Category: computer-mediated communication
In the first paper I’ve seen using social media (like Twitter) to tie to a real world monetary outcome, Asur and Huberman (2010) at the Social Computing Labs in Palo Alto, CA use Twitter activity to predict film box office sales. Taking all 24 major film releases between November 2009 and January 2010, the number of tweets on new films predict sales even better than the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), an online prediction game (think fantasy football for film success) that is described as the “gold standard” for predicting box office revenues.
A reminder on e-mail and sometimes unintended recipients: a sexually explicit conversation between two Cornell employees was “accidentally” sent campus-wide.
I report on Day 2 of E-Learn, with topics including blended learning, mobile learning, data mining, online communities, and Second Life.
The first day of E-Learn is over, and I wanted to share my thoughts on the many presentations I saw today.
Research firm (and apparently futurists) Gartner suggests that businesses will have dress codes for their employee’s online avatars by 2013.
A financial controller was fired for sending confrontational e-mails to her coworkers. One such email, written in capitals and highlighted in bold blue, reads: “To ensure your staff claim is processed and paid, please do follow the below checklist.”