Comments on: The mass-adoption phase of social media is now! http://srikantsharma.com/blog/2009/01/29/the-mass-adoption-phase-of-social-media-is-now/ My musings on enterprise sales and marketing, revenue generation, and demand generation Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: rajeev http://srikantsharma.com/blog/2009/01/29/the-mass-adoption-phase-of-social-media-is-now/comment-page-1/#comment-5 rajeev Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:00:56 +0000 http://srikantsharma.com/blog/2009/01/29/the-mass-adoption-phase-of-social-media-is-now/#comment-5 Hey Srikanth. Sounds interesting...does this article take into account the geographical differences in the life cycle curve? For example, Europe may lag a little in adoption compared to USA (thats a guess i could be wrong). Also will we see more consolidation in social media or will there be new avenues for niche players to still enter? If the early adopter stage has passed, does it mean a higher barrier for new entrants? Hey Srikanth. Sounds interesting…does this article take into account the geographical differences in the life cycle curve? For example, Europe may lag a little in adoption compared to USA (thats a guess i could be wrong).

Also will we see more consolidation in social media or will there be new avenues for niche players to still enter? If the early adopter stage has passed, does it mean a higher barrier for new entrants?

]]> By: monicadear http://srikantsharma.com/blog/2009/01/29/the-mass-adoption-phase-of-social-media-is-now/comment-page-1/#comment-4 monicadear Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:49:11 +0000 http://srikantsharma.com/blog/2009/01/29/the-mass-adoption-phase-of-social-media-is-now/#comment-4 Thanks for posting this Srikant, I definitely agree. Many of my high school and college friends seem to have surged onto facebook just in the last 3 months. What I see will happen is businesses advocating directly to their specific consumers through social networking and word-of-mouth strategies. And I'm seeing a rise in Facebook for business like: custom geo-specific ads to your target demographic customized applications to encourage shopping/sharing pages/fans/groups and I'm also seeing a rise in phishing/identify theft applications with very loose privacy and security functions "social networking gurus" I've written some how-to tips for new people navigating around Facebook: Beginners: http://www.tinyurl.com/facebookhowto1 Intermediate I: http://www.tinyurl.com/facebookhowto2 Intermediate II: http://www.tinyurl.com/facebookhowto3 I also read that LinkedIn has many many new signups from the finance sector. I think this means that we are all growing closer as an interconnected community. Thanks for posting this Srikant, I definitely agree.

Many of my high school and college friends seem to have surged onto facebook just in the last 3 months.

What I see will happen is businesses advocating directly to their specific consumers through social networking and word-of-mouth strategies.

And I’m seeing a rise in Facebook for business like:
custom geo-specific ads to your target demographic
customized applications to encourage shopping/sharing
pages/fans/groups

and I’m also seeing a rise in
phishing/identify theft
applications with very loose privacy and security functions
“social networking gurus”

I’ve written some how-to tips for new people navigating around Facebook:
Beginners: http://www.tinyurl.com/facebookhowto1
Intermediate I: http://www.tinyurl.com/facebookhowto2
Intermediate II: http://www.tinyurl.com/facebookhowto3

I also read that LinkedIn has many many new signups from the finance sector. I think this means that we are all growing closer as an interconnected community.

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