One of the most difficult things about Social Media is just getting started. In this class, the Social Media Studio will help you identify the best social media program and platforms for you. This class will detail the most popular social media sites in use, their functionality and best applications. This is a perfect class for the individual hoping to join the social media realm or for a small or emerging growth company which is looking for the proper strategy to get started.

1. “ Social Media 101” By Michael DeAloia @techczar January 11, 2011

3. What is Social Media?

6. “ Social Media is ‘word-of-mouth’ in the web environment.” - Tech Czar, sometime ago over a martini (www.techczar.blog.com) @Techczar

7. @Techczar “ Over 80% of Americans Use Social Media Monthly.” - Forrester, The Broad Reach of Social Technologies 2009

8. “ Social Media has overtaken adult entertainment and email as the #1 activity on the web.” - socialnomics, Social Media Blog @Techczar

9. “ It’s a people driven economy stupid.” -Eric Qualman, 2009 @Techczar

10. “ So…What are the trends?” @Techczar

11. Years it took a medium to reach 50 million users… @Techczar

12. 38 Years @Techczar

13. 13 Years @Techczar

14. 4 Years @Techczar

15. 3 Years @Techczar

16. “ 100 Million users in less than 9 months.” @Techczar

17. I-phone Applications hit 1 billion downloads in 9 months

18. Wordpress

19. Twitter

22. Facebook

24. “ If Facebook were a Country, it would be the 3 rd most populated in the world, ahead of Japan.” -Mark Zuckerberg

25. China’s Q-Zone is Larger!

26. LinkedIn

27. YouTube

28. Every minute- 13 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube .

29. It would take a person more than 412 years to view every video on YouTube .

30. 1,200,000,000 The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.

31. FourSquare

32. Flickr

33. Vimeo