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Social Networks Will Be Like Air
Aug 20th
Charlene Li, social media analyst and co-author of “groundswell – winning in a world transformed by social technologies”, spoke on the future of Social Networks (slides are available on SlideShare, summary available at allfacebook) on March 6, 2008. She stated:
I believe that in the future, social networks will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be. And also, without that social context in our connected lives, we won’t really feel like we are truly living and alive, just as without sufficient air, we won’t really be able to breathe deeply.
Charlene continued:
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The Rise of Social Networks
Dec 5th
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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today. The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:
What’s next? For one thing: Personal Branding. According to Chad Levitt, parts of the next wave of innovation will revolve around social networks, personal brands, massive amounts of data, collaboration and making senese of it all to create value. Also, expect more internal company social networking.
Infographic courtesy of Chad Levitt at his New Sales Economy Blog
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Validation – Give and Get
Dec 9th
This is a great video.
Watching this may be the best 15 minutes you spend all day. C’mon, only 15 minutes out of 1,440 per day, or 10,080 per week.
Acknowledgement, affirmation, validation, civility – we all need it. One of the mindless things we do is to withhold ourselves from others. Not glancing at someone when they are in our proximity is ignoring and withholding. Why do we withhold ourselves from others? Fear, indifference, etc. Acknowledge people, tell them your (positive) observations and feelings. Don’t let fear keep you from affirming, validating or connecting. Life is built with connections More >
Popular Global Social Networks
Aug 26th
We connect, relate, group and network:
Facebook is Number 1 Globally but MySpace is still most popular in the United States. Pingdom.com used Google Insights for Search to compare search volume comparisons across global regions and thereby assess Social Network popularity. They looked at the google data to see where the 12 top social networks are most popular. The social networks in this survey were MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, Imeem and Twitter. Social networking is obviously global. Interestingly, certain social networks are popular in some countries but not in others. Is this due to marketing, demographics, cultural preferences?
