Four States Regional Technology Conference

I recently attended a session on Social Media at the Four States Regional Technology Conference (FSRTC), and I honestly felt like I walked into the wrong session. The session was being presented by Wells Hall, and it was honestly more of a history lesson as opposed to what I was hoping it would be; a explanation and breakdown of how to promote and utilize social medias and apply them to a business.

After sitting in the session for a few minutes, I realized that I was completely bored with the lecture and where it was going, but despite this, there were a few things that caught my attention. Did you know that there are so many videos on YouTube.com that it would take a person 1,000 years to watch all the footage, if there were no more videos uploaded. Also briefly touched on was how people are being noticed for talents on YouTube.com. The example used was for a British lady by the name of Susan Boyle. Susan was a contestant on Britain's Got Talent, and wow'ed the panel and audience with her voice, she then became viral on YouTube, and her video became and instant hit by landing more than a million hits in a very short amount of time. By this, she landed a contract and by the new year, she had the number one selling album in the world that year.

Coincidence? I think not. The power of social media is mind boggling, to say the least. The contact that social media has is very vast. Virtually EVERYONE in a form of social media is connected, whether it be through friends on Facebook, or videos suggested, or friends telling you about videos on YouTube, you can bet that somehow, you are conected with someone, who is connected to another, and another... and along the line, you will be connected to someone on the complete opposite side of the world. This is the technology we live in today. This is the new word of mouth. This is Social Media!!