Last week, Google CEO Larry page was the keynote speaker at I/O and shared some interesting insights.
The insights weren’t about Google+, Google Glass or anything like that. No, these insights had to do with him personally.
Having read many ‘too good to be true’ tips and trick on monetizing anything via social media, I’m a little weary when something is presented as ‘the next big opportunity’.
This infographic shows the opportunities YouTube offers. One little sentence struck me:
“20% of respondents are making a full-time living from YouTube activities”
Now we all know how popular YouTube is and not just within one age group (though young people certainly favor this social medium). But 20% out of a little over a 100 respondents making a living off their YouTube income, that’s a lot.
Could YouTube really be ‘the next big thing’ then? Continue Reading…
Sometimes, I feel like the Church tries to be “epic,” but it comes out like this:
[via YouTube]
That was Patton Oswalt performing a rather hilarious-if-ridiculous improv bit for a recent episode of Parks and Recreation.
Maybe it’s just me being cynical, but I feel like the Church does stuff like this sometimes. In an attempt to hype something up, to make it the absolute best, we overcomplicate it. We stuff the Gospel with so much “presentation” that we smother the truth of the Gospel and dilute its power.
A few weeks ago, the most excellent ChurchMag author Rachel Blom posted about Facebook Edgerank and how it works.
The author of the infographic Rachel cited contacted me about a follow-up he had done, helping users understand how news feed stories are filtered.
Great stuff!
Check it out:
It’s been a while since I had dug into Pinterest.
The last few months I’ve not only brought ChurchMag’s Pinterest account up to the activity that it should be, but I’ve also stumbled across a few things that has helped me get more out of it.
Although the hype and boom of Pinterest has settled down some, they’ve begun to add some cool features that aid in its use.
First and foremost, would be Pinterest Analytics:
A couple of years ago, no one had ever heard of infographics. Now, they’re a very effective way of communicating info…and of drawing traffic to your site.
The infographic below shows some interesting and some curious facts on the effectiveness of using infographics (why on earth is an infographic on beards and trustworthiness so popular?), but for me the biggest take away is that posts with infographics are tweeted almost 600 times as often as traditional posts.
That’s big. Continue Reading…
I have a confession.
Never got Dawson’s Creek. The song infuriated me. Didn’t much like Felicity; the title was a misnomer for me. For some reason, though, Veronica Mars ensnared me. There was something about the spunky high school detective portrayed by Kristen Bell that drew atypical fans in.
I also admit to being slightly dejected when it was canceled. The show had its ubiquitous pack of fans who lobbied to get the cancellation rescinded, but as usually happens, the ratings were what really matter to studio execs (understandably so), and it never came back. Rumors of a movie never materialized.
Till now.
Infographics are big and rightly so.
The stats show they can draw a lot of traffic to your site and get information across effectively.
But making making them isn’t so easy.
The info below gives solid advice on how to make an effective infographic, especially with a team.
I remember it like yesterday, far before PayPal mobile payments cam onto the scene.
I was surfing the web, and saw a link to a website. Some online auction site called “eBay” that could allow me get stuff for pennies on the dollar. Yeah, right.
I signed up, and on a whim, I put in a bid for an authentic Phat Farm shirt (don’t judge me; PF was the junk back then). Opening bid was $5.00. After familiarizing myself with the way the bidding process worked, I put in $10.00. The bidding on the item would end in three hours.
Three hours — and $7 — later, while fighting back tears of joy, I found that I had just discovered the holy grail of online commerce.
So, in case you’re been under a rock or just got back from partying outside the Vatican, Google has announced its plans to euthanize Google Reader in July. The fury has begun to die down on social media, but rest assured, those who were hard core users of Reader won’t forget this anytime soon. One Tweet that I saw—sorry that I don’t remember who wrote it, though I’m sure several thought along the same lines—threw Google’s unofficial motto back in its face:
What happened to “Don’t be evil”?
