RSS Contact Us Consumer Health Media And Entertainment Online And Mobile Politics Sports Social Networking’s New Global Footprint March 9th, 2009 Posted in Global , Media And Entertainment , Nielsen News , Online And Mobile | 26 Comments Two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a new Nielsen report “ Global Faces and Networked Places .” 8221; If data captured

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Global Neighbourhoods « SM Global Report: Sun Micros Peter Reiser | Main | OnLine Tribalism & the Future of Social Media » September 09, 2008 SM Global Report: Beelines Francois Gossieaux Tribalism in the Online Community [ Francois Gossieaux speaking at SuperNova. And please, dont start your community project as a technology platform selection. Posted by shel on September 09, 2008 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for

useful survey from global PR firm Burson-Marsteller this week looks at the ways in which the Global Fortune 100 companies are using social media . 65% of Fortune Global 100 firms have a Twitter account. Facebook Fan pages are less popular that Twitter, with 54% of Fortune Global 100 firms having a page. Image by Robert S. Donovan via Flickr

Our friends at HealthMap have created a very useful iPhone App for those in the global health community who need to track and/or report disease outbreaks--from swine flu to diseases affecting crops and animals.  and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases Tags: Global Healt HealthMap brings together disparate data sources from all over the web to achieve a unified and diseases and their effect on human and animal health. 

Also From Workplace Courses to Communities (PDF from the Journal) From workplace courses to global conversations Nancy White and Josien Kapma A growing number of people and organizations in various sectors are focusing on communities (of practice) and networks, as a key to improving their performance. How are communities related to globalization and an increasingly networked world? Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 27 2008 From courses to community: Josien Kapma and Nancy White Published by Nancy White at 6:42 am under communities of practice , learning This is an article that Josien Kapma

Not a day for MacLaren Maclaren has become the latest victim of social media activism. They have joined a growing list of companies to have suffered at the hands of bloggers and Tweeters [Twitterers?] . I I find this story interesting for two reasons:

The model you’re discussing, Ryan, sounds to me very similar to the idea of the “global city” in Sassen (to a lesser degree also the diffuse smoothed capitalism of Hardt/Negri and William Robinson). Where I think it differs is that the “global city” model is actually very exclusionary - a few nodes become very dense sites of capitalist intersections while most others are marginalised; so one ends up with a dense web of small local sites drawing in resources from a massive, geographically proximate periphery. Contribution by Andy Robinson on the p2p research list , which I’m upgrading, because of its thoughtfullness, to a full blog entry. (please

I've been a fan of Global Voices , since I discovered it. The slogan of Global Voices is: " The World is talking, are you listening ?" Via Beth Kanter , and Emmanuel K Bensah , who are both bridgebloggers for Global Voices (Cambodja and Ghana respectively) I learned what a bridgeblogger is. Reuters , the news agency, places a feeds from Global Voices. Via Ethan Zuckerman's blogpost I learned that it's now in the top 200 blogs of Technorati , the blog search engine. and they hope to make information available via blogs all over the world, but particularly in the

Social media is supporting the creation of a youth-led campaign to tackle climate change: as well as enabling recruitment of volunteers it helps individuals (trained as leaders by climate organisation Global Action Plan ) to organise and publicise their own events online, share the results and communicate their individual experience of volunteering. Tags: Clients Climate Squad Great Stuff Social Web Uncategorized API Facebook Global Action Plan Office of the Third Sector V Volunteerin V is an organisation funded by the Office of the Third Sector to promote and fund volunteering for 16-25 year olds.