1. Networks are important Slugger Consults

2. Exponential shift… A time like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. Its the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. TOM STOPPARD, Arcadia (1993)

3. This year Generation Y will outnumber the Babyboomers

4. 96% of them have joined a social network

5. 1 out of 8 couples who married in the US in 2008 met through social network sites

6. If Facebook were a country it would be 4 th largest

7. 80% of companies in the US use LinkedIn as their primary tool to source their employees

8. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen de Generes have more Twitter followers than the populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama

9. 25% of search results for the Worlds Top 20 brands are links to user generated content.

10. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations

11. Only 14% trust advertising

20. Some thoughts… The secret is sincerity. If you can fake that, youve got it made GEORGE BURNS, actor comedian I use not only the brains I have, but all that I can borrow WOODROW WILSON, US President Once a new technology rolls over you, if you are not part of the steamroller, you are part of the road STUART BRAND, futurologist

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