WSI Social Media Strategies

Now Im sure you’ve noticed by now that your Facebook profile layout has changed quite a bit. The most notable changes are definitely the strip of photos that you’ve been recently tagged in at the top of your profile, and the new Share-box, for either your Status, Photo, Link or Image.  Another great improvement is your info. Gone is the little box where you had to write a short bio, and were able to insert a link to your website (because all of us have our own websites too…), as this has been replaced with a short summary of your where you currently live, education, employment, marital status, hometown and birth date. You can of course edit this when logged in to your account, however if you want something not to show, you will have to remove it completely, as you don’t have a ‘Show’ or ‘Don’t Show’ option. Read more...

So you consider yourself a Social Media Know-it-all? Or are you just interested in where the whole craze for online communication originated from? Well test yourself by checking out this infograph which gives a quick insight to the last 40 years of Social media. From where it all started in 1971 when the first email was sent to a computer only an arms length away from the sender, to the close of the Japan vs. Denmark soccer game in the 2010 World Cup where Twitter users were tweeting at an astonishing rate of 3,283 tweets per second! I don’t even have to mention the mind boggling effect Facebook has had on us, and how it has grown since its launch in 2004. See how many of these facts below you were already familiar with, and decide for yourself whether you still qualify as a ‘SoMe-Wiz’! Read more...

So it feels to you as if every third person you come across has a Facebook profile? Well, in fact the actual stats aren’t very far from that, with 1 in every 13 people in the world having a profile, and in the U.S.A. its narrowed down to 3 out every 4 people. That’s 147 million users in America! And the scary thing is that almost 70% of all Facebook users are from OUTSIDE the U.S.A! Read more...