Social Media | Jake Hird

Internet interaction

Aug 03, 11

Posted by admin in Internet, Stats & data

Nice infoposter showing how different demographics interact with various online...

Social commerce on Facebook: Infoposter

Jun 10, 11

Posted by admin in Internet, Social Media

Social commerce is getting bigger, with more and more retailers taking an interest in the various technologies and platforms available. Naturally, given its size and potential reach, Facebook is being given a lot of attention at the moment. I’m a large advocate of Facebook-commerce, or f-commerce, as it’s more widely...

Living statistics

May 30, 11

Posted by admin in Internet, Stats & data

Okay, so it’s been a while. To make up for it, here’s an old favourite of mine, living statistics: Gary Hayes’ social media counts. Play around with it, it’s kind of...

What’s the value of being Linkedin?

Apr 23, 11

Posted by admin in Internet, Social Media

Coming from Soshable, the cunning folks there have created a “Linkedinfographic”, which is pretty much what it says on the tin: an infographic based upon Linkedin. I’m actually quite a big fan of Linkedin… although it’s a hell of lot smaller than the likes of Facebook or Twitter, it’s actually...

The rise of social commerce

Mar 31, 11

Posted by admin in E-commerce, Internet, Research

Defining social commerce can be quite tricky, but I’d say at the core, it’s leveraging social engagement and interactions for commerce purposes. Interestingly, the term was originally coined by Yahoo back in 2005to describe a set of their online collaborative shopping tools, which included user ratings and UGC-sharing...