Fewer than 8,000 people in the world actually have a pair but, wow, the boo-birds of the Luddite class are already flappin' and screechin' with disdain over the very thought of Google Glass and its new technology!
The contempt prior to investigation has even reached the Old Gray Lady with a headline like this: "Google Glass Picks Up Early Signal: Keep Out!"
Whoa...quite certain this is not the kind of PR Google had in mind when it selected its initial class of Google Glass Explorers.
One has to admit: LinkedIN, the social platform intended to connect the white-collar crowd, has come a long way in its first decade, from a hyped-up electronic Rolodex to a truly viable social platform.
With over 218 million users and and nearly $325 million in reported revenue for the first quarter of 2013, LinkedIN has earned its place among the major social platforms with hard work, determination and a dogged effort to grow, change, adapt and become relevant.
All the endless hours of toil, sweat, anxiety and perseverance will pay off May 22 when one of four finalists is named the 2013 Distinguished Entrepreneur of Southwest Florida.
The elegant banquet at which the winner will be named is set for May 22 at Florida Gulf Coast University's Cohen Center. Tickets are available here.
This year's four finalists include:
- Mark Loren, owner of Mark Loren Designs, Ft. Myers. FL.
- Ben Fleischer, owner of Pyure Brands, Naples, FL.
- Pamela Oakes, owner of Pam’s Motor City Automotive, Ft. Myers, FL.
- David Branton, owner of Turbine Generator Maintenance, Inc., Cape Coral, FL.
Still using PowerPoint? Yea, sure, sometimes it's still the best way to illustrate a talk or presentation.
But, of course, it's cumbersome to collaborate with someone else on a PowerPoint presentation, the back and forth of email gets tedious.
Relax, Relevanza co-founder Birgit Pauli-Haack upload to our SocialMediaTechnology Tumblr an easy, step-by-step process for putting your favorite PP presentation up on Google Drive for easy collaboration, sharing and ultimate utility
"Inbound marketing" is the latest buzz phrase for a very important - THE most important - aspect of social media: community building.
Inbound marketing means, in its simplest definition, "conversation." The give and take between companies, organizations, individuals and those who engage with them: customers, constituents, supporters and cheerleaders.
Without conversation, engagement - the give and take (or give and give) - social media exists only as just another box of broadcast tools.
Content-engagement-conversation-community-expansion. That's how it works...or should!
Twitter sent a memo (seems an odd phrase) to journalists late afternoon April 29 warning attacks on journalists' accounts could continue and recommending specific steps to increase security.
The memo comes in the wake of last week's attack on the Associated Press (AP) Twitter account which resulted in a tweet saying explosions erupted at The White House and the President was injured. Moments later the Stock Market suffered a significant plunge, generated mostly by computer-driven stock trades
Happy Monday and here's an interesting little artful graphic to get your brain working after a weekend of rest (we hope).
Published a couple of weeks ago by InternetServiceProviders.org, the graph suggests women and men play and work on the social channels altogether differently.
For example, according to the research, 40 million more women than men user Twitter. Fifty-eight percent of the Facebook user base is female and 62 percent of the sharing on Facebook is by women. But, even so, 80 percent of the female Facebook users say friends annoy them.
To no one's surprise, 70 percent of the Pinterest user base is female
Sixty-four percent of the Google+ user base is male but only 25 percent of them actually use it as a social network.
"I never cared for those cookie-cutter web site shoppers who only want a Number One spot on Google Search and want it with a single key phrase, like “real estate” (in a town with 7,000 Realtors) and want it instantly, without any sense of content or context: 'Water removal,' or 'pet grooming."
So explains Relevanza co-founder, Birgit Pauli-Haack, who also owns Pauli Systems, an online business solutions firm.
"The conversation has changed and I am very happy about that."
Birgit explains her philosophy - the Pauli Systems and Relevanza philosophy - in a piece on the Pauli Systems site.
Business owners and managers realize today that “being online” is part of their business and content is king.
Truth be told, most of us probably prefer the InterWebzes and the social spaces there amongst to be a bit on the wild and wooly side; perhaps more than a little unruly with information flowing freely along the ethernetzes as it will.
But, of course, we all have the responsibility also to preserve some integrity of truth with that information. So it was with great gnashing of teeth the reaction last week that some erroneous and egregious 411 got spread all over the social spaces in the wake of the Boston bombings.
Journalists most certainly have a responsibility to verify reportage before blasting it out. And as reposters the rest of us need to always remember discretion is the better part of valor.
And so it goes that accuracy and truth will gain some currency as the social spaces mature and that is as it should be, without those social spaces becoming tepid or lifeless.
Efforts to improve accuracy are already underway - and, actually, have been for quite a while.
Oh dear, the kids are not gonna be happy about this.
Two out of three adults in the U.K. now have social profiles and that number rose signficantly in 2012, up from just over half in 2011.
At least, that's the findings of a report on U.K. Adults' Media Use and Attitudes published by Ofcom, the telecom regulator in the U.K.
"In 2012 just under two in three (64%) adult internet users said they had a social networking profile, a significant increase on 59% in 2011," explains the report. "This growth has been driven by users aged 55-64, 35% of whom now have profiles, compared to 24% in 2011.
