GeoSocial: Making it Real

Trends in Planning TechnologyAPA National Planning Conference - 2014

Regulatory Framework

Evidence Consultation

Deliberation Outcome

Anonymity breeds Contempt

Facebook estimates that between 5.5% and 11.2% of accounts are fake3 February '14Last week, during its fourth-quarter earnings report, Facebook revealed it had 1.23 billion monthly active users, 757 million daily active users, 945 million monthly active mobile users, and 556 million daily active mobile users. In its 10-K filing published on the weekend, the company estimated that in 2013, between 5.5 percent and 11.2 percent of these users were fake. Putting those numbers together, Facebook says at least 67.65 million fake accounts were used last month. That number can go as high as 137.76 million, if the company’s higher-end estimate is to be believed.

Twitter’s Very Real Fake ProblemApril 15, 2014 A new report from Twopcharts reveals a massive problem with Twitter -- approximately 44% of its 974 million users have never tweeted. Moreover, 30% of Twitter's accounts (292 million users) have only tweeted one to 10 times, while only 13% of all accounts (127 million) had tweeted over a hundred times. Those dismal numbers paint a dramatically different picture from the 241 million "active" users that the company claims.

Sentiment Analysis

Garbage in. Garbage out.

Geosocial - 2-sided Model

Open Data

Participants in the area are notified of consultations in their area, and encouraged to “connect” with the topic.Once a threshold of 25 participants “connect”, an email is generated to the Proponent advising them that residents want to consult.

Proponents are notified that their topic has been launched on PlaceSpeak and that they

should “claim” their Topic. If they do not do so

immediately, then a second email will notify them when a

sufficient level of residents express interest.

PlaceSpeak Contact

Telephone: 1-866-998-6977

Address:

PlaceSpeak Inc. 1005 Cypress Street Vancouver, B.C. CANADA V6J 3K5info@placespeak.com www.placespeak.com@placespeak www.facebook.com/PlaceSpeak