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Drinking from a Fire Hose
1. Drinking from
a Fire Hose
April 14, 2009
Anne Mims Adrian, PhD
Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University
http://www.flickr.com/photos/webwalker/114991439/
2. Google me, Anne Adrian,
Or find me:
Twitter: aafromaa
delicious: aafromaa
AIM: aafromaa
Slideshare: aafromaa
Flickr: aafromaa
YouTube: aafromaa
3. “Today, if you're not staying
current with Web 2.0
technologies' impact on business,
then you're just not staying
current. Period.”
Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb
flickr.com/photos/rambleon/2384382498/in/set-72157604099911780/
5. Facebook
Women older than 55
make up the fastest-
growing age group on
Facebook
cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/13/social.network.older/
6. Unique URLs in Google’s index
1 trillion
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
7. Wikipedia
2.7 million - articles in English
684 million - visitors in 2008
75,000 - active contributors
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-
web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And
Internet Stats
8. YouTube
70 million – videos (March 2008)
412.3 years - time it would take to view all
content on YouTube (March 2008)
(sources here, here and here)
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
9. YouTube
13 hours - amount of video are uploaded
every minute
$1 million - YouTube’s estimated bandwidth
costs per day
(sources here, here and here)
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
10. Blogosphere
346 million – people read blogs
(comScore March 2008)
900,000 - average number of blog
posts in a 24 hour period
77% - active Internet users read blogs
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
11. Twitter stats
1.4 billion - Tweets as of 3/23/2009
(continuous count )
3 million - Tweets/day (March 2008)
(from TechCrunch)
63% - Twitter users who are male
(from Time)
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
20. Blurring of work and
personal
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html
flickr.com/photos/extensionhorticulture/2902409080/in/set-72157607604707298/
29. Multiple areas of
interest and avenues
Wikis Colleagues
(Wikipedia, eXtensio Organization’s news
n, internal) (University, State
Documents Extension, National
Twitter Extension, eXtension
, USDA, National 4-
Facebook
H)
Friendfeed
Friends’ bookmarks
Subject matter
30. Multiple areas of
interest and avenues
Email Communities
Comments on blogs (book club, Ning
communities)
(particularly my
own) Flickr
Google Analytics YouTube
Feedburner General news
Google Alerts Personal information
38. …that's part of the firehose
…a mix of rapid fire ideas
loaded with “imperfections”—
a lot like life. Jason Adam Young
flickr.com/photos/aafromaa/3026998606/in/set-72157608631840641 /
39. Choose
pipes, methods, and info
based on your purpose
and what you value
flickr.com/photos/namlhots/3096109459/
47. Topics for discussions
– How is email broken?
– What are the solutions?
– Other methods of
sharing, wikis, blogs, Twitter, Fr
iendFeed, IM?
– Still not working? More
solutions coming.
48. Resources
Engaging Communities on their on Turf:
Secrets of Social networkers
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p794
26457/
Not information overload--filter failure
http://blog.aafromaa.com/2008/10/not-
information-overload-filter-failure.html
49. Resources
Clay Shirky quot;It's not information overload. It's
filter failurequot;
http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ at
Web 2.0 Expo NY
Beginner’s Guide to Social Media in Extension
http://collaborate.extension.org/wiki/Beginn
ers_Guide_to_Social_Media_in_Extension
50. Resources
Poscente, Vince. The Age of Speed
Aral, Sinan and Van Alstyne, Marshall
W., quot;Network Structure & Information
Advantage: Structural Determinants of
Access to Novel Information and Their
Performance Implicationsquot; (January
18, 2007). Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=958158
51. Resources
RSS in Plain English, a video
introduction to using news readers from
Common Craft
http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_e
nglish
52. Resources
Feeding Frenzy, an eXtension 30-Minute
session recording presented by Beth
Raney, extension
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p5152
5211/
Use a
newsreader, http://blog.aafromaa.com/2
007/05/how-to-use-news-reader.html
53. “Drinking from a Fire
Hose”
April 14, 2009
Anne Mims Adrian, PhD
Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University
aadrian@auburn.edu
blog.aafromaa.com