A global phenomenon

Social media is a global phenomenon happening in all markets regardless of wider economic, social and cultural development. If you are online you are using social media
• Asian markets are leading in terms of participation, creating more content than any other region
• All social media platforms have grown significantly:
– Video Clips are the quickest growing platform, up from 31% penetration in 2006 to 83% in 2010
• 57% have joined a Social Network, making it the number one platform for creating
and sharing content
– 55% of users have uploaded photos
– 22% of users have uploaded videos
• The widget economy is real
– 23% of social network users have installed an application
– 18% of bloggers have installed applications in their blog templates
• Blogs are a mainstream media world-wide and as a collective rival any traditional media
– 73% have read a blog
• The blogsphere is becoming increasingly participatory, now 184m bloggers world-wide
– The number one thing to blog about is personal life and family
• China has the largest blogging community in the world with 42m bloggers, more than the US and Western Europe combined
• Social media impacts your brands reputation
– 34% post opinions about products and brands on their blog
– 36% think more positively about companies that have blogs

In the beginning

I wonder who will read this and if they will learn anything? I wonder what I will learn. I am not much of a writer, so I hope the readers of this blog will bare with me. I suppose the first and most important piece of information I can give you is a background of who I am. That is easiest by going to www.rock7625site.com.

This blog will talk about me, as interesting as that can be. I will probably ask more questions then answer and I hope that by reading this you ask yourself some of the questions. I think the best way to explain why I am writing this comes from one of the last lines in Pulp Fiction when Jules, tells Ringo:

"There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.

Not that I am a killer nor am I necessarily an evil man, but I am not calm, I am not at peace and I am conflicted. I am lonely with many friends, I am poor with much in my life. I am trying real hard to be a shepherd.