IEEE is convening an exclusive industry executives event, bringing together technology and industry leaders to discuss technological challenges the world is facing. IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization, is bringing together some of the world’s foremost leaders in the tech world for an intimate networking dinner, to discuss some of the pressing technological challenges the world is facing. Brian is so excited to share his ideas and research with the prestigious IEEE leadership community.
It’s a Small World After All: The Top Global Web Trends
Social media is a global phenomenon indeed. Certainly Facebook, Twitter, Google+, in their own way, each make the world a much smaller place. The distance between any two people is shrinking as the number of network connections continues to proliferate. I’m sure you’ve heard at one point or another, that the distance between two people in an offline world is six degrees. In a recent Facebook study for example, the average degree of separation between two people in the network…
Going Global by Going Local: Why localization improves engagement
Part 15 in an ongoing series that serves as the prequel to my new book, The End of Business as Usual… The world is becoming a much smaller place. But even with social media contributing to a globally connected society, businesses that continue to take a global approach to social content and engagement may be missing opportunities for greater resonance and relevance. While a global presence is necessary for any organization hoping to connect with customers around the world, placing…
The State of Social Media Around the World 2010
If you were to look at Social Media the United States and many other parts of the world, you would believe that the world of Social Media was flat, dominated by social continents including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube, and Flickr. As we zoom in, we visualize other established and emerging social services that depict provinces and outlying settlements of our social atlas. Upon publishing the original Conversation Prism, which was the culmination of a year’s work documenting and organizing the…
Facebook Slowly Taking Over the World, Now at 250 Million Users
Mark Zuckerberg proudly announced on the Facebook blog this week that the popular social network continues its global dominance jumping from 200 million to 250 million users. To commemorate the milestone, Facebook created a map that visualizes connections and adoption worldwide. Zuckerberg credited you and me and the social graphs we weave with its phenomenal growth, “Each person who joins makes Facebook better by adding a presence to the site that friends and family can connect with and feel closer…
