“Social media has changed the way we do almost everything. We make buying decisions, find jobs, play games, listen to music and learn socially. But for business it’s clearly been a more challenging shift. Engaging in social media requires a fundamental change to the way businesses function and think. No wonder so many are slow to embrace social media and devote budgets to it.”
Watching Facebook go from an insignificant little upstart to an industry-dominating juggernaut has been fascinating, as has watching something as inherently geeky as Internet social networking become an accepted and normal part of life and business. Facebook has become an integral part of how some of businesses, including some of my clients, portray themselves to the world.
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On 16 April, a few seconds after 11:28 PM, Adelaide was shaken by an earth tremor. Online discussion of this event began seconds later (the first Twitter posts are timestamped 11:28:10), conducted by people in Adelaide who were in front of their computers or holding smartphones as the ground shook.
Since last October (when we asked rhetorically “Social Networking – what’s it all about?“) we’ve fielded a lot of enquiries about Internet social networking and how exactly such services can help small businesses and their operators. We’ve found some great resources at UK site Marketing Donut for getting started using online social networking to help [...]
Use of Internet Social Networking – sites and services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others – in Australia is exploding. Online Social Networks are changing how people spend their leisure time, and it’s changing the way people work as well. Want to know more?
Thanks to everyone who attended last night’s seminar on Social Networking. It was a pleasure and I offer my thanks to Hayes Knight for the opportunity to participate in this year’s Seminar Series.
In today’s hyper-connected world, communicating effectively is more important than ever before, and the channels available to us for communication are growing by the day. In both private and personal spheres “Social Networking” is the latest Internet phenomenon. But what exactly is it? If you’re curious but have been swamped by the jargon, you should attend Social Networking – what is it, and how can it help me? the next in the Hayes Knight Seminar Series, hosted by Simon Garlick of Chilli Chocolate Marketing.