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Mark My Words — 7 Reasons Why Twitter Will Win

We’re so enthralled with the new niche-networks and content sites. While these shinny objects seem to grab our attention and fast adoption, just how long will our infatuation with any new player last? Take Pinterest for example.  TechCrunch reported yesterday that data from comScore seems to show that the hype and attention for the new niche network may be starting to fall off in a steep downward trend. As of January 19th, Google Plus touts over  90 million users. According to this infographic, the large majority of them are students located in major cities like Bangalore, New York and London. However, most reports from Google fail to define what type of activity determines a “user”. Let’s not forget that Gmail is becoming the email platform of choice among college age kids. Do the numbers below make sense now? Old News Just Isn’t That Sexy Since Twitter’s inception in March of 2006 and the intense buzz generated during the 2007 rendition of Austin’s SXSW Interactive festival, Twitter has run in the background of the Interwebz and the social business industry and for the most part, growing steadily under the radar. While it’s still very much debatable as to how many people actively engage on Twitter daily, numbers from January of this year point to nearly 500 million registered accounts on the micro-blogging network. In truth, we don’t like to talk about Twitter these days. In fact, some bloggers have the opinion that Twitter simply isn’t the wonder-network it used to be. You might say that the wave of our fascination and hype around tweeting has all but dried up. Mark My Words — 7 Reasons Why Twitter Will Win Still, when hedging Twitter against all other new and popular platforms, my gut instinct tells me that eventually … Twitter will win. Here are some key reasons to back my audacious claims: 1.  Twitter has built an echo-system of dependency. Twitter’s founders made a very smart move [...]

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What the Plus! Guy Kawasaki on Why Google+ is for Passion

If you’re an business-savvy internet user, you already know about Guy. The video below is about 16 minutes long — much longer than most of the interviews I typically record, but well worth your time and attention. After talking with him, I understand why there’s always a flurry of activity that surrounds Guy Kawasaki. He is enchanting. Guy’s new eBook What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us is a solid read with incredibly helpful tips. His explanation on why Google Plus is about passion was enlightening for me. I find his own passion for the network to be contagious and and I think you will too. Disclosure: I make a few pennies through Amazon’s Affiliate program with the widget below. With that out of the way, I did mean I said in the intro. I learned a ton of helpful new new tricks on how to use Google Plus from Guy’s book. It’s and easy read and full of good tactical examples and tactical advice on how to use Google Plus like a to identify people that share the sames passions as you do.               nateriggsLike what you just read and want to get my posts delivered to your inbox? SUBSCRIBE HEREMore Posts Follow Me:

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Embrace Disruption – My Slides from #PLA12

Perhaps you’ve already  heard that the presses have stopped. The once coveted print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannia has become the latest victim of disruptive technology. After 244 years of print, what’s arguable one of the most revered sources of sharable information will no longer go to the presses. Rather, a rebirth is in process, focused on pushing shorter volumes of content to the web, tablets and e-readers, complete with a much more affordable online subscription model and includes multimedia objects like video and infographics. Thus is the way of disruption. Out with the old and in with the new. Adapt, or die. Embrace Disruption The thing about disruptive technologies is that they can’t be ignored. Eventually, innovation will win. Once consumers decide to adopt a new technology, businesses must learn how to provide what they already do in a new, and often more efficient way. While it can be scary, disruption is indeed a good thing. In recent years, we see disruption everywhere. With the literal explosion of social media technologies, mobile devices and everything in between, consumer mindsets have been altered by these new shiny objects gaining fast momentum and popularity. The choice? Adapt, or die. 2012 Public Library Association Conference I was fortunate to have the chance to present along side Julie Theado of the Columbus Public Library and Johannes Neuer of the New York Public Library today at the PLA 2012 conference in Philadelphia. It’s always an honor to sit next to such talented professionals and speak to a room of forward-thinking leaders. Dear #PLA12 Session Attendees First, thank you for your ears and attention. I know it was an early talk. As promised, you’ll find my presentation deck embedded below as well as a list of resources that I mentioned during the talk. Please feel free to take the slides to jog your memories on what we discussed, and by [...]

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