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Trend One: Social Mobile Trend Two: Socialization of Search Trend Three: Geo-Targeting of Social Media Marketing Trend Four: Social Commerce Trend Five: Social Gaming Trend Six: Global Magazine Super Blogs Trend Seven: Global Micro Niche Business

"The first is social media is much more than a fad (which you have probably read about, as well.) It's not just that Twitter has been at the heart of the Arab Spring and other social and political developments of recent years. Nor that Facebook has acquired so many millions of users all over the world. It's the fact that people use these new media in such a variety of ways it becomes impossible to distinguish business from pleasure. Wikipedia, for instance, has shown that people not only long to discover, they want to share. The psychological effect on business and public life has been immense; in fact I would say that there is a new business climate of openness"

From Angela Maiers. Gary's social media count is an embeddable page that shows you how fast things are growing and going in the social media world.

great graph to embed on the wiki page about how the world is connecting online.

"Workshop shows advantages of social media in job hunting"

"Federal employees are increasingly turning to social media websites for work and personal use, particularly as more agencies lift restrictions on access, according to a new survey"

Social media in current news.

I'm not sure if I can really use this but it gives me a definition of the social media

The Keep America Beautiful campaign is adding a new website to their name. They already have one for the organization, but are now building on it with a website that is called a social volunteer hub. This helps people who want to start their own clean-up project. Through this website they reach out with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to gain more attention nationally.

This is how movements now happen! Redefining Beautiful: One Girl at a Time has girls not wearing makeup on Tuesdays. T-shirts and, of course, social media, characterize what these girls are doing (and the guys who support them.) For pundits who think social media is a negative, this is an example of how this generation redefines the world using social networking to spread statements of a generation more quickly than books can be printed.

Read about this trend. It would make a GREAT movie.

"This weekend saw a number of prominent technology observers questioning the value of social networks, including This Week in Tech host Leo Laporte, who penned a thoughtful post on why he's leaving Google Buzz behind. Laporte said he feels that his last four years of social networking use have been an "an immense waste of time," but I think he and others are missing the larger point. Too many people seem to be trying to use social networks for media and marketing activities instead of the core reason such networks exist: namely, to connect people."

Web 2.0 background

A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where people are limited to the passive viewing of content.

This source gives more background and information on how the Web 2.0 was created and formed.

The history of Social Media and Social Networking

Social media and Leisure - Games, Facebook, etc.

A new CareerBuilder.com survey found that 22% of all hiring managers have combed through social media profiles to help evaluate potential hires, up from just 11% two years ago.

Interesting information about the evolution of Social Media/Netorking

This article talks about the positives and negatives social networking has on education.

This is a newsletter focusing on the role of social networking in the Egyptian Revolution. This has ties to Government and social networking through the ant-government protesters that caused riots, which were made possible by social networking communications

Pew research - Social media and people involved in online communities more likely to be more socially engaged and has an impact on the ability of groups to bring attention to issues.