Let’s call this Week in Social Media the “Visual Week.” I found quite a few interesting and funny infographics and videos, all of course concerning our favorite topic: social media.
What would Facebook look like, if it was a city? Actually, it would be humongous, with its 600,000,000 inhabitants (20 times bigger than the most populous existing city). Have a look at this infographic on getsatisfaction.
LinkedIn has recently surpassed the 100 million user mark—and to that, we say congratulations! Mashable marked [...]

Hello, and welcome to another “Week in Social Media.”
Although 2011 has just started, 2010 is still fresh in our minds, so I will use the chance to concentrate on the past, the present and the future. As reported in my last post, much happened during the past year, especially on the Web and in social media.
Let’s take a look at the Internet itself first. Have you any idea how many websites were added in 2010? Or how many people used [...]

Hello again, and for the last time this year.
Because of today’s special date, let’s not call this blog post “The Week in Social Media” but “The Year in Social Media.”
So much has happened and changed in 2010—just look at the Social Life and Social Media blog. Whether topics or trends, networks, platforms or microblogging services, everything concerning social media has been through a huge transformation throughout 2010. Facebook got bigger and bigger, Google tried a few things and had to [...]

The words rumors and Facebook seem to belong together these days. But now we know that Friday’s rumor about the social network (“Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming on Monday”) is reality. Mark Zuckerberg announced the “modern messaging system” on Monday. (“This is not an e-mail killer,” he added. Okay, so that was one rumor that perhaps won’t come true. Stay tuned.) There are interesting possibilities for such a Web-based e-mail client. Due to the knowledge concerning relationships between users [...]

There is always something new going on with Facebook. So let’s start this week’s post by looking at the rumors I wrote about last week: Facebook Places’ Deals. It’s been confirmed; it is official since Wednesday: Local businesses will be able to offer deals when users check in to their place on Facebook. Deals will be starting over the next few days and will only be available in the United States (at the beginning [...]

Walking into the Time Warner Center for Adweek’s Social Media Strategies Conference recently (the conference was held Oct. 13-14) was a lot like entering a professional sporting event. I put my bag through a metal detector, got my ticket and then entered a room with several large projection screens—though instead of jumbotrons displaying fans in the stadium, we were seeing live streams of tweets.
And, really, it was fitting, considering that this was the Olympics of social media, with key [...]

Hello again from Chicago! For the last time from America, I want to share with you the weekly social media links Baptiste Limb and I have gathered.
Let’s start this week’s selection with two interesting but nevertheless totally different examples of how to use social media to achieve your goals. Who would have thought that even the police use social media tools and channels? You should really check out this post and video on the Next Web Australia. It’s about a policeman [...]

Hello from Chicago! It is time again for “The Week in Social Media,” by Baptiste Limb and me—this time from Chicago because I’m on vacation in this amazing city. So let’s face the latest social media news and trends.
Social media is becoming even more popular than e-mail—at least on mobile devices. A recent study by research company TNS shows that mobile users spend 1.4 times as many hours using social networking sites than reading and responding to e-mail. Read more [...]

“Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.” —Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish astronomer, 1473–1543)
A lot of communication-related conferences and summits have happened the past few weeks around the world. None of them has avoided social media. I can even say that it was the main topic everywhere. Why? Simply because social media is mainstream, and with that comes greater opportunities.
Let’s understand those opportunities with five recent speeches by the most relevant speakers [...]

Because Hillevi Lausten did a fantastic job this summer, she will keep on writing “The Week in Social Media,” while I’ll develop a social media–related topic every week. So let me introduce you to the spinoff of “The Week in Social Media,” called “Social Media Focus.” Have a good read!
“The next wave of communication and brand creation and building is all about location. This is what will make the ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds come together and it will be lots [...]