There certainly is a lot of commentary regarding the usefulness of social media marketing, as well as the numbers of people that are engaging in the conversation. According to recent studies conducted by PostRank, we have been able to illustrate what is happening in the Internet’s social community — how people are communicating, what is changing, and where people are doing the talking.
Marketing research firm Nielsen has some stats on the habits of UK social networking users, and it once again shows that social networks, for the most part, adhere to the Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule).
The power of collaborative effort, especially relevant to us Pittsburghers. People can report on the road and snow conditions on streets close to where they live.
TED Talks: While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
In an effort to add one more story to the list of reasons why Facebook already rules the world and can stop trying, we find that Facebook is the social-network-login of choice by nearly 2-to-1.