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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.
When Andrew Sullivan---former blogger for Time and The Atlantic and best known for blogging for The Daily Beast and The Daily Dish---announced last week that he was retiring from blogging to focus on other things, the media world took notice.
During the month of October 2006 when WordPress was just starting out, 595,412 posts were published on blogs using the WordPress-hosted application at WordPress.com. Those 595,412 posts generated an impressive 25.6 million pages views during the same month.
Scholarly publishing is competitive, and getting an article published in a leading journal is an important step in establishing credibility. However, not all scholarly journals are alike.Do you know the difference between real and fake scholarly journals?
Spend some time on web design websites and reading 2015 web design predictions from experts and you'll see one word pops up again and again. That word is interactive. If the predictions are accurate, 2015 will be the year of interactive digital content.
A few years ago, online video was the hottest trend for content publishers. Everyone was creating YouTube channels and taking their blogs or websites to the leading user-generated video site.
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