Martin Kovac

People at uberVu, came with very robust infographic on the social media lifecycle. You can explore how some successful brands use
4 pillars of social media to reach their goals and how they measure their progress.

The infographic below is inspired from the company’s white paper, which can be downloaded for free.

Here are some highlights:

Chris Brown, who works at LinkedIn, shared video documenting real life at LinkedIn in Europe.

A new report on social media from Nielsen shows Social Networks and Blogs rule Americans’ Internet time, accounting for 23 percent of time spent online.
More than twice the amount of time spent on the Online Games.

To further put this into context, time spent on the 75 “Other” online categories combined only accounts for 35 percent of Americans’ total Internet time:

Maria Peagler, the founder of Social Media Online Classes, listed 64 marketing techniques in eight Facebook feature categories.
Mix those techniques and make the best marketing cocktail for your company:

Infographic from Followgram shows the journey that Instagram has taken since it’s launch into the Apple store back in October 2010.

LinkedIn is about to approach 120 million members worldwide.
Europe represents 22% of members.

United Kingdom (6.9 million), Netherlands (2.8 million), France (2.6 million), Italy (2.1 million) and Spain (2 million) have most LinkedIn users.
German speaking countries are all behind, as they mostly use XING.

Just in two years over 400,000 businesses have created a presence on Foursquare and 10,000 developers have used the Foursquare API to build their own custom apps.

Source: Foursquare

Onlineschools.org created infographig of the major events in online social media.
First online social connection began with the first email sent on 1971. From that time, many social websites started and vanished. The most used social websites nowadays are MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.

The History of Social Networking

Source: Flowtown.