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Social Media Quality and Quantity

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:18:35 +0000

Social Media Quality and Quantity

A recent study revealed that social media marketers are still hung up on size; still worried about quantity over quality. We still seem to be getting it wrong. The social media marketing ego is to have 50,000 followers on Twitter or a Facebook page with over 120,000 Likes. At first, sure, these big numbers may seem impressive. But will these useless numbers roll out any leads?

Things to think about:

• How are you helping your clients or even your own company via social media?
• And you do know that if your product or service is awful… social media won’t do a damn thing to help your bottom line?

Social media has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate. Social media is about connecting to people and connecting people. Social media is shrinking the emotional distance between company and consumer. Social media is about being absolutely awesome in product and service, and then giving your consumers somewhere to share the word about this awesomeness.

5 Interesting Facts About the Internet

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:15:55 +0000

Interesting Facts About the Internet

So what’s the real-jargon rich definition for the internet? The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. – Wikipedia.

But who didn’t know that. Well, its official, the majority us use the Internet more than we watch TV. Have a look at these fun facts we found about the World Wide Web.

Top 5 interesting facts about the internet

1. The first message ever to be transmitted was LOG. Why? The user had attempted to type LOGIN, but the network crashed after the enormous load of data of the letter G
2. The first emoticon is commonly credited to Kevin Mackenzie in 1979. It was a simple smiley face.
3. The first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.
4. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
5. There are 152 million blogs on the Internet. There are 153 million blogs on the Internet. There are 154 million blogs on the Internet.

The History Of Computers

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:36:53 +0000

The History of Computers

So what’s the real jargon-rich definition for a computer? A computer is a programmable machine designed to automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. A general purpose computer has four main components: the arithmetic logic unit (ALU), the control unit, the memory, and the input and output devices (collectively termed I/O). - Wikipedia

But who doesn’t know that right?

Top 10 interesting facts about computers:

The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613.

George Stibitz is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer.

Computers using vacuum tubes as their electronic elements were in use throughout the 1950s.

A computer does not need to be electronic, nor even have processors, nor RAM, nor even a hard disk.

The first personal computer was the Berkeley Enterprises “Simon” which sold for $300 in 1950.

Windows was originally named Interface Manager.

IP means both Internet Protocol and Intellectual Property. Thus when you say a company is involved with IP, nobody will know what you are talking about.

The precision quartz clock in a computer cannot keep accurate time.

By the time humans are born they have all the brain cells they will ever need – oh wait, that ain’t about computers.

Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.