If you choose not to be a part of the Social Media revolution, you are potentially sabotaging the future of your business. The impact you can make can be quite substantial; you just need to choose to join in the Social Media revolution.

Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the number of people collaborating, researching, and interacting online through the different aspects of Social Media.

Google

1. Over 1, 000, 000, 000, 000 (one trillion) unique website’s are listed in Google.
2. Over 121 million searches are made every hour.
3. Daily page views exceed 7.2 billion.
4. Google has 19,835 employees.

YouTube

5. Over 2 billion views a day.
6. 24 hours of video are uploaded every second.
7. Average person spends 15 minutes on YouTube every day.

Facebook

8. More than 500 million active users.
9. Over 695 status updates are posted every second.
10. More than 250 million users log onto Facebook each day.
11. Average user has 130 friends.
12. Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on facebook.
13. More than 100 million people use facebook on their phones.
14. More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook.

Twitter

15. 300,000 new users sign up every day.
16. 180 million people use twitter every month.
17. Over 50 million tweets sent per day, at about 600 tweets per second.
18. 600 million searches are made on twitter every day.

Other Social Media Sites

19. Linkedin has 50 million users worldwide.
20. Wikipedia has 14 million articles.
21. LinkedIn has 60+ million professionals worldwide.
22. Yahoo has over 12 million searches every hour.
23. Bing has over 3 million searches every hour.

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Sources:
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/global-social-media-usage/
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/014511.html
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html
http://webtrends.about.com/b/2010/03/15/the-top-10-most-popular-social-networks.htm
http://compete.com
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx

Warning: 23 Social Media Stats You Can’t Ignore is a post from: OE Design Blog

As a worker we are continually bombarded with what is happening in the world, in the lives of our friends and through all forms of online advertising and alerts. And as employers we are presented with the challenge – should we create an environment that is totally devoid of this interference, or should we encourage our staff to engage?

New research shows almost three quarters of Australian workers say ‘watching YouTube’ is the most common online activity at work. The survey from Dynamic Business Magazine also shows more than a third of Australians spend at least an hour on Facebook while at work.

‘Many of us are in front of a computer for the majority of our work day, often in our own cubicles or offices and now we know what’s really going on,’ said DBM’s Jen Bishop. ‘This kind of online activity is often generated by emails we receive promoting sales or new products, emails about new messages or posts on Facebook or friends emailing about new YouTube videos we just have to watch.’

But a Melbourne University study recently suggested productivity improves among staff who have more freedom to surf the net. The study of 300 workers found productivity rose 9% among those free to surf compared with those who were not.

Source Material: The Courier Mail

Is Social Media Creating Online Distraction Or More Productivity? is a post from: OE Design Blog