GoingOn Social Learning Solutions The Opportunity
The social web has created an information revolution. It has changed the way that we communicate, share ideas, and manage relationships. On today's college campuses, the use of social media has surpassed email as a percentage of total time spent online. Now these same social models and technologies are prepared to fundamentally change the face of education. Are you ready for the social campus?
- How do you engage the Facebook generation?
- What infrastructure is required to support new models of communication and collaboration?
- How do social media models impact existing portals and web infrastructure?
- How do first generation learning management systems evolve to be more engaging and participatory?
At GoingOn, we are helping leading academic institutions answer these questions and implement a new generation of social web infrastructure and learning solutions that will drive today's and tomorrow's social campus.
Social Web Facts
- 566,000 new users join the internet every day
- Facebook has grown to over 200 million worldwide members
- In 2009, Twitter grew 1,382% with unique visitors, growing from 475,000 to 8,000,000
- In just 2 months, more video content is uploaded to YouTube than all of the programming aired by the three major TV networks since their inception.
- It's estimated that Google now runs well in excess of one million servers worldwide
- To date, users have contributed over 10 million articles in 11 languages to Wikipedia
