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The web turns 25

The World Wide Web is growing up. It turns 25 on March 12 — if you use the date Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper proposing the system as the birthday of the Web. The Web is now woven in our everyday lives. We use it for everything, from looking up directions to chatting with friends and

The web turns 25Bridget Shirvell2014-03-04T13:42:28-05:00

Study uncovers six basic types of Twitter conversations

A graph of a polarized crowd created by Pew Research Center and Social Media Research Foundation You pull up your phone to check Twitter, see a couple of tweets that interest you, so you retweet or reply. We’ve all done it, or at least all of us tweeters. What you may not know,

Study uncovers six basic types of Twitter conversationsBridget Shirvell2014-02-26T15:53:13-05:00

Measuring the impact of social media

Everyone is speaking at once, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, by text, cell and computer. It makes it hard to get and hold anyone’s attention, but nonprofit foundations are increasingly using social media to interact with and impact people around the world. Yet, many nonprofits are struggling to see the results of their social media

Measuring the impact of social mediaBridget Shirvell2014-01-27T14:29:55-05:00

6 arthritis tips from the NewsHour Twitter chat

On Thursday, Jan. 16, I hosted a Twitter chat on arthritis for PBS NewsHour in partnership with the Mayo Clinic,NIH's National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,American College of Rheumatology, the Arthritis Foundation and the Rheumatoid Patient Foundation. Did you know that there are more than 100 kinds of arthritis? Or that arthritis disproportionately

6 arthritis tips from the NewsHour Twitter chatBridget Shirvell2014-01-27T14:13:53-05:00

SNAP programs at farmers markets improve fruit and vegetable consumption, study finds

When farmers markets incentivize the use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, to purchase fruits and vegetables consumption raises. That shouldn't come as a surprise but it’s always nice when data backs it up and also finds that farmers markets that incentivize the use of food stamps also do better economically.

SNAP programs at farmers markets improve fruit and vegetable consumption, study findsBridget Shirvell2014-01-13T15:51:32-05:00

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