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Online Dating [Infographic], Online Dating & Relationships Report | Pew Research Center; How I Hacked Online Dating | Amy Webb | TED

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Online Dating & Relationships | Pew Research Center

Overview
One in ten Americans have used an online dating site or mobile dating app; 66% of these online daters have gone on a date with someone they met through a dating site or app, and 23% have met a spouse or long term partner through these sites. Public attitudes toward online dating have become more positive in recent years, but many users also report negative experiences.

These are among the results of a national survey of dating and relationships in the digital era, the first dedicated study of this subject by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project since 2005. Key findings include:

  • 11% of internet users (representing 9% of all American adults) say that they have personally used an online dating site. As recently as 2008, just 3% of American adults had used online dating sites.
  • 7% of cell phone apps users (representing 3% of all American adults) say that they have used a dating app on their cell phone.

Taken together, 11% of all American adults are “online daters”—meaning they have used a dating site or mobile dating app. Online dating is especially common among the college-educated and those in their mid-20’s through mid-40’s, and 38% of Americans who are currently single and actively looking for a partner have used online dating at one point or another. See the online report or download the pdf.

Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating | TED.com
Amy Webb was having no luck with online dating. The dates she liked didn’t write her back, and her own profile attracted crickets (and worse). So, as any fan of data would do: she started making a spreadsheet. Hear the story of how she went on to hack her online dating life — with frustrating, funny and life-changing results.

Online Dating [Infographic] | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

Dating Digitally: Pew

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Social Web for Good: Crowdfunding Better Communities | Mashable

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While technology is often cited as a barrier to real human connection, it also unites people in a way that’s changing communities and individual lives, as well as how we do business. And it’s happening all over the country.

Here are 2 heartwarming stories of communities coming together to help out struggling small businesses using social crowdfunding.

via Social Web for Good: Crowdfunding Better Communities | Mashable.

The State of the Connected Workspace [INFOGRAPHIC] | mindjet

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The Connected Workspace

Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction | TED.com

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In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again. Andrew Fitzgerald takes a look at the (aptly) short but fascinating history of new forms of creative experimentation in fiction and storytelling.

via Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction | Video on TED.com.

7 Tips for Creating a Social Workplace | Mashable

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Each year, reports on employee dissatisfaction show workplace issues cause workers to feel stressed and undervalued. According to a survey by the American Psychological Association, employee dissatisfaction is often related to employer issues. 43% cite lack of opportunities for growth and advancement. 43% say a heavy workload leads to stress. 40% point to unrealistic job expectations. 39% bemoan long hours.

Creating a more social workplace may be the solution. Opportunities for teamwork and collaboration can help employees stop seeing themselves as individual task-doers and start seeing themselves as valuable team members, leading to a boost in employee morale and, ultimately, motivation and productivity.

Here are seven tips for eliminating employee dissatisfaction and creating a more social workplace:

1. Provide Workplace Perks
2. Offer Opportunities to Collaborate
3. Create Online Communities
4. Allow Growth From Within
5. Recognize Everyone, Not Just Star Players
6. Focus on Outplacement Services
7. Keep in Touch With Worker Needs

Read the full story: 7 Tips for Creating a Social Workplace | Mashable.

The 6 Best Tools for Making Memes | Mashable

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Love them, hate them or flat out don’t understand them at all, memes are here to stay — at least for the foreseeable future. Immortalized on Reddit, the most popular memes spread through the web like a weird, low-resolution wildfire.

Discussed:

  1. Imgur
  2. Livememe
  3. Quickmeme
  4. Meme Dad
  5. Imgflip
  6. Photoshop

via The 6 Best Tools for Making Memes | Mashable

 

‘Social Fiction’ Brings Characters to Life via Facebook and Twitter | Mashable

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A former Nickelodeon Animation storyboard artist and a Facebook employee have teamed up to create a new form of entertainment: social fiction.

Illustrator Steve Lowtwait and writer Michael Smith are telling a fictional story through social media that’s centered around a protagonist called “Hawk Funn.” They have set up real social profiles on Facebook and Twitter for fictional characters in the story, and they post about the characters’ lives just like real people would. If you follow Hawk on Facebook and on Twitter, you can track the plot and learn about his life as a suburban dad in Colorado and his fear of the indoors.

Hawk Funn

via ‘Social Fiction’ Brings Characters to Life via Facebook and Twitter | Mashable.

Short on social skills? Debrett’s to teach young jobseekers manners (at £1,000 a go) | theguardian.com

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Snip: They are not ignoring new technology, and will offer guidance on “netiquette”: when to put a smiley face or kisses on an email (never in the workplace) and why you should never text the boss unless they have texted you first. Debrett’s developed its programme on “social intelligence” for under-30s after a survey of business leaders threw up some serious issues around young people entering the modern workplace.

Read the full story: Short on social skills? Debrett’s to teach young jobseekers manners (at £1,000 a go) | theguardian.com.

Livefyre + Storify: A Marriage Made in Heaven | Information Space

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Job Seekers Recruited via Social More Likely to Be Hired [INFOGRAPHIC] | MashableJ

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As newly graduated students and the recently unemployed look for open positions in a difficult job market, companies are on the lookout for new employees. Many employers are using social recruiting, in which companies find potential job candidates on social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

What might be surprising is social recruiting is more likely to get you hired, plus it can help you stay employed longer.

Jobvite recently released a survey showing more people get hired from online referrals and company career pages than from job boards. As shown in the infographic below, almost half of the social recruiting hires remained in their positions for over three years.

Jobvite: A Proven Asset

via Job Seekers Recruited via Social More Likely to Be Hired [INFOGRAPHIC] | Mashable.