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While apps and hashtags have been all the rage this election season, another age-old mechanism has surfaced thanks to social media: Good old-fashioned peer pressure.
Hey, did you vote yesterday? Oh, thats right you told me in some odd million ways that you did: You hit the Facebook Im Voting button, checked in to your polling place using Foursquare and received your I Voted badge that you then tweeted out using the #ivoted hashtag. And then there was that possibly illegal photo of your ballot and local polling place you posted on Instagram.
This is being called the social media election the first time that candidates and the world are using social media to campaign, predict, and get out the vote. But after today, its clear this is our peer pressure election.
Up until now, social networking efforts have been focused on educating users, as well as serving as data sources for a barrage of infographics and charts (the effectiveness of these being debateable). But things took a turn yesterday as the polls opened: Social networks were flooded with bragging rights, badges, pictures, and hashtags showing off civic engagement.
When did participating in politics on the civic level warrant a pat on the back from your entire social circle? People have been voting for a really, really long time and that little sticker used to be enough. Talking about politics and voting traditionally was a private matter, something you kept close to the chest because it wasnt polite to initiate a potential disagreement.
Of course, nothing is personal anymore. Social networking made it okay and normal to talk about what you had for breakfast, whether or not you should cut your hair, how exactly you feel about your new running shoes everything. Everything is relevant and interesting and up for discussion even if its not. So, of course, thats going to include politics.
Its been made cool to get politically involved and motivated, and to simultaneously flood your friends feeds with near-threatening statements about voting. The same people that youve seen posting drunken bar photos and needy song lyrics and bathroom mirror-taken profile pictures have also been the ones bragging about their vote and urging shaming, even you to do the same. Every time I got an app-prompted email or text pushed from a friend or saw a tweet or Facebook post roll in touting their voting accomplishment and telling me to be as politically engaged as they are and do the same, I just want to scream, Yes. Got it. I voted too, I just dont feel the need to scream it from the rooftops. Way to go for doing the bear minimum in a functioning democracy, something that people in other countries fight and die for. Youre a national hero!
But heres the thing: If it worked, if it increased voter turnout, then it was worth it. One thing we already know is that the youth vote looks to be even more important during this election than four years ago. As of press time, national exit polling shows that 19 percent of the electorate was between 18 and 29 and that Obama won this group by 24 points in fact, Obama captured 60 percent of the youth vote.
A study also shows that being able to hit this button and immediately share your activism is motivating people to vote, and that just seeing it is also increasing voter turnout. Theres also this report from the American Political Science Association that explains people get a kick out of others recognizing their activism:
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Vodacom has announced kill off its social networking play The Grid by 1 December.
The location-based social network, which in 2010 had around two million members in South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania, was accessible by mobile users around the world.
The Grid, which was formed in 2007 alongside instant messaging service Meep, allowed people to chat to friends, see where they were on a map and share pictures and videos with them.
It also briefly partnered with South African-based terrestrial TV network etv to show the daily mood of the country during the morning weather report.
The mobile network sent out mass SMSes confirming the planned termination date:
As of 1/12/2012 well be discontinuing the service. Please log on and retrieve any contacts or details that youd like to save. The Grid team.
Two of the leads on The Grid Vincent Maher and Nic Haralambous went on to form social community builder Motribe in 2010. After a couple of successful apps, Motribe itself was bought out by Mxit the social network which The Grid had initially been built to compete with.
This is the second big social project that Vodacom has killed this year. Back in July, Memeburn sister site Ventureburn reported that the mobile giant was planning to sell its stake in mobile video product Zoopy. Shortly thereafter Zoopys founders announced that they would be leaving the company.
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Quest Software, Inc. (now a part of Dell) today introduced new advice on how to maximize the deployment of the social functionality in SharePoint 2013 to accelerate user adoption. In addition, the company unveiled Quest Social Hub available now on the Microsoft SharePoint Store a new companion tool to Quest Web Parts for SharePoint that enables users to integrate external social media networks within SharePoint.
Much has been made about the advantages offered by SharePoint 2013, including shredded storage, HTML5 UIs, new APIs and a cloud-friendly application model. But these new capabilities alone will not drive adoption because end users simply dont care about features designed for engineers and developers. The key feature in SharePoint 2013 is social geared for end users and transforming the collaboration experience, which, in turn, can drive SharePoint adoption.
Why IT should care about social in SharePoint 2013
The social enhancements in SharePoint 2013 enable organizations to greatly improve the work experience for users. New features include:
And, while theres a reluctance to bring social into the enterprise, there are significant benefits for todays globally distributed workplace in adopting a social mentality. These benefits include the ability to accelerate collaboration across geographies and time zones, as well as improved end user engagement, which leads to adoption and the better information control that is critical to good governance.
Quest helps organizations leverage SharePoint 2013 social to revolutionize end user experience and accelerate adoption
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