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Social Media Stats from 2012

These are incredibly interesting: 100 Fascinating Social Media Statistics and Figures From 2012 and this very cool visual summary (thanks Duncan for the tip).

Why Videos Go Viral

social media and mainstream religion

Mainline churches come directly or indirectly from the medieval church, and medieval or pre-modern communication was highly relational. In its own low-tech way, the medieval church was networked. People created and shared knowledge and shaped their practical theology or their spirituality by sharing stories...

The modern period changed that. The printing press distributed knowledge and allowed the Reformations to happen, but it also privatized reading... Reading was not done in community anymore, and that changed the relational nature of communication...

Social media changed that. It democratized communication, giving everybody access to all kinds of information. It also gave people access to the means of creating, sharing and collaborating on information.

an excellent interview interview with Dr Elizabeth Drescher, author of "Tweet if You Heart Jesus" here. I've just borrowed the book from our College library. more to come...

When copyright goes bad

I'm writing some stuff on copyright. This is worth watching.

How Milleniial Are You?

Here's a quiz over at the Pew US Research Centre about how much you are like the tech-savvy 'millennial' generation in terms of habits and views. (That would be the US population)...Thanks to Nadia (aka Sarcastic Lutheran) for this.

hmm.... I thought I'd score a bit higher. Have to go out and get a tatt and some piercings and text more...

 

multimedia & design resources

I've transferred the youthmultimedia list of links to images, video, audio, animation and presentation resources to a permanent page here. You can also find it under Pages to the right. I hereby promise to keep it up to date. Have fun and send me your suggestions to add. It's a bit light on Flash stuff, as I havent done animation stuff for a while, but I aim to dig out some of that stuff too.

Please report broken links to me here.

Images - Free

http://www.flickr.com and http://compfight.com/ - a Flickr search tool
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
http://www.archive.org
http://www.simplyyouthministry.com/freebies.html
http://all-free-download.com/hight-resolution-photo/
http://www.wga.hu/index.html - The Web Gallery of Art
http://www.freefoto.com
http://www.imageafter.com
http://www.freeimages.co.uk
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.morguefile.com
http://openphoto.net
http://art.net/%7Ejeremy/photo/public_texture/index.html
http://www.picstyle.de/index_e.html
http://kepek.creart.hu
http://imagepro.photography.com/savagedk
http://www.freemediagoo.com
http://stock.kriegsnet.com
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm
http://www.ppdigital.com
http://thefreesite.com/Free_Graphics/Free_photos/index.html
http://www.free-photographs.net/index.php
http://aarinfreephoto.com
http://www.bigfoto.com
http://www.picturestation.net
http://www.stock.b-man.dk
http://www.nationalgeographic.com

Images - Commercial
http://www.istockphoto.com - plus weekly free photo, monthly free illustration
http://www.shutterstock.com - weekly free photo & illustration

Video & Animation - Free
http://commons.wikimedia.org/ - free images, movies
http://www.archive.org - free images, movies
http://www.kore.uk.com/ - free video, animation
http://www.wingclips.com - video clips from feature tilms
http://www.textweek.com - video suggestions grouped by theme
http://www.simplyyouthministry.com/freebies.html - lots of free stuff, including graphics and clips
http://aso.gov.au/education/ - free video clips - Australian
http://www.churchmedia.net/ - online community sharing media resources
http://bibledex.com/ - Short film intros to Books of the Bible
http://www.pleix.net/films.html – short films
http://www.stockfootageforfree.com/ - requires free account
http://movietools.info/ - requires free account
http://royaltyfreestockvideofootage.com/videostore/category/free-stock-footage.html
http://www.motionelements.com/free/stock-footage
http://vimeo.com/groups/freehd/videos/ - required paid account to download
http://www.vjvault.com/
http://muvipix.com/products.php?subcat_id=40

http://www.cvli.com.au - church video licenses to screen feature films

Video & Animation - Commercial
http://www.istockphoto.com -plus monthly free video
http://www.shutterstock.com - commercial photos & video - weekly free photo
http://www.theworkofthepeople.com - video clips
http://highwayvideo.com/ - video clips
http://www.midnightoilproductions.com - video clips
http://www.proost.co.uk - video, audio, animation, books
http://www.worshiphousemedia.com/ - video clips for sale, some free

Advertising Videos
http://www.theinspirationroom.com - reviews of and links to advertising

Audio - Free
http://www.jamendo.com/en/albums
http://www.soundsnap.com/
http://3hive.com/ - reviews of new recordings with links to free tracks

Audio - Commercial
http://www.istockphoto.com - plus monthly free audio
http://www.proost.co.uk - christian site with ambient, electronic and other music

Media conversion sites
http://media-convert.com/
http://www.zamzar.com/

Presentations
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/ - design tips
http://prezi.com – neat presentation tool
http://www.opensong.org/ - free church presentation software
http://www.zionworx.org.uk/ -  free church presentation software
http://www.indezine.com/ - Powerpoint & presentation resources
http://www.jumsoft.com – Apple Keynote and Pages templates & stuff - commercial

Online Journals & Associations
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ - Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/ - Journal of Religion & Popular Culture
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HPPC – International Journal of Media & Culture
http://avalon.unomaha.edu/jrf/ - Journal of Religion & Film
http://popularculturecollective.com/ - the popular culture collective

Cool stuff
http://www.wordle.net – make art from text
http://visibletweets.com/ - visible tweets
http://kuler.adobe.com/ - colour charts for design
Votapedia - CSIRO tool for using mobile phones for voting and presentation

Creative Connections
http://holdthisspace.org.au/ - cheryl lawrie, VIC
http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/ - jonny baker, UK
http://www.postkiwi.com/ - duncan macleod, ACT
http://pumphouse.blogspot.com/ - rob hanks, NSW
http://digitalorthodoxy.com/ - darren wright, NSW

Design Ideas
... coming shortly...

Templates - Apple Motion
http://www.motionelements.com

Templates - Apple Pages
http://www.jumsoft.com - commercial
http://www.facilisi.com/ - commercial
http://oegf.co.uk/ - free

Templates - Apple Keynote
http://www.jumsoft.com - commercial
http://oegf.co.uk/ - free

Learning to teach online

here is a new website with vdeos about online teaching and learning hosted by the university of new south wales' college of fine arts.

learning to teach online

 

copyright

just found out that duke university has a centre for the study of the public domain. a bunch of presentations about copyright and music interested me. there are webcasts stacks of interesting lectures..

another reason to go back to my old school when next i travel...

Life Online

Norton/Symantec have released a study called Norton Online Family Report: a multi-nation survey of how families set house rules around internet use. Download the report here. The report found that Australian parents are more controlling of family computer use than the global average. Read an online news report by the Age here (including response from Andrew Fuller).

Nielsen have released new stats that indicate that on average, 22% on online time is spent using social media. 72% of Australians use social networks online. Read the Age report on this here.

playing with tumblr

my new tumblr page

just seems like another kind on blog to me.... but having some fun anyway. marcus and chris were talking about how urban seed uses social media today. very impressive, and tumbler got a mention along the way.