Posts Tagged 'social network'

New media rules! Here’s why

Published August 17, 2009 Uncategorized Closed
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If someone needed a solid proof that new media is the king, Econsultancy gathered more statistics about social media services. The fact that facebook is the 4th largest country in the world is already known, but I was blown away from the fact #5:

It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners. Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The internet took four years to reach 50 million people… In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users.

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Just 4 years to reach 50,000,000 users (now there are some 1,200,000,000 global users), and in only 9 months facebook rounded up 100,000,000 new users. Unbelievable numbers!

Between those public stats lie some corporate stats as well, that emphasis the importance of new media and the impact it has on businesses, regardless of industry:

80% of companies use, (or are planning to use), LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching their 45-millionth membership.

So yes, if you just landed on Earth, don’t waste your time and money buying 50″ LCD – get a laptop or netbook and start working the web.

Link:
Econsultancy – 20+ more mind-blowing social media statistics
Brian Solis – Everything you never knew about facebook

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Social Networking with the Elite

Published December 24, 2007 Uncategorized 3 Comments
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BusinessWeek.com published last month a special report, titled Social Networking with the Elite. With the growing popularity of social sites such as Facebook, Linked-In, not to mention the whopping millions of MySpace, the alternatives have started to appear. Private-by-invitation-only-closed communities, that consciously discriminate members are here. Some are private by firewall, other by pure discrimination. BusinessWeek lists, among others, A-Space, aSmallWorld, INMobile.org, Diamond Lounge, Behance Network and my personal favorite ModelsHotel.com (guess why it’s a closed network…;-).

The first private site in the slide show really surprised me – A-Space. This CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) internal site, launching these days, is for members of the CIA and other US intelligence agencies. Yes, only spooks like Mulder and Scally, and maybe some guys from Heroes are allowed to enter. Now, seriously, the purpose of A-Space is to use collaborative “social software”—not all that different from features found on Facebook, Wikipedia, and social bookmarking site del.icio.us—to share intelligence reports more rapidly across agencies.

Reuters Spaces is another example of how social software can do wonders for your business. Reuters, much like IBM, are considered early adapters – they’ve deployed reporters in Second Life, and now opened up Spaces, a private network for Hedge Funds Executives.

Wow !! As an advocate of social software in general and social software for the business in particular – great news. Now we have more example and best practices of why social networking is important to the business. If the CIA has realized the potential of sharing information and expertise internally, I guess they see some added value in it, wouldn’t you agree?

Social software and Shimon Peres

Published December 13, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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Shimon Peres, Israel’s President, visited Haifa Research Lab (HRL) this week, along with Meir Nissensohn, IBM Israel General Manager. Mr. Peres demonstrated excellent knowledge in internet and social networks, as several researchers presented their work in the field of business implications of social networks. Then Mr. Peres discussed in Arabic with Aya Soffer, using IBM’s MASTOR, a two-way, free form speech translator that assists human communication using natural spoken language for people who do not share a common language. The speech translator is in use in Iraq by humanitarian services, to improve communication with the local population.
Mr. Peres concluded his visit by driving ‘the virtual car’ (pictured above), a new driving simulator that enables social communication between cars on the road – to decrease accidents and improve road safety.

Links:
ibm.com (Hebrew): President Peres visits IBM Haifa Research Lab
ThePeople.com (Hebrew): Presidential Visit

In the picture below (from left to right): Mr. Shimon Peres, Israeli President, Dr. Aya Soffer, HRL (both sitting), Yossi Shoval, Media Relations Mgr. and Mr. Meir Nissensohn, GM, IBM Israel (far right).

Social networking

Published November 17, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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Finally, a post about social networking.
After countless posts, comments and articles about social networking, I decided it was time to write something of my own. We’ll start with a definition of a social network service: A social network service focuses on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the use of software [Wikipedia].
Also, Although social networking is possible in person, especially in schools or in the workplace, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other internet users and develop friendships and business relationships, too [whatissocialnetworking.com].

I’m won’t try explaining what social network is, and if I started it would take much more time than I initially allocated for this post. Social networking has many applications today, in both personal and business life. Opposed to what Knowledge@Wharton think, I think social networking are merely a phase to something much more bigger. The innovation life cycle is shortening, and I’m quite sure we’ll be seeing the next big thing pretty soon.

If you still haven’t figured out what social networking is all about, I suggest you watch this video from The Daily Show. The Rolling Stones Magazine recently interviewed John Stewart – apparently The Daily Show, and Stewart, are the most trusted name in news these days.
Which makes this hilarious video kind of a must-see TV:

Lastly, a detailed list of known social networking websites, for your pleasure.



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