networks are important slugger consults. exponential shift… a time like this has cracked open five...
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Networks are important
Slugger Consults
Exponential shift…
A time like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs.
It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
TOM STOPPARD, Arcadia (1993)
• This year ‘Generation Y’ will outnumber the Babyboomers
• 96% of them have joined a social network
• 1 out of 8 couples who married in the US in 2008 met through social network sites
• If Facebook were a country it would be 4th largest
• 80% of companies in the US use LinkedIn as their primary tool to source their employees
• Ashton Kutcher and Ellen de Generes have more Twitter followers than the populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama
• 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 brands are links to user generated content.
• 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
• Only 14% trust advertising
Some thoughts…
The secret is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made
GEORGE BURNS, actor comedian
I use not only the brains I have, but all that I can borrow
WOODROW WILSON, US President
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you are not part of the steamroller, you are part of the road
STUART BRAND, futurologist
