Internet-related Resources

Research analyst Kathryn Zickuhr will discuss reading, writing, and research in the digital age at the edUi 2013 plenary talk.

Susannah Fox will speak at the Joslin Diabetes Center's annual innovation conference in Washington, DC.

Susannah Fox will conduct a 90-minute Master Class on participatory research: models, methods, opportunities, and challenges.

Susan Hildreth, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will present on a recent policy report, developed with the Campaign for Grade-level Reading, that highlights the role of libraries in early learning. In addition, Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie will describe the Project's newly released report about the spcial role libraries play in the life of families with children.

Susannah Fox will present data on U.S. technology adoption and use related to the pursuit of health.

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) will host Lee Rainie for “The Myth and the Reality of the Evolving Patron: The RUSA President’s Program” on Saturday, June 29 at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

Susannah Fox will participate in a national invitational meeting on "Promoting and Sustaining the Collaborative Network Model in Pediatrics" in Alexandria, VA.

Susannah Fox will present data from the first national survey related to self-tracking for health.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the...

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Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the world its first glimpse at what Google had in mind for Glass. Even though Google described it as “an early concept video,” you can clearly see that local search and navigation was a key...

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In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Android Bathroom Signs: Source: Google+ Bike To Work Day At Google Germany:...

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Google released a couple of new UI features with the latest Chrome update for Android yesterday and announced that voice search will be coming to Chrome for iOS “soon”. Android Updates With the Android update, the long search URL box is gone and search queries in Chrome display in the...

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One question I get asked a lot is this: what Excel skills are most important for marketers to learn? I have whittled that interminable list down to five skills that I believe are absolutely essential for marketers to know, presented below in order of importance. Table Formatting I believe that...

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After releasing a preview of the Bing sitemap plugin a few months ago, Bing is ready to officially launch the Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0 to the public. This sitemap plugin allows webmasters to easily create XML sitemap files for their websites that can be submitted to Bing Webmaster Tools or other...

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Foursquare has added new search filters that allow Android and iOS users to make “super-specific” searches, filtering by price, locations where users have or haven’t checked in before, locations ‘friends have checked in’, if a location is ‘open now’, and if...

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There’s a lot of mystery around the revenue driving potential of social media marketing. This week’s infographic comes from AddShoppers, which keeps tabs on social conversion data across networks for over 10,000 online retailers. The data can also be segmented by industry, cool stuff.

Do the numbers surprise you? They did me. Please chime in in the comments what you think, and tweet your favorite stats.

Tweetables

• The average social share for commercial products produces $2.04 in value Tweet this

• The average email share (friend to friend) is worth $17.93 in revenue Tweet this

• The average Google+ share is worth $10.78 in revenue Tweet this

• The average Facebook share is worth $2.35 in revenue Tweet this

• The average Twitter share is worth $1.62 in revenue Tweet this

• The average Pinterest share is worth $1.25 in revenue Tweet this

• Facebook accounts for 39% of social revenue vs 20% Twitter, 16% email Tweet this

• Apparel is the most social-shared retail category followed by general stores and electronics Tweet this

• Cameras are the least socially shared consumer product but has the highest per-share value at $19.75 Tweet this

• Tumblr beats Facebook, Google+ and Twitter in social AOV at $200.33. Google+ next at $192.77 Tweet this

According to a just-published Bloomberg report, Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month, rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online. Other parties (Apple, Microsoft) may now also be interested in the social mapping...

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live. But, Penguin 4 has a...

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Google’s fourth Penguin update — what the company is calling Penguin 2.0 — hit last night, and less than 24 hours later we’re already getting a first chance to look at what sites might be considered “losers” in terms of search visibility. In a nutshell, the list...

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Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you. All you need to do is search on Google for keywords such as [my photos] or [my photos sunset] to bring up matching photos. You can even search for your friend’s photos such as [danny's photos...

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