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Erik Qualman is an American author of Socialnomics, which according to WorldCat, is held in 1090 libraries. He is also the author of Digital Leader and What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube. In 2010, Socialnomics was a Book of the Year finalist as voted on by the American Marketing Association. In 2012 he was a finalist for the Most Likeable Author Award alongside Seth Godin and JK Rowling.

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The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.

Exist, Media, Roi, Years

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

140, Character, Kids, Quick, Similarly, Tools

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

First Time, Firsts, History, History Repeats Itself, Nobody, Repeats

The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.

Addresses, Beauty, Flaws, Keys, Media, Point

Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.

Generated, Links, Top, Twenties, World

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

Agendas, Balloons, Company, Media, Social, Water

To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable.

Information, Make, Needs, Social Media, Transferable

Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless.

Ownership, Priceless, Referrals, Taking

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

Everything, Measurable, Mindset, Should

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

Brew, Counter Culture, Jobs, Silicon, Together

With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

Creating, Hero, Influential, Technology, Time

We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.

Choice, Choices, Media, Question, Success

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

Comfortable, Communication, Generation, Interpersonal, Talking, Young Generation

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

Consistently, Finding Yourself, Hunting, Jobs, Large, Networking

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Officer, Run, Running, Space, Starting, Technology

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

Business, Media, News, Search, Services, Wish

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

Folks, Heard, Listened, Want

That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc. , without having to set up a new profile for that site.

Etc, Like, Tools, Wall, Walls, Web

At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

Flow, Media, Search, Services, Technology, Thinking

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

Party, Powerful, Publishers, Successful

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