Social Media - I'm going with the trend

I have been skeptical up until now about social media and perhaps also some laziness that has keep me from fully engaging in social media. Recently this book Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms by Michelle Golden came highly recommended to me. I'm not done reading it and it is already changing my mind. I still have to select which tools I will use but blogging will become more frequent here.

The book is not as much of "how to do it" but more about why it is important for businesses to be active in Social media.

Here are few reviews on the book 

Enjoy!

Steve Job's and Bill Gates share the platform

Found this video from here where Steve Job's and Bill Gates share the platform in 2007. Excellent big picture  overview of the technology
 

Entrepreneurs see an additional color

Came across this excellent video on entrepreneurship


Here are a few additional quotes from this website
http://www.povertycure.org/voices/andreas-widmer/

“Research has shown that in prosperous countries, 95% of all companies are small and medium-sized companies. They employ seventy-five percent of the entire workforce in places like Europe or, or America. They contribute— over fifty percent of all the GDP comes from SMEs, not from multinational large corporations. If you look at that same distribution in emerging markets, in poor countries, you see that there are a lot of very small companies and a few very large companies and nobody in the middle.” “Yet we know that that middle is what carries the economy, that is how you grow an economy and create a middle class. That is called the Missing Middle. And one of the things we really need to start focusing on is how do you grow that Missing Middle in emerging markets; how do you get these small and medium-sized companies to grow.”