In Malcom Gladwell’s excellent book the Tipping Point there is a very interesting chapter called ‘The Law of the few’ which is very important from a social media perspective. He argues that there are 3 types of people that are useful for spreading ideas through word of mouth.
Connectors – A [...]
With the rapid rise of the use of social media a new form of marketing has appeared. Rather than marketing people being in control and blasting a message out to customers that are not interested in listening, social influence marketing (SIM) is taking over. This is about consumers marketing to consumers. They [...]

I get numerous questions about the size and growth of social networks. It’s hard to keep pace with some of them, in particular Facebook, but here are some statistics.
There are over 40 million business professionals on LinkedIn with over 28% at Vice President level or above and over 66% are considered influencers or decision [...]