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OK. Its flashy and a bit gaudy and of course you shouldn’t believe all the statistics and marketing hype you see on the web … but this really is staggering!

Just click on some of the buttons for mobile use and comparisons with other media!

Although these numbers take some comprehending, they clearly show this is Social Media … and its HUGE!

(Picked up from @bigbible - http://bigbible.org.uk/2011/06/does-social-media-count/#.TqnlHfrY-uI - Thanks!)

I’m looking around today for social media tools that are relevant and helpful for voluntary and community organisations.

So it’s great to find this resource and toolkit list on the oneforty website. Plenty of tool kits which will appeal to a wide range of ‘nonprofits’ and plenty of tools to help with listening, marketing, analysis of statistics … and much much more.

Something for everyone!

These look useful - one for the bookmarks!

The Social Media Crib Sheet from the ICT Champions project has been updated. The social media world is fast moving with new websites useful to voluntary and community sector organisations being announced all the time. You can view the crib sheet by following the link above (this uses Issuu - one of the websites in the crib sheet) or you can download it from the ICT Champions website.

Although the numbers are from the US, this packed infographic illustrates the size and influence of Twitter in comparison to Facebook.

Wow!

Despite a slightly shady past, Ning has built up a strong following with third sector organisations and community networks looking to link together groups and their members. Indeed NAVCAs’ own navcaboodle site was built usin Ning.

This article has a good list of alternative places where you can host your network - to which i’d add SocialGo and Grou.ps. I’m currently trying both of these out for a network and can say i’m very impressed with the features and simplicity of Grou.ps.

The lesson? When signing up to any free web service, think “what will happen to may network, my community or my data and media if this service was no longer avaialble”. It may be moving to a paid service is an option, or moving elsewhere. What you don’t want is for the service to be withdrawn and your network lose everything it has built up.

Interesting perspective on the Daily Telegraph article about time spent on Social Networking sites in the average office.

40 minutes per week (8 mins per day) per employee are “wasted” on these sites it seems. But how much time is spent talking about X-Factor or Sports fixtures? Is this time wasted though, isn’t it all part of social interaction, which we all need to do at work and we all need to continue our discoovery of useful resources on the Internet.

Is a procuctive person one who spends 8 hours at a desk or one which achieves the oucomes set by their employer?

You’ve just spent a copuple of minutes reading this blog post … how productively will you use your remaining 6 mins today!?

Surprisingly, parts of cyberspace are teenager-free zones. Who is learning from who. Also to note, only 11% of Twitter users are under 17 years old.

Latest results for a worldwide survey on social media use and trends by individuals