I’ve written the eight social media trends you  need to pay attention to for next year. 2012 Social Media Trends. Social TV Convergence. Today we talk about mobile, social, marketing, public relations, advertising, direct, email, customer service, and sales as if they’re working in silos. Not everyone uses social networks (yet). Social Commerce. The other day I was in the Apple store and I checked in, using Foursquare. It asked me if I wanted to pay using the Apple app. New Social Networks. Results. MORE >>

There aren’t too many great social networking apps for the iPad, but I have found a select few that I find myself using on a regular basis. Below is the list that I use regularly that cover using Twitter, Facebook, blogging, news consumption and social/web stats. Ego ($2.99) – It’s not the most robust web/social analytics offering, but what it lacks in depth, it makes up for in simplicity and ease of use. Sometimes it’s great just to get some high level information about your web and social stats. My 9 Favorite iPhone Social Media Apps. MORE >>

Over at UK newspaper The Guardian, Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares his views on the future of the Internet , including web freedom and the restrictive practices of Facebook and Apple. Look at Google Plus Your World , for example, that gives more credence to search results with your Google Plus account , versus other social networks or websites. Google is still seeing their social network struggling to find ground, so any extra numbers (real or otherwise) would ease investor burdens. Insights Apple facebook googleGoogle’s Short-Term Memory. MORE >>

It’s amazing how fast the world of social media moves!  As many of the statistics from the original Social Media video have changed, I took a moment to refresh the video with a few new statistics and graphics.  Thanks to all of you for your support in making the first Social Media Revolution and Social Media ROI videos such a huge success and I hope that you enjoy this refresh! 96% of them have joined a social network. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web. last year met via social media. MORE >>

million employees for social media help. million employees into social media brand evangelists. It’s hard to fake enthusiasm and social media is a sensitive bullshit detector and it will ignore half-hearted attempts by Walmart employees to satisfy their corporate masters. They’ll look at their employees and see them as twitter drones that can magically reverse their social media fortunes. To this day it amazes me that Apple doesn’t have a blog, twitter and Facebook accounts. would kill to hear what it’s like to work at Apple. MORE >>