This is crazy. About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, five billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets.
Classroom shyness is like a blackhole: Once silence takes over, it never lets go! In a class of hundreds, the fraction of students who speak up is small, and a still tinier fraction contribute regularly.
For schools hit hard by the recession, Twitter is an inexpensive solution to the growing problem of increasing class sizes. It is a tried-and-true platform to let conversations flourish.
Watch this video with Dr. Monica Ranking of the University of Texas at Dallas. The Twitter Experiment:
When I saw this conceptual video I was amazed what the possibilities are for new technology. The team at Bonnier R&B Beta Lab and BERG tries to make the experience of reading magazines on digital devices to something extraordinary.
They want to capture the essence of magazine reading, which people have been enjoying for decades. I really like this product! What do you think?
Google Wave has got lots of intension lately. If you haven’t understood why you should use it yet this video might help you. It takes 2 minutes of your time, well worth it. I’m still struggling to get new friends on Google Wave so if you’re interested to try it out just make a comment and tell me your e-mail. I will send you an invite.
This is how Google Wave looks like when you’re logged in. Please add me on viktor.nord@googlewave.com if you have an account.
I watched a seminar with Teo Hären from Interesting.org about how you can improve your creativity. You have to start practice! And yes, you can practice to be more creative. Watch this seminar (in swedish) or visit his homepage. It’s worth every minute!
If you aren’t convinced yet that social media is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate please watch these stunning videos. I think you might change your mind.
Even thought some of the facts in the videos are controversial you will have to face the facts that social media is bigger than we think.
By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia
Yet, some sources say China’s QZone is larger with over 300 million using their services (Facebook’s ban in China plays into this)
comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network
2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum
% of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees….80%
The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama
80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
Wikipedia has over 13 million articles…some studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
54% = Number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily
Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0
25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them
78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
Only 14% trust advertisements
Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
90% of people that can TiVo ads do
Hulu has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009
25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video…on their phone
According to Jeff Bezos 35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available
24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media
More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.
Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy Listening first, selling second
Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser
I was interviewed by Founders Alliance 26th of may 2009. Unfortunately the interview was in swedish. The topic was entrepreneurship. Hopefully I will give an interview in english soon. Here is the link of the video if the above link doesn’t work: Viktor Nord talks about entrepreneurship . If you have some time of and want to help me with some votes for a competition I would be glad. Here is the link – Link for voting . Have a great day and thanks for reading/watching/voting.
24 years old entrepreneur. Started my first company by the age of 16. Since 2007 I've been working with my recruitment company called Sverige-Norge.se. Board member at Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden, board member at Ung Företagsamhet, spoke person at Svenskt Näringsliv, mentor for young entrepreneurs, speaker and trainer in leadership, consultant. You can read more about me or find me on the social networks such as LinkedIN, Twitter, Facebook, Google or Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden
