09.29.10 | posted by Joe Hice |

The wizards from Forrester believe creation of content on social media sites has peaked

From mashable.com.

With 500 million people using Facebook and Twitter seeing more than two billion tweets per month, one would assume that social media usage is skyrocketing. New research from Forrester suggests that while participation is on the rise, actual content creation may not be.  Well, ya know what they say; never mistake knowledge for wisdom.

These are probably the same guys who said everything that can be discovered has been discovered and everything that can be written has been written.  These are also the people who said corporations should not use Foursquare in their marketing efforts because not enough people use Foursquare. http://bit.ly/bU6SRm.   Gotta love their take on wisdom.

Forrester’s Social Technographics Profile analyzes consumer social behaviors and trends on an annual basis. Forrester classifies social network users by type: Creators, Conversationalists, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators and Inactives. In the past year, their research shows no measurable growth in the Creators category — the audience that creates social content. (more…)

09.28.10 | posted by Joe Hice |

NC State Celebrates Our Freedom to Read During Banned Books Week

David Hiscoe, NCSU Libraries,  (919) 513-3425

(Raleigh, N.C.)—To salute the bedrock American freedom to read what we choose, the North Carolina State University Libraries today released “Banned Books SoundWave”—a website filled with selections from banned books read by a broad spectrum of members of the university community.  The site is being launched in conjunction with the American Library Association’s (ALA) traditional “Banned Books Week,” an annual event celebrating the open access to information and the importance of the First Amendment in our society.

Running the last week in September, the ALA program is designed to remind us all of the benefits of intellectual freedom and to highlight the dangers of censorship by spotlighting the history of actual or attempted book bannings across the United States.  To support this nationwide celebration of the free access to information, the NCSU Libraries has recorded a range of campus champions reading from books that have been suppressed in the sometimes troubled history of protecting the fundamental right to read what we please. (more…)

09.21.10 | posted by Joe Hice |

OK Go with Circus Dogs!

Circus Dogs perform.  Now that’s what I’m talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs&feature=player_embedded#!

Passion Rules!

09.16.10 | posted by Joe Hice |

NC State favorite school in North Carolina for companies recruiting new hires!

Author: Dave Pond | Web Communications

NC State and other large state universities scored highest with job recruiters looking to hire the best trained and well prepared graduates to fill vacancies in today’s improving job market, say respondents to a recent survey by The Wall Street Journal.

“This story is a testimony to the real-world learning that takes place at great universities like NC State,” said NC State chancellor Randy Woodson. “Our students learn practical skills while maintaining a well-rounded approach to serving their state, their country, and the world, placing them among the nation’s most prepared university graduates.”

NC State ranked 19^th overall (15^th in engineering) by recruiters for some of the largest public and private corporations, non-profits and federal agencies in the nation. Schools had to have a minimum of 60 companies who recruited at the institution to be considered for inclusion – in the final rankings, NC State finished ahead of UNC, Duke, Notre Dame and MIT, among others.

“NC State is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best values in higher education, but this ranking is different,” said Dr. Louis Hunt, vice provost and university registrar at NC State. “This ranking encompasses the entire educational process – it acknowledges the quality of our faculty and students as well as the excellence and appropriateness of our curriculum.”

The university’s reputation in the workplace is no surprise to Morgan Donnelly (‘10), who graduated in May and now works as a digital journalist/reporter with NBC affiliate WSLS 10 in Roanoke, Virginia.

After being told by a number of future broadcast colleagues that it could take up to a year to land a solid position, Donnelly was offered two jobs on the same day less than a month after graduation – a credit not only to her efforts, but also those of NC State faculty and staff in helping Donnelly prepare to succeed beyond the borders of campus. (more…)