Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts

How Schools Could Use Social Media

I am very proud learning that my school where I graduated, ASSUMPTION COLLEGE OF DAVAO (formerly Assumption School Of Davao) come up with this idea on how to guide their students in their education.  

Social Media has really influenced schools and the way education is being delivered.  The main reason why schools are encouraged their students to use SOCIAL MEDIA is the powerful ability they inspire and motivate youngsters. 

I know that sometimes FACEBOOK,TWITTER,GOOGLE+,etc.. disturb the learning's of our students.  But these are just a case to case basis if we the parents can monitor and guide our children in their Social Media activities.

In my school they introduced another form of SOCIAL MEDIA that helps their students interact, create, share and get information about their studies and at the same time
parents can check online on their child's academic development.

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GENYO really bridged the gap between the old learning's we have earned with the cyber learning our children have today.  This kind of Social Media Education is beginning to emerge and it's happening right now in Davao City.

Should My Town Use Social Media?

Before the Philippines was coined as the "texting capital of the world"  now the "social networking capital of the world"  not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.



The Philippines today is using different social media as part of communication and interactive activity.


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As we define  Social media includes web- and mobile-based technologies which are used to turn communication into an interactive dialogue among organizations, communities, and individuals.


The question here is, SHOULD MY TOWN USE SOCIAL MEDIA?


Well, I guess YES and NO is my answer.  




YES. Why? The use of SOCIAL MEDIA help a lot of the productivity in the low-productivity Philippines. In this we can easily gain access to the things we wanted. For example; as a housewife having a bank account, it lets us use credit card to buy online.  The vast majority of consumer transactions in the Philippines (even water, electricity, rent) is done in online now.


As for brand awareness, Smart, NescafĂ© and Starbucks are already everywhere (TV, billboards) and even FACEBOOK PAGE AD adds much more to their product promotion.


For emergency assistance: Calling DAVAO CENTRAL 911 we can easily call them for help because of a mobile-based technology we can text or call them 24/7.


Social network penetration is amazingly high in the Philippines, reaching 95%. Facebook is the country's most popular website, more so than Google, and has a penetration rate of 93.9%.


And most of all the communication with other relatives living abroad makes possible because of SOCIAL MEDIA. 




NO.  This attitude towards society translates perfectly into web/mobile social media where privacy is constantly invaded and is a significant part in appropriation of social media in the Philippines.
I think it would also be useful to consider the importance of privacy issues. Here in my town, people are not as focused on privacy issues as folks in the other countries (being one of the biggest hang-ups that Facebook users complain about). 


In fact, in some of the languages of the Filipino people here is no word for "private" (and if there is, not in the same sense). People will literally walk into your room without asking or "invade your privacy" without a second thought. 


This attitude towards society translates perfectly into internet social media where privacy is constantly invaded and is a major factor in appropriation of social media here in the Philippines. 


That being said, would love to see someone go out and research/compare the types of tweets/status updates that are appearing in various different countries. Could be a good pulse on cultural reactions to social media.


Maybe in other hand we can say that we need a SOCIAL MEDIA here in our country but we have to be responsible enough on how to use it positively.   


Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites | July 2012

Here are the 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites as derived from eBizMBA Rank which is a constantly updated average of each website's Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank for both Compete and Quantcast.


1 | Facebook
2 - eBizMBA Rank | 750,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 2 - Compete Rank |2 - Quantcast Rank | 2 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

2 | Twitter
13 - eBizMBA Rank | 250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 24 - Compete Rank | 5 - Quantcast Rank | 9 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

3 | LinkedIn
27 - eBizMBA Rank | 110,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 44 - Compete Rank | 23 - Quantcast Rank | 14 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

4 | MySpace
84 - eBizMBA Rank | 70,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 51 - Compete Rank| 62 - Quantcast Rank | 138 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

5 | Google Plus+
95 - eBizMBA Rank | 65,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *NA* - Compete Rank | *NA* - Quantcast Rank | *NA* - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

5 | Google Plus+
95 - eBizMBA Rank | 65,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *NA* - Compete Rank | *NA* - Quantcast Rank | *NA* - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

7 | LiveJournal
303 - eBizMBA Rank | 20,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 605 - Compete Rank | 203 - Quantcast Rank | 102 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

8 | Tagged
315 - eBizMBA Rank | 19,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 447 - Compete Rank | 217 - Quantcast Rank | 282 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

9 | Orkut
350 - eBizMBA Rank | 17,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *NA* - Compete Rank | *NA* - Quantcast Rank | 156 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

10 | CafeMom
451 - eBizMBA Rank | 12,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 127 - Compete Rank | 82 - Quantcast Rank | 1,144 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

11 | Ning
456 - eBizMBA Rank | 12,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 617 - Compete Rank | 411 - Quantcast Rank | 339 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

12 | Meetup
621 - eBizMBA Rank | 7,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 838 - Compete Rank | 516 - Quantcast Rank | 509 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

13 | myLife
728 - eBizMBA Rank | 5,400,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 122 - Compete Rank | 391 - Quantcast Rank | 1,670 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

14 | myYearbook
823 - eBizMBA Rank | 3,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 451 - Compete Rank | 285 - Quantcast Rank | 1,732 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA

15 | Badoo
952 - eBizMBA Rank | 2,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1,596 - Compete Rank | 1,148 - Quantcast Rank | 112 - Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 7/6/2012 | eBizMBA


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