Friday, April 16, 2010

ROI

ROI.Return on Investment

I dint' know it would hav something to do with webs and internets.
I just thought it was something to do with accounting or business or that kind of field.

but after reading this blog and this, I get it little bit.


Today's social media is getting so important. and It is not too much to say it all the time.

So it become a company and business it self. As it grows, it became more like one, so

it became to have character as business and it means, it now needs more than just users.

Thats why I think ROI and every business stuff came up.

In my opinion, I think it is helpful to do ROI on social medias.

Somebody might not agree with me but I think like this.


Social media is now a industry and it has character of business.

So it can be treated like that. and If it does, it might grow bigger.

So I think it is a good thing. and base on this results and things, maybe that things

bring social media to the next level.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

social gaming!

Social gaming…hmmm it was not a familiar word to me. To be honest, it is the first time I heard about this word. So I searched it to know its meaning.


Wiki said, it is playing game, but in a way of social interaction. Usually not playing games alone, two or more people are included so they can interact.
The big purpose is to interact with other people through games.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_gaming)
If you want to know more about social gaming definition, click here!http://pc.ign.com/articles/106/1069763p1.html





After read this definition, I did some more research to understand this clearly.
Definition is what is above, so I decided to find who is playing this game and what is, to be clearer, what kind of these games are, and how popular they are.


Result of Googleing and search in yahoo, I found some blogs which have answer that I was wondering and wanted to find. These blogs are interesting and have many postings about social gaming, so I like to share. I’ll link it bottom of this posting, so anyone who are interested, click it!


The first blog I looked in to are these. I wanted to know what kind of game are there and what is going on gaming industry, so I looked in to theses.


blog 1.http://myfarmcommunity.com/showthread.php?7661-Social-Gaming-Roundup-iPad-Frosmo-Statistics-More&p=64185

blog2.

blog3.

blog4.

blog 5.

blog6.


blog7.





After reading this, I knew there are many games like poker, farm vile, zen bound, frosmo, penny drop, Zynga, Playfish, Playdom, crowdStar and the others as well. These are playing in all kinds of social media networking sites such as facebook, my space, ipad, and the other sites as well.



People play these a lot. A game like crowdStar and play dom, these had been downloaded more than 20 million MAU, with DAU at 2.56 million and 47.5 million MAU with 10.8 million DAU. (statistics are from http://www.vaibhav.us/2009/12/top-facebook-social-game-developers.html )



Some of the games are not only playing in USA, they also expand their market to Asia. A game such as Frosmo.



Frosmo is a game that tournament and team-based platform game. It is popular among social gamers so they decided to expand their market to Asia. So now, people living in China and Asian countries can play this game too!
They have all sorts of games, so there are many options to choose. From kids to elders, they can choose games they like. They can raise pets or have farm and run them, or play zynga or cross words. It is for every age.


But most of internet users are young so, there are lot of games at their age. Like simulation games but still there are many games for all and it was good to have many options.



Now I know what kind of game they are playing and what is famous. My next question was who are playing these games. So I search again and I found this blog.




As this postings theme said, it was a big help and answer to my question.
According to this blog, 55% of social gamers are women and 45% are males. And in UK, 58% are women and 42% are men


I thought men are more game type but in social gaming it tends to be women play more than men. Among these female gamers, 38% said they play multiple times of game a day and 29 males said it too. Women more like to play with people they know (68% / 56%) and males play more with strangers (41% /33%)



I think it shows difference of gender. There are many types of people but generally girls tend to play with people they know. And I think women tend to more careful about being with strangers than men.

The strange thing about who is playing social game was the players age. According to this blog 46% of social gamers are over 50 years old in United states.


And UK, only 23% are young age gamers. The average age of social gamers in US is 48 and UK, 38.



This was really strange to me. I thought young people do more social networking so, they would play more. But somehow, olders do it more. So It is really strange to me. Maybe, younger people do more social networking but don’t do the game and olders do more games.


Social gamers are all over the age and all over the world! It is getting bigger and bigger. According to this blog, One hundred million(!!)



people are playing these games and about $1 billion(!!!) in revenue is expected this year(2010). It’s getting bigger and bigger and many companies are diving into the market.



