Are you are still wondering whether Social Media is a revolution or a just a passing craze? This video by Erik Qualman is brilliant and will surprise you, maybe even shock you!

The Social Media revolution has changed the dynamics of online interaction forever and has impacted our offline activities in multiple ways as well, and will continue to evolve.

The numbers of people connected and interconnected are staggering and are continually increasing to amaze us all. The lightening speed with which ideas and thoughts are now spread from one person to another over Social Media platforms, over mobile devices, time zones, and without any of the traditional gatekeepers, has opened vast new opportunities for marketers online and internationally.

Welcome to the Social Media Evolution!

Love to hear your thoughts. (read more…)

Thanks to Jolie O’Dell of Mashable for posting this YouTube video today of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, describing what’s on the horizon for Facebook users.

Very exciting to hear that soon we will have plugins to create more connectivity on our sites! (read more…)

Facebook is ever evolving! It took a while to get over inviting your friends to become your fans on your Fan Page. Did you find that too? The term “fan” is unusual in a business context for many of us.

Today, the world’s largest social network is in the process of changing “Become a Fan” to “Like”. Why the change? (read more…)

Do you really want to attend Social Media Success Summit 2010 but just cannot afford it?  Now you can win free tickets (and it’s super easy)! See  Free Ticket Contest

This is the web’s largest online conference dedicated to help businesses succeed with social media marketing. (read more…)

Did you realize your Facebook Fan Page profile picture can be as big as this?

[Have updated this post as the new size is 540 pixels high by 180 pixels wide.]

Very generous of Facebook to give us all this valuable space on their site – the second most popular site on the globe! (Alexa)

A picture is worth a thousand words! And all this space is free!

How to Make the Best Use of this Free Space

1. Do this first – upload your full-size profile picture – 540 pixels high and 180 pixels wide. Grab your designer or Photoshop friend!

2. Keep your branding consistent. On your Fan Page, Facebook allows you to promote your products or services – so go for it!

3. Include a photo of you in your profile picture – its about connecting with people.

4. Include your core offering so your visitors can see immediately how you can help them. (read more…)

Make it part of your daily routine and – most importantly – part of your daily marketing activities to tweet and update your Facebook fan page and profile status.

Why is this important?

You are creating instant visibility for yourself. Your updates go out – on Twitter to the Twitter stream of all following you and on Facebook to your news feed and will be seen by your friends or fans respectively.

Your new daily routine will also give you the opportunity to share your knowledge (link to your blog post) or link to useful information (on someone else’s blog). This will build your relationships and position you as a valuable resource or an authority in your field. (read more…)

Your first strategic step towards mastering the Social Media sites to market your service or product online is to decide what you want to achieve. First ask yourself:

• What result do I want?
• When will I accomplish this by?
• How many minutes will I allocate to this each day?

Be as specific as possible so your results are measurable. Why am I asking you to do this? So you don’t fall into the time wasting trap and you know where you are going. Entrepreneurs can’t afford to waste their time. You know how easy it is to become distracted on the internet so begin with the clear intention of using your time to achieve a specific result.

Tip: As you kick off, work on one project at a time to avoid becoming overwhelmed and keep yourself sharply focused.

You want to increase the traffic to your blogsite by how much? (Check your stats now so you can measure your results later.) Or is your plan to have one thousand fans on your Facebook fan page at the end of eight weeks? (read more…)