected the impact of research. Scholarly presses also recognize that technology has caused a sea change in the scholarly publishing industry.
In an analysis of online mentions of over 2.5 million medical and health sciences-related scholarly documents, Altmetric found that the share of scholarly papers that are mentioned through social media, online news media, social bookmarking, and more has risen from one in 20 in 2009 to nearly one in four in 2014.
Hashtags are an important part of content discovery, so it makes sense that they're equally important for content promotion. In simplest terms, a tweet that is published and shared using a targeted hashtag has one additional way for people to find it than the same tweet without the hashtag.
A new study from Pew Research Center, How Scientists Engage the Public, shows that the number of scientists who use social media and blogs to communicate with audiences is growing.
Are you matching your content creation and publishing efforts to the behaviors of your mobile audience? You should be because more people are consuming online content using their mobile devices every day.
The 2015 Super Bowl posted the highest television audience numbers in history with Katy Perry's half-time show bringing in even more viewers than the actual game.
The most trusted media source in the world in 2015 is online search engines. That statistic comes from a study by Edelman of internet users in 15 countries across the globe.
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