This is a really great post from Mark Goldberg

Among highlights from the infographic:

• Nearly 640 Terabytes of traffic are being transferred each minute by global IP networks;
• 6 million Facebook views; 2 million Google search queries;
• 30 hours of video are being uploaded to YouTube; and
• 1.3 million videos are being viewed.

Don't we all want to find ways to improve communications and share information and we don't always want to (or have time to) create an email to share information with others?

Well Google have created and released a brand new product to market that will be of interest to many.  

The +1 button is shorthand for "this is pretty cool" or "you should check this out."

Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1's can help friends, contacts, and others on the web find the best stuff when they search.

Read the Google +1 notes and watch a quick video here

You will see it already installed to this page (see the +1 button below) 

Quite an innovation!

Love this news article from the NZ Herald today and it is particularly relevant to business owners who wonder about managing their social media polilcies in the workplace.  

And I love the categorisation of Digital Natives versus Digital Immigrants and Digital Dinasours.  Which are you?

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Employers cracking down on Facebook at work are "cutting off the air supply" to the digital generation, says an Auckland academic.

While many bosses are locking out their workers from social networking sites, the University of Auckland's Michael Myers believed this is not the best way to deal with "digital natives".

"There's this wave of what we call digital natives coming into the workforce, this whole group of young people who come into organisations have used digital technologies right from when they were babies almost ... and simply banning communication tools like Facebook in the workplace is just not the answer to managing them," he said.

As the head of the university's department of information systems and operations management, Myers is spearheading an international study looking at the best way employers can work with this new demographic.

The full article is here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/employment/news/article.cfm?c_id=11&objectid=10729572