Social Media is fast, but Social Change is slow
Ngeth Moses
What happens on the Internet every 60 Seconds
• 6,600+ pictures are uploaded to Flickr• 600 videos are uploaded to YouTube• 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040
comments are published on social networking site Facebook
• 168,000,000+ emails are sent, • 98,000 tweets are generated on Twitter• 20,00 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform• 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by skype users• 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized
Internet radio provider Pandora
Why Social Network(s)?
• Everybody’s e-contact(s)
• Debating
• Mobilization
• Groups (both personal and public)
• Entertain and fun
Creating you own news platform(s)
• The Moses Daily
• My Storify
• My blogs – Posterous
• My Hoot suite
Something I’ve found interesting
• Live Tweet
• I make my own news (Storify link to Posterous)
• My best friends Apps
• Twitter contact