Social networking has impacted our lives completely that it seems to permeate every part of our lives. This point can simply be made looking at how people get jobs nowadays.
With social media sites like LinkedIn that are specifically designed for the recruiter and job seeker all the way to Facebook and the trend of checking in on the social lives of potential new hires, our digital selves are more closely related to the non-virtual us.
I love those statistics that put the rate of something in a very specific time frame.
How many children are born every year, month, or day? What should my youth ministry budget look like next year and to spend it well, how much do I have to spend this semester or month? How much time do you invest in a blog a day, a month, or an individual post?
We now have a post on how frequently people contribute to several different social media networks.
Let me say that no two social networks are equal.
The number of Instagram users was big.
With the addition of Android into the ecosphere, the jumped even higher!
Facebook wrote a fat check and has no acquired it, but the question remains:
When I think of people who make a YouTube video dancing to one of the Billboard top 10 songs, my mind instantly goes to teenagers or women who have some extra time on their hands.
What I don’t expect is college athletes.
That might be way this video has gone viral (7.5+ million) so quickly and will make you smile.
I have to admit that I was taken back by the sheer dedication of the college students, they committed to it. This must be the result of a long car ride at the end of the season because they are polished.
I was talking with a friend on Google Hangout last night, and we spoke briefly about the Google+ and Facebook divide.
He’s a casual user, but the reason he hasn’t given it a go is the same reason I hear over and over again:
Over a period of six months we monitored the usage of all of iMinistries websites using Google Analytics.
Some results were to be expected. Others surprised us.
From these statistics we’ve come to the conclusion that the convergence of technology, social media, and design/UX create a healthy church web presence.
This month, I have been putting some extra time into my personal blog’s Facebook page and we just recently got to 100 Likes, a big deal for us.
When we hit that 100 Like mark, Facebook did something amazing, they gave us $50 in free advertisement to promote our Facebook page. I am one to never turn down something free, so I went to work on it and have been pleasantly surprised on the results.
What if Pinterest was real?
What if instead of “pinning” it was actually “stealing?”
Here’s a funny, and a little dark, video at what’s called, Pinsanity:
One of the biggest issues that photo and social media experts have been clamoring for from Pinterest, the latest social media network that has at its core a visual element, is a proper attribution with photos and graphics.
The fear is that people will pin an image on Pinterest, the attribute to the photographer will not be well represented, and after a couple of repins and likes, the origins of the image is completely lost.
The amount of money that is in photography and design work makes this need an essential for Pinterest to continue to survive.
Flickr has come along side Pinterest to improve the attributes of photos shared on Pinterest from its site. Here is a short quib from Flickr’s blog:
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