some very interesting statistics about the social media - article reviews

This video on youtube has been put up for a few days already, and many people have talked about it! Here is the original blog post, and below are some of the interesting statistics about the social media and the impact it has on people/the world/what is going on!

Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think

Is Social Media a Fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the Social Media Revolution: watch the 4:23min movie with some cool statistics about the social media revolution, like:

• # 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
• # 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
• # 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
• # Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser
• # In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media
  

Continue to read these statistics(I have just selected some of the most interesting ones) - Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think - via the socialnomics weblog online

Social media Optimization - revisited rules, and the power of social media - case study

Below are 2 articles tweeted and re-tweeted a lot these days, that deal with social media - one is a review of some principles of the Social Media Optimization and the other has more observations about a case study of social media marketing.

16 Rules For Social Media Optimization Revisited

1. Increase Your Linkability
2. Make Tagging and Bookmarking Easy
3. Reward Inbound Links
4. Help Your Content Travel
5. Encourage the Mashup
6. Be a User Resource, Even if it Doesn’t Help You
7. Reward Helpful and Valuable Users
8. Participate
9. Know How to Target Your Audience
10. Create Content
11. Be Real
12. Don’t Forget Your Roots, Be Humble
13. Don’t Be Afraid to Try New Things, Stay Fresh
14. Develop a SMO Strategy
15. Choose Your SMO Tactics Wisely
16. Make SMO part of your process and best practices

Read the entire article about the Social Media Optimization here.

The Power of Social Media Marketing (Case Study)

Some good ways to measure social media marketing are:

• Visitors
• Leads
• Backlinks
• Tweets (Twitter)
• Blog Postings
• News Articles & TV

In order to promote something via social media you need at least two factors:

1. Great Content
2. Social Media Marketing Guru

Read the entire article, which contains a good case study of the Social Media Marketing, here.