Have you every looked up from their desk and realised that you haven't uttered a word to anyone in over an hour? Maybe longer? 

It occurred to me recently when my phone hadn't rung for 3 hours. I'd been communicating with lots of people en masse during this period, mostly by email but also on Twitter and Facebook. But I hadn't actually spoken to anyone; not a peep.

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And as if by magic, here's another really useful infographic outlining the dominant social networking sites around the world.

However, please approach with caution...

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My buddy at Mindshare and were asked to talk at a digital summit about social content. Pretty broad brief.

What we started to realise when we thought about that concept of 'social content' is that not all social content is good. Some of it sucks. The thing about great social content is that it'll be sociable.

And if brands want to build personal relationships, then they need to be sociable too. 

My last comment would be that prezi completely rocks. Check it out at http://prezi.com. That's how we made the presentation. Cool, huh?

Sports Business Magazine set out their best websites of 2010 awards a couple of months ago. I was asked to be on the panel and added some suitably vague comments to the discussion. 

After all, what is a website? 

"No! I don't want to play anymore!"

I've seen lots of presentations about social media, viral video, YouTube this & Facebook that, and many of them reference that only a handfull of the most popular shared videos (i.e. videos on YouTube) are created by users. 

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Perhaps this could be a good way to get more kids into learning about history?

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Facebook_Over_The_Ages.zip (145 KB)

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