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Don Calladine’s excellent Next Generation preso has been updated, which is a good degustation of stats and latest digital examples.
Here’s the results of a comprehensive survey of 9,000 consumers in 35 countries about their social usage
Australian retailers are finally leaving the shores of social media apathy and are attempting to navigate the treacherous waters of consumer engagement. No doubt spurred on by the negative PR associated with non-engagement, retailers are also sensing the hidden treasure to be found with consumer loyalty. The social media wave started several years ago, and it still baffles me why has it taken retailers so long to take social media seriously?
Listening is the first part of our Social Media Action Plan – Listen, Engage, Influence
Monitoring social media conversations is now proving to be useful for predicting the stock market levels, acccording to this report from Mail Online.
An online mood-tracking tool called OpinionFinder also measured whether the users were generally positive or negative and how that changed over time. The team was then able to measure variations in public mood and then compare them to closing stock market values.
The key emotion turned out to be “Calmness” .. which is pretty cool.
Oddcast has teamed up with Pointroll to create this cool Augmented Reality service which is driven from your webcam.
It’s called Get Me In The Head and although the performance is a little slow it’s still pretty cool
This video shows the features in case you don’t have a webcam.
Here’s an insightful look at some of the emerging Digital Trends from Frog Design
Facebook’s growth continues, here’s the latest statistics
People on Facebook
- More than 500 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
Activity on Facebook
- There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
- Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
I never tire of watching videos which highlight the incredible statistics surrounding the penetration of the internet, and I’m still surprised by the growth in some of these statistics.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
Sweden is known for it’s innovation which not only expresses itself in design, but also in creative campaigns.
Agency Forsman and Bodenfors decided to use one of Facebook’s built in features of “Tagging” to get the word out about Ikea’s Malmo store opening. First, they created a Facebook profile for the store manager, Gordon Gustavsson. Then, over the next two weeks, uploaded images from of IKEA showrooms to his Facebook photo album.
