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Why Social Networks?
Mobile Access
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Social Network Accessing Change 10/09
Facebook 32% + 23%
Twitter 30% + 15%
YouTube 22% + 22%
Source: ROI Research, June 2010
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“This ... is ridiculously simple.” Andy Kleinschmidt
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Social media provides flexibility, efficiency, & scalability.
96%
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over 500 million users – more than the combined populations of the United States, Germany, and Japan.
will serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors this year. Users now upload more than 24 hours of content every minute.
Dell claims $3 million through
Why?
WebGuild 9/13/2010 http://www.webguild.org/20100913/seo-integration-with-social-media
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Internet users spend more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined.
Source: mashable.com
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3+ million active Like pages.
1.5+ million local businesses have active
pages
9 Like pages/day
Average user > 55 minutes/day on Facebook
facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics Retrieved 3/22/2010
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a micro-blogging platform - maximum of 140 characters
Friends are called followers
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• 50,000,000 tweets per day (600 tweets per second)
• 6,000,000 new members in January and February 2010 (2.3 new members / second)
Numbers
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• You engage
• You find common interests
• You listen
• You Share
Compare Twitter to a personal social gathering
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Twitter... is also
• A relationship building tool
• Increase awareness of your programs
• Funnel to new clientele
• Meet others in similar industries, and interests.
Following does not have
to be reciprocal.
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Ability to follow and listen the best and brightest minds in the world in a given subject area
An Ah Ha! Moment
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• Content supplier
• Global reach
• SEO Goodness
• Analytics Great Know what others are watching
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Pick one social network application
and start.
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Find a time each day to participate.
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Integrate into daily activities/work.
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Use to Promote Extension
Programming.
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Be professional, think, use common sense.
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Same rules of behavior as F2F.
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Give credit where appropriate.
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We are better together than separate.
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Acknowledgements
Henry C - http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasmonyc/9172672/
lolcats images - http://icanhascheezburger.com/
Other images - http://thinkstockphotos.com/
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