It is a rising market so dive in to it before it is too late!:)




These are the blogs that I left comments.

http://socialgame7.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/treasure-isle-video/#comment-113

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2010/03/13/social-gaming-roundup-ipad-frosmo-statistics-more/comment-page-1/#comment-14613

http://socialgamesnation.com/?p=50&cpage=1#comment-11

http://www.massively.com/2010/04/06/richard-garriot-and-the-choppy-waters-of-social-gaming/










These are the websites/ blogs that I read

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_gaming_legit_gameplay_or_a_play_for_your_ca.php

http://pc.ign.com/articles/106/1069763p1.html

http://www.socialgamestips.com/blog

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/category/socialgames/

http://friskymongoose.com/social-gamers-are-younger-in-the-united-kingdom-says-popcap/

http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/social-gaming-survey/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/

http://pc.ign.com/articles/106/1069763p1.html

http://socialgame7.wordpress.com/

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/category/socialgames/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_gaming_legit_gameplay_or_a_play_for_your_ca.php

http://pc.ign.com/articles/106/1069763p1.html

http://socialgamesnation.com/

http://www.massively.com/tag/social-gaming/
http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/social-gaming-survey/

http://myfarmcommunity.com/showthread.php?7661-Social-Gaming-Roundup-iPad-Frosmo-Statistics-More&p=64185

Friday, April 9, 2010

future trends to social media and social networking

Everything changes so fast and they have a trend.

Social media does too.

I read two blogs about it.(Link ie below)

They said there would be more changes in serch engine, contents.

It is true. wile I am typing this, some where contents and search engine must be upgrading.

They will want more privacy. I agree with this too. In old days, they didn't want much information but now, you are preference is not option anymore.

There will be major increas on social medeia world, and It is happening right now! It is getting pretty serious too. now it is a one of business and some of them will have a agent for it.

and because of this, companies wil have policy about it. It is reasonable thing to happen. and I think some of already dose.

phones, are already so important to us. Even 10 year old kid carry it.
It is evolving.


It is growing increadiblly every minuite! It is even hard to catch up.

and we can't stop it, we have to follow it.

but in this rush of growing and future of social media, I am little worried about the reality.


Face to face meetings, real conversation and hand written letters.

I think changing is good but, there is something more important than virtual things so I hope everybody know it to.

















These are the sites I read. I think it is good and I want to share with you guys!

( I did link it but somehow, it keeps error. so I just type it too.)

http://www.slideshare.net/TrendsSpotting/2010-social-media-influencers-trend-predictions-in-140-characters


http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/04/27/future-of-the-social-web/

http://takemetoyourleader.com/2010/04/07/social-media-2012-11-trends-you-should-watch/

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2009/11/six_social_media_trends.html








Saturday, April 3, 2010

Internet changes.

like everything, Internet is changing too.

We have different ways to search on the internet and we can analysis our blogs.

which is really interesting and I think it is really useful.

In old days, If you blog, it is hard to know that who visited your blog and where the visitor lives. even if the blogger gets know that, it is not easy to know that things.

but know, you know how many people visited, where they live and that kind of things.

It is really interesting and helping thing to bloggers.

And the search engins are pretty interesting too.

by doing this the big websites are in competition too.

Internets change is getting really interesting. I wonder how far it gets :)

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

New resume? hmm...

As internet communicstion and bloggings became common, blog is very important to many people.

Through blog, they express their emotion, thaughts, personal ideas, their information.
It became one of their essentials.

There are two guys who claims that blog is your new resume. (,)

They said if you read the applicant's resume, that is not enough. you can get limited information from that.

But If you read their blog, you will know better about them and put them in the right position and hire them.


It makes sense. But to me, blog is very privit and personal place where I can be connected with my friends anywhere and talk something privit.

So I think it is good to get to know the candidates but their privacy problem is going to come out.


Of course, they will take care of their blog and the a judge will ask the candidate whether they can see their blog or not but I am little worried about it.


People have to re-think and very careful of oing posting and they are not going to do it often if it is against their company they wanted to be in. so I tink that can be a problem too.




Of cours, Joshua Porter is right, now a days, blog is business so you need to care about it.

but what if it is personal? blog is a mirror of themselves. right. but it is his/her free space, so it is not good if they are too care about what to right and what to not right.



considering blog as a resume is a god idea, but some problems come after. so I think they need to think more. or am I just to worried?

Saturday, March 20, 2010

online collaboration

These days we can do so many things on online.

