Here’s an updated video from the team at Socialnomics which includes some great examples of how social media is used to deliver real business results.

Social Media continues to be a topic generating quite a bit of buzz, and sometimes this buzz comes in the form of statistics.

Gary Haynes from Personalize Media has created this counter which demonstrates the raw volume of time and dollars associated with several key social media entities.

Here’s some of the key stats  Read more... (294 words, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

• * 20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)

October 15th is Blog Action Day, where 10,000 bloggers around the world are writing about climate  change.

Social Media certainly provides a platform to harness the “collective” due to the global accessibility of internet and the ease of content publication which has given consumers a voice.  Cause marketing is certainly one of the early adopters of doing this, and I expect to see a continued growth in corporate sponsorship of these initiatives, demonstrating the merging of social media engagement and PR.  Read more... (274 words, 1 image, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

The Economist has published this video which contains a series of interesting statistics about the changing media landscape.

Whilst the stats are US focused, they are representative of the changes that are occuring across the globe.

Looking like a big brother to the iPhone, the CrunchPad tablet PC  from Techcrunch is likely to shake up the tablet computing market.

Crunchpad

At 18 mm thick, the tablet only works when connected to the internet.  The device takes advantage of clever touch protocols that make for efficient and pleasant consuming of content.  Rumoured to be priced at around US$300, the device could become a widely adopted method for reading online content.  Read more... (159 words, 1 image, estimated 38 secs reading time)

I still recall presenting the Facebook Australian population at 4.3 million around the middle of 2008.

It’s now surpassed 5 million which means that more than 1 in 3 of Australia’s online population is on Facebook.

This is quite compelling, and its not wonder that brands and organisations are starting to allocate marketing spend to reaching this audience.

The challenge of course is that social networks don’t respond well to interruption marketing.  Read more... (158 words, 1 image, estimated 38 secs reading time)

History of the Internet is “an animated documentary explaining the progress in computing technologies from 1957 to 2009.
The tale is told using PICOL – Pictorial Communication Language – icons, and is a very effective communication tool,

via Core77

Australia day is here for 2009, and a good chance to review the way digital has brought about change to the way we live.

Here are some key events from 10 years ago in 1999
- Mark Taylor was the 1999 Australian of the year
- Companies spent millions protecting themselves from the Y2K bug
- Google moved from their garage to their first office with a search market share of < %1
- George Bush criticised President Clinton on Kosovo saying “We need an exit strategy before going to war”  Read more... (350 words, 4 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Emarketer confirms that the Internet is more popular than Newspapers for news

I would expect that the internet will reach TV by this time next year.

Tweetscan now lets you download your twitter history https://www.tweetscan.com/data.php

Here’s the last few tweets from my history.  Read more... (281 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)