SocialNetworking_Jess+Leigh

Senior Project 2014
MTI News.org

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1. Leigh Garrett Jess Seagren Senior Project Social Networking In Business.
2. Leigh Garrett Jess Seagren MTA(Microsoft Technology Associate) MOS(Microsoft Office Specialist; Outlook, PowerPoint, Word) OSHA MOS(Microsoft Office Specialist; Outlook, PowerPoint, Word) OSHA
3. 1969: CompuServe is created, it’s the first major commercial Internet service provider for the public in the United States. 1985: AOL service is opened. 1998: Google opens as a major Internet search engine and index. 2003: There were more than 3 billion Web pages. Myspace was created. LinkedIn was started as a business-oriented social networking site for professionals. 2004: Facebook is created. YouTube began storing and retrieving videos. There were more than 8 billion Web pages.
4. 2010: It was estimated the population of Internet users was 1.97 billion. That was almost 30 percent of the global population. The Internet had surpassed newspapers as a primary way for Americans to get news; The Internet was the third most popular news platform. 2012: Advertisers look to social “likes” to enhance brand visibility. It is estimated Internet users would double by 2015 to a global total of some four billion users, or nearly 60 percent of Earth’s population. 2006: Myspace was the most popular networking site in the U.S. Twitter was launched as a social networking and microblogging site. Google had indexed more than 25 billion web pages, 400 million queries per day, and 1.3 billion images. 2009: It’s estimated that a quarter of Earth’s population used the Internet. The Internet had at least 27 billion web pages and could have had as many as 58 billion web pages.
5. Social networking is a major factor in business growth today. When a business has social media accounts it makes it easier to get more reach to new customers online
6. One of the main networking sites today is Facebook. An easy way for a small business to get more “likes” on their Facebook page would be advertisements.
7. Taco Bell has built an incredibly strong social media presence on Facebook, Instagram, and last but definitely not least, Twitter.
8. YouTube can help your business by increasing overall brand awareness with it’s advertisement options as well. YouTube has become a major platform for multimedia information today.
9. Etsy is a quick and easy way to make an online store without doing too much work.
10. Businesses have access to everything they need on computers, and in an instant you can manage your own business. Things in the business world have been condensed and made simple and easy with today’s technology.