Not like the old days, we can talk, watch video, and chat.
and we can do more than that. we can attend calss on online, and take a test.
We can attend meetings on online too.


Online web tools are so amazingly improved.
Many software/or IT companies try to improve or find a new online program.

It is good that we can do many things on online, but I am little worried that doing something on online is too much.


It is helping, useful and convenient but we should not addicted or to in to it to much.

growing technology

Technology these days are incredable!
It is amazingly improved and it is still growing very very fast.

Now it can be used in having conversation through the internet
and they even can be used in military!


It shows that how much it got delicate, and faster and information or privacy safer.
because if something useing in military, it must be very delicate and safe!
so being used in military shows how technology grew so much.



and having conversation through internet,is realy common thing now.
at first time, it was just chatting through words but communication tools are improving too so now we can talk through it and see each other too!

It has been prooved so much!
I wonder what is limited to this improvement and I am gladly looking forward to see some more surprises.

Friday, February 26, 2010

New life at virtual world!

Virtual world.... hmmm. It is so common in these days.
In virtual world we can do anything and everything!
we can actually buy stuffs, make friends, study... everything!


a university has a virtual island so students can study and live there. Like this, there are many small virtual country od organizations exist.


because of that, virtual market is dramatically expending.
Virtual world, we have avatar. That represent him/herself in the virtual word.
Owner of avatar wants to make it better. They buy that clothes,shoes,house and that kind of stuffs. This is why virtual market is expnding.



It is so big, we can't ignore it anymore.
In my opinion, one of the reason why it is doing do well is it is a good and fast way to get vicarious satisfaction




for example, you want to by nice jacket. It is about $100 but you have short budget for that. So you buy your avatar a jacket with similar design in $1 or less! and you are happy with it.


I think it effects expention of virtual market to.


anyway, these days virtual market is growing so faster and bigger.
It is a good thing,but it is important not to fall for it to much.

Friday, February 19, 2010

starting networking.

Starting networking is not afraid thing, but some people does think like that sometimes.I read two articles about the wrong ideas about network.

Networking helps make friednds in on line and it extends your social circle.
To do this(networking) you don't need to be smart, funny, or very attractive person to make somebody visit your blog or read your post. In the articles I read, being nice is the best way. Every people need someone to listen their story, even in the network.



So if you want good network, all you need to do is just being nice and listen to other people well. thats waht you need to do networking. Not smart, not funny, just being nice.


Just make people wannt to talk to you and listen to them well and being nice is all you need! It is easy, so don't intimidate by network many people should try it!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Mobile everywhere!

Mobiles are very important to all people these days. No matter how old they are, where they live, what they do, mobiles are essential to everyone.



Its evolving evry day so now, we can do everything with them. We can chat on the mobile, take a picture, listen to music, talk to friend( of course!) find the words that you don't know(dictonary) now, we can find where my friends are!.



GPS in mobile is a not recent technology but it got better recently. GPS is a good thing to find a restoraunt, of a place that you want to go, and when you are lost.
but do we really need this to where our friends are? Isn't that cause a privacy problem? and isn't it expensive?



I know it is easy to find and very comfortable. and we can't use it without the friends(we want to look for) permission. but what if friend change his/her mind later to block it? or what if the person abuses it to stock them? Is there any way to block it?



GPs is a great thing for parents who are worried to lost there children or people easly get lost. but I think it has some weak points like that and I think it should be solved.
we can't not live without the mobile anyway. and we don't want any harm from it. so I think GPS, really need to evolve little more.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Conversation with customers.

These days, communications are happening between many groups of people by various ways.
I think the most way they use is internet. Not very recently, but these days, companies and customers are communicating on the internet. I read about the ‘bob’ story (http://www.chrisbrogan.com/shut-up-youre-helping-the-customer/) and I defiantly do not agree with his boss.


In my opinion, what bob did was the right thing. He communicates with customers so they can trust bob, and more far, the company and their product. It is very nice to communicate with them and actually, many companies are trying to do it.


They make facebooks, or certain homepages that customers can use freely, and they even make a contest to encourage it. Media, Internet is the best way and cheap way to advertise their product and service customers. Not using it is very big loss in so many ways.



They can get closer to customers, and know what they think about current products, what they don’t like or do like, what they expect more or such things like that. Companies must use internet! It is great source of marketing and it is kind of crucial now a days. Of course, companies have to be trustful, honest, true, and clean.. They need to convince customers that they can believe them and have mind to want to purchase their product.


Company-customer conversation is now very very important. To make this work well, companies have to be honest about what they say and customers too. It is little but big thing they have to keep in mind. If they work like this in both ways, I think its win-win thing.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Two face of internet.

Since internet has been used all over the world, many thing has been changed.
I think most of them is good way, but like everything has two sides, there is also a bad thing happened.


In the speech of Doris Lessing()I felt that I am reading the artice of 70s or 80s. when there was discussion of TV's two sided effects. I think it is similar to that.
I understand her speech and why she said that(I think..). But I think her idea is not good because there are many good effects of internet too.


Like Andrew Keen said internet is maybe full of amatuers and their posting can't be right but people believes it. but in another way, readers are amatures too. they can learn or see thins about their view.



I agree with the opinion that internet is a big threat to printed media such as books and news paper. As a novelist, Doris might have felt that too. But is not 100% true. Internet sometimes helps writers. like advertisting in internet and help writer communicate with readers. Once, when I was in Korea, I saw an interview about famous writer in Korea. He said he knows that internet can be threat to publishing industry. bur in the other hand, it helps him to communicate with the readers. He is about 60, and he decided to write his next novel on the internet, on his blog. so he can communicate with readers fast.


Like him, experts use internet a lot too. and not like the old days, sometimes amatures ideas are more creative and trustworthy than experts one. for example, like wikipedia()There are so many things include some new words that we use on the internet. In that case, internet users are experts to that, not linguists, because they use it every day.




I'm not saying that theses two articles I read is totally wrong. In their view(novelist and expert), internet seems like their veiw and I understand. But I think they are amatures od Internet. so they don't know much about it and say those things. Experts always can be amatures in some feild. I think people should accept diversity and democratic and open character of internet.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The power of network,

The power of network is well-known and it gets stronger by the day.
It gets so stronger so, companies are no longer to ignore them.


There are many bloggers and internet users posting about product they use, or posting about their opinion about product/ company they purchase. Important thing is readers tend to believe their product experience or things like that more than company’s because they are in the same shoes. The consumer.


So companies are trying to make good reputation among consumers on internet by supporting best blogger or read many ideas and complain and reflect it. They consider about almost every complains and change service, advertisement. Not like old days, companied in 21C, even do the competition to have new ideas from customers. Companies these days are changing because of the network. They become more open, caring, good listener.

I think this is great aspect of network. Making communication between group and individual. It makes customers more powerful than old days and feels like they are more active to get their rights.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Hi!

Hi!
I just want to say few things about the comments!
I'v already left some comments to my blog circle friends.
since English is not my native language, I might got your points wrong.
If so, don't hesitate to tell me! Please let me know.
Thanks!

Facebook's change and reality mining.

Welcome to my blog again!
First, I'm not sure I got it right..But I’ll start anyway.
Two articles I read are both about the facebook which I'm not familiar with.

These days many people meet on on-line. Because of these modern people’s behavior patterns, many internet communities has been created and one of the most famous and popular thing in U.S now, is the Facebook. Like many other websites, face book is also making some changes. I like the idea about social graph, but some changes, I don’t think it’s really necessary. I don’t get what is good thing about connecting and communicate with celebrities, musicians, politicians and organizations. They can’t do it before?
Do celebrities, musicians, politicians and organizations write the post own their own? In this article, they said “You'll be able to keep up with all of their activity in your News Feed” so, I think it is just like an article in newspaper or magazine (except that you can write comments to them). Why facebook need this? And about the changes in home page, they said “The new home page will let you see everything that's shared by your friends and connections as it happen” Is this good thing to do? I think its little privacy problem. I know every change is not welcoming at first time but do facebook really need this change?

The second article I read is about Reality Mining and Facebook. Through this work, we can find out social network in communities and where disease started and so on. It’s really useful to find out where disease started and predict it but knowing social network and predict what they are going to do is little scary. It is good to have wide on-line community system and bring them to our lives, but sometimes, it can be risk to our privacy.I hope there are some regulations, so people can’t use it in negative way.


Thanks for reading.
Have a nice day!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

My First Blog Post:)

Hi! I'm yunjeong Lee from South Korea.
I'm abroad at AU student for 1 semester.
My major is business and I'm junior
I made this blog for my calss, On my honor, all posts on this blog are my own
Nice to meet you!