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35 Great Social Media Infographics 35 Great Social Media Infographics [Note: I recently updated this compilation to include some more recent visualizations... you can see it here.] Here’s a collection of terrific social media infographics that might come in handy. As you probably know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form and they act as a kind of visual shorthand, making information easy to understand and consume. With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008 The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.

With LinkedIn Signal, Twitter And LinkedIn Collide LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner has just unveiled LinkedIn Signal at TechCrunch Disrupt, a new feature that neatly marries the worlds of LinkedIn and Twitter and allows users to apply the professional social network’s filters to Twitter’s firehose. Think of it as a window into Twitter (and LinkedIn’s updates), through the eyes of LinkedIn. LinkedIn Signal, which is currently in limited beta, allows users to sort through Twitter updates of LinkedIn members (you opt in by syncing your accounts) and the site’s own updates on a very granular level. The feature’s page offers three main panes, on the left side there is a dynamic list of filter options, the mid-section shows the stream of relevant updates and the column on the right shows “trending links” that may be relevant. So far, there are 8 main filters: network, industry, company, the date the update was published, by geography, school and hash tags (all powered by LinkedIn’s structured profile data). So why does this matter?

Internet Marketing Blog 14 fantastic things we found on the internet this week This round-up covers a whole two weeks’ worth of brilliant entertainments, distractions and hijinks that we found on the internet. Yes the round-up took the extended Easter weekend off. Five Reasons Why Corporate Blogs Fail - Technorati Guru Corporate blogging has become incredibly popular in the business to business (B2B) sector. Industries that were once thought inhospitable to blogs, these tools are not only popping up but are making a profound difference in marketing, relationship cultivation and client interaction. Yet too often, the full potential isn’t realized. Corporate blogs either don’t deliver on expectations or, worse, are left to suffer a quiet, lonely death.

Twittoria: That euphoric moment when a celeb tweets little old you Account Director Sara Robinson muses on celebrity encounters on Twitter Twitter’s brilliant isn’t it? It’s great for networking, information dissemination and – best of all – the random requests at the times when Google just won’t do and you need a real live human being’s opinion. We regularly tweet asking for recommendations for everything from a good curtain seamstress to restaurants in far flung cities, and the good people of the Twitterverse always rise to the occasion. We recently took a journalist to visit a client project in Brighton and in a city awash with fine eateries we took to Twitter to find out the place to impress a key editor.

The Value of Social Media [STATS] Social media plays an important role in our lives and has drastically changed the world in ways more than one; It is now one of our important platforms of communication – we live and breathe it everyday, we rely on them for information and may even feel awkward not checking our Facebook account for notifications for 24 hours. Whether B2B or B2C, every industry is able to leverage on social media for their business. As people spend more time on social media online, ad dollars into social networking sites have also been increasing. That is why businesses need to always be ahead of the curve. If your competitor is already on board, you have much catching up to do! And if you were thinking that visitors will first go to your site for information about your company… Omniture proves you wrong as they share the value of what social media brings.

Google Docs Emulates Microsoft Word's "Track Changes" Feature At long last, Google Docs has made it easy to see changes made to documents with the announcement of a new revision history interface. The addition of this interface is just one of a litany of changes Google Docs is announcing of late. Recent additions include a text highlighting feature that appears when a co-editor is making changes, six new fonts (Droid Serif, Droid Sans, Calibri, Cambria, Corsiva and Consolas), a bunch of tweaks to spreadsheets and more. To locate said revision history, merely go to File > See revision history. There, you'll be able to see — via a time stamp in the right-hand column — who changed what in the document (you can also restore revisions).

10 Beautiful Social Media Infographics This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe, Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Infographics help communicate information in a digestible manner as they creatively present data in an understandable and engaging format. With social media growing at an ever increasing pace, there is now a wealth of data about how people interacting with one another on the web. Naturally, infographics have proven an excellent aid in expressing high volumes of social web information in a clear, visually appealing manner. Here are 10 infographics that prove as beautiful as they are interesting. Google Aims to Speed Up Web with New WebP Image File Format Google has placed a great deal of emphasis on speed for the last year or two, offering numerous tools and resources aimed at speeding things up. In fact, Google has even attempted to speed up the search engine itself with Google Instant. The speed theme continues as Google has introduced a new image format from the web, aimed at speeding up load times. It’s called WebP. What do you think of Google’s new image file format?

Automotive Social Media Marketing Every industry these days is trying to figure out how to employ social media, but the auto category is being especially scrutinized. The segment is known for its glitzy TV ads and deep pockets, but social media is a field where money will only drive you so far. The big gains seem to come from out-thinking opponents, not outspending them. So how are the big automakers doing in this new arena? As this infographic shows, there have been some triumphs, some missteps, and a lot of learning. Because of the large size of this infographic, we've broken it up into multiple smaller parts.

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How the iPad is Transforming Web Design This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. The iPad has only been on the market for six months, but already it has had an impact on the way content is created and consumed. Google URL Shortener Gets a Website We first introduced the Google URL Shortener (goo.gl) last December as part of Google Toolbar and Feedburner. Since our initial release, we’ve integrated the technology into many other Google products including News, Blogger, Maps, Picasa Web Albums, and Moderator, but people have been asking for a direct way to use the service. Today we’re giving goo.gl its own website ( of course!). We don’t intend to overload goo.gl with features, but we do want it to be the stablest, most secure, and fastest URL shortener on the web. There are many shorteners out there with great features, so some people may wonder whether the world really needs yet another. As we said late last year, we built goo.gl with a focus on quality.