"#Google+, +1, Facebook, Twitter, Scoop, Foursquare, Empire Avenue, Klout and more"

This piece was written by Ric Williams, COO of Empire Avenue. For those of you who are on Empire Avenue, you will want to hear about this news. For those of you who are not participating in this great social network, the following statistic effects everyone doing business on line.

 

****These predictions were not made by me, I choose to remain open, no matter what video will play an important role in how users consume content.

 

****By 2015, 90% of all internet traffic will be video.

 

****YouTube streams 3 Billion hours of video a month; that is 30 minutes of video for every man, woman and child on the planet. Wow!

 

Here's the takeaway for all you Empire Avenue fans:

 

**** It is becoming more difficult to drive people to your content and engage them just because of the sheer amount of content that is now on YouTube.

 

****Missions have proven incredibly powerful for driving engagement with online content, and this is just one way we’re improving the feature.

 

**This release will be the first of a few that we will release over the coming weeks with a similar theme, i.e. giving the creator traceability and help them to better engage people in their content.

 

My comments:

 

It's important to learn and understand how all these networks fit together, how significant video and Youtube will be in the years to come and what ways you can leverage this to grow and build your audience.  It's a learning curve for many but it's worth the time and effort.

 

In today's marketplace, you have to build community and good will, and Empire Avenue is one of many ways to do it.

 

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

 

Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/yNI7ns]

Via janlgordon

Lot of good tools to help you facilitate conversations with the right people through your content sharing in social media.

Intro:

Social media can be a very valuable tool for promoting content. While it's a good idea to make sure you're spreading it to your direct network of fans and followers on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+, the true value that social media provides is its ability to spread content beyond your direct network of social media connections

By making it easy for others to share your content to their personal networks as well, you'll be significantly extending the reach of your content.So what can you do to help move this process along? While you can't directly influence whether someone decides to share your content, there are several things you can do to indirectly encourage and make it simple for them. Here are some great tips...

Read more: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/25082/7-Ways-to-Optimize-Content-for-Social-Sharing.aspx#ixzz1XwfTsP5o

Via janlgordon

This post is from Jeff Bullas and as always he has some very important information  about a StumbleUpon that you should know about.

 

Intro:

 

"I recently stumbled across some data from Stat Counter that revealed that StumbleUpon drives more referral traffic than Facebook and Twitter or any other social media site!"

 

**The Statistics on StumbleUpon Worth Noting

 

**StumbleUpon itself has just released a infographic that highlights some interesting facts and figures about its service that is worth keeping in mind

 

Read the full article:  http://bit.ly/rAMOWw

Via janlgordon, Tom George