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Eight Stories from the Social Media Global Report

Shel IsraelWriter. Speaker. Nice guyshelisrael1@gmail.comGlobalNeighbourhoods.netTwitter.com/shelisrael

How I got here•Some personal stuff

•Naked Conversations

•China 2.0

•Isaac Mao

Global Neighbourhoods

•SM is about conversations•2 friends talking•Geography less relevant•Build neighborhoods on interest

Social Media Global Report•Follow SM•115 interviews •34 countries/5 continents

US. China. Canada. Argentina. Brazil. Chile. Australia. Singapore. Cambodia. Japan. India. Russia. Estonia. Czech Republic. Ukraine. Croatia. Bulgaria. Poland. Rumania. Greece. Italy. Germany. France. Belgium. Spain. Scotland. Ireland. UK. South Africa. Kenya. Egypt. Saudi Arabia. Holland. Lebanon

Conversations w/world-changers

Isaac Mao, ChinaOpened my eyes to China

‘Hacking Harmony’

‘Sharism’ v. Communism

Michael Dell, Dell Computer2 billion people online by 2011

Conversations more valuable than ads.

Social Media is cost effective

Laurel Papworth, Silkworm

Saudi women like all women Anonymity

Mutual support

Jawad Boulos

Queen Rania

Francois Gossieaux, Beeline Labs

People are tribal

Communities change

Communities scale

Father Roderick, Amsterdam

PoTzxccxT

Very cool podcast

Modern, human church

People are different & alike

Wael Abbas Egypt Citizen-Journalist

Expose abuse on YouTube

Telling truth is “seditious”

YouTube take down

‘I will be replaced’

Ethan Bodnar, US Student

‘Why would I work for a company that won’t let me blog?’

Erik Hersman, Kenya

Kenyans not warlike

‘Ushahidi’ or ‘witness’

100% mobile apps

Basic lessons•Youth is the killer app•Tools change. People stay the same•Conversations are revolutionary•Generosity wins

China in Social Media•1.2 > 25 million bloggers in 4 yrs•Meteoric Facebook growth•Twitter growing•Joining Global Neighborhoods•Starts social. Goes everywhere.

Barriers: China & US•Language •Mutual ignorance•Face-to-face difficult•SM next best thing

My Ultimate Lesson•We are all alike

Shel IsraelWriter. Speaker. Nice Guy Email: shelisrael1@gmail.com Blog: globalneighbourhoods.netTwitter: shelisraelFriendfeed: shelisrael1Flickr: shelisrael