Posts Tagged ‘Social Network’

3 Cool Kids You Should Stalk This Week #7 — College Edition

Happy Monday, kids! This week is another cool kids of college edition featuring more of the brightest young talent that are getting ready to enter the business world. Remember that you can always go back and catch up on the cool kids you missed from previous weeks as well. Enjoy… – nate 3 Cool Kids You Should Stalk This Week #6: College Edition Chelsea Kovak Twitter: @chelseakovak Blog: ChelseaKovak.wordpress.com Other: LinkedIn Stalkers Debrief: Chelsea Kovak is one of Ohio University’s shining young stars. She’s a communication major who was also chairs the Ralph and Luci Schey Sales Centre — an organization that helps more than 200 students learn the skills needed to move into a career in B-to-B sales roles. She’s currently practicing her tread out in Redwood Shores, CA as a sales intern at Merced Systems. Chelsea is definitely a mover and shaker on the rise, and you ought to keep your eye on her. When you stalk, ask about her love affair with the Dawg Pound. Lawrence Prather Twitter: @Jeenyice Blog: On conversationalmarketinglabs.com Other: LinkedIn Stalkers Debrief: Lawrence Prather is a student up at the University of Akron, with ties to the Taylor Institute of Direct Marketing. He also interns at Incept (former client) helping to create and publish content for two different collaborative blogs. His Twitter handle is pretty accurate in that Lawrence is a genius when it comes to keeping a pulse on all of the new technology that’s out there cause the interwebz to buzz. When you stalk, ask him about how he helped to organize former President Ronald Reagan’s funeral out in DC. Chelsea Castle Twitter: @chelseacastle Site: chelseajordan.wordpress.com Other: LinkedIn About: Aside from being a 4th year journalism at Ohio State University, Chelsea Castle seems to have her hand in just everything these days. If [...]

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The Impact of Brand in the Rise of Google Plus

Yeah, I know. More with the Google Plus stuff. Humpf. The truth is, there’s now more new users coming on to Google Plus faster than every other network that came before it. Maybe you’ve already seen this graph on the web? So, 24 days to 20 million users. Neato. While lots of people are blown away by that number, I’m not really surprised to see Google Plus’s trajectory has buried the other two social network giants. Maturing as Technology Adopters Remember that Google Plus isn’t really even in the same bucket as Twitter and Facebook, as far as adoption is concerned. It’s 2011, and now more than ever before, folks like you and I are very comfortable with adopting new technology. Adoption has become an expected and exciting part of our cultural norms. And, why not? We’re digital people now. New and exciting tools seem to appear out of thin air and from every direction these days and lots of them work to in some way connect us with other humans. Think about it — in the last few weeks since Google Plus exploded on our screens, we’ve also been riding the buzz around Spotify, Apple’s OSX Lion and the powerful new and slender Macbook Air’s. Since 5 years ago when Facebook was still one of the new kids on the block, we’ve all been trained to adopt new digital toys without putting up much of a fight. The Social Network Dark Ages Remember that for most consumers 2008 was a period of the social media dark ages. For the majority of consumers, Facebook was still undiscovered country and Twitter was a sound the birds made in the early morning hours.  At that time, most consumers would have looked at you like a deer in headlights if you would have asked them to [...]

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