Netiquette IQ Blog Of 7/19/2016 - Great Social Media Facts

95 Awesome Social Media Facts You Should Not Ignore

 Jeff Bullas   www.jeffbullas.com

It’s only been 10 years but it feels like a lifetime.

Twitter has been around for a decade. I joined in 2008 and had no clue about what to do with it or where it was going but loved its simplicity. Somehow it worked.

Then I signed up to every new social media network that appeared. Pinterest looked promising, Instagram was exciting and Google+ was put on the map. But it didn’t deliver.

It was my new sand pit. Playing was compulsory and being serious was optional.

Today Snapchat is a