Monday’s Keynote Speaker

2.0 & the Internet World  –  Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project

Social impact of the Internet

Highlights

• 93% of teens use the internet and 73% of adults
• Everyone has the chance to be publishers, movie makers, storytellers
  • 55% of teens have created content – see social network sites (MySpace and Facebook as the “social dashboards” for their lives
• Americans are customizing their online experience using 2.0 tools
• 49% are of the low-tech group – so there is a lot of people not using technology to its fullest

Take the Typology Quiz on the Pew Internet Project’s Site to learn what tech group you fit into – www.pewinternet.org/quiz/quiz.asp  (I took the quiz and I was an Omnivore)