Interview with Energy Conservation Society of Ontario

Jason Dasti conducts interview with Glenn McKnight of the Energy Conservation Society of Ontario
Podcast courtesy of Sound Sustainable Podcast and BeSustainable


http://besustainable.com/audio/ECSo.mp3

New Social Media Revolution Facts

Some stats on the New Media Revolution

• 7.1 Million Canadians have Facebook pages

• Toronto Facebook has 1.1 Million members, second in the world, average user is on facebook for 320 minutes per month

• MYSPACE book in numbers is the 8^th largest country

• 48% of business leaders spend 2-5 hours a week using social media tools to generate leads and find new clients

• 42% of sales managers view blogs and podcasts as very important sales generating tools (Source: MarketingSherpa)

• Of the Top 8 most visited sites worldwide, 5 are social networking websites – MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Live.com, YouTube (Source: eMarketer)

• The fastest growing demographic of social media users is those 25 years old and older (source: too many surveys to list here)

• Just under 49,000 people who use Second Life are earning a positive cash flow in the virtual world (source: Second Life)

• Podcasts

• Videocasting

• Twitter is going by 3,000% per month, 750,000 users

Oshawa Social Media Meet Up

Oshawa Social Media Meet-Up

Do you or your company have a social media action plan?

Does these images mean anything to you?

Come learn about

• Podcasting and Videocasting

• Facebook and MySpace

• Blogging

• Social Bookmarking, Delicious, DIGG

• Twitter

• Second Life

Two hour free event to meet and greet Oshawa local people who are interested and some who are using social media in progressive ways.

Presenter:
Glenn McKnight, Anthropologist, Business Entrepreneur and GreenCaster will provide an overview of each of these technologies



A free event will be held at the Velvet Elvis at King Street, Oshawa

Date: March 5th, 2008

Time 10 to 12 o clock

Event is Free:

Pre-registration is Mandatory, Seating is limited.

Contacting Jason Dasti at 905-434-6655 or email at jasondasti@rogers.com or twitter at dasti

Please bring your laptop since it is a WIFI location