Social Media Evangelists Tweet Trends from GW Business School

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  What a stimulating day, spanning social media with #L2socialgraph to medicinal recipes during Shakespeare's time!

Are you reading this blog from your desk or outside your doorway?  Studies show that more people in three years will be surfing the Internet from their mobile phones than from the desktop computers. It’s mostly driven by emerging markets that are skipping computers altogether and adopting handheld PDAs as their primary tool, according to Scott Galloway, the founder of L2, a Think Tank for Digital Innovation.

RT @yianniak: More people will be surfing the web on their phone or tablet -- than they do on a computer within 3 years! -#l2socialgraph

Today, social media experts from the government and private sectors assembled at the social enterprising George Washington University to engage in stimulating discussions on the constantly evolving future of social media.

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  “Social media and other online strategies are critical tools that public sector organizations use to encourage transparency, engage constituents and serve the public in an era of cost cutting,” said Dean Doug Guthrie. “Our leaders and public sector organizations need to embrace these powerful new tools.”








• A college setting is the ideal location for such a dialogue because Facebook and Twitter are proving to be popular places for networking and promotion:

  

  RT @yianniak: Young affluents are 2x likely to be on #facebook that to WATCH #tv. #L2socialgraph

  After all, more and more students are tweeting in class and sharing notes and observations about the lecture with each other (yes, during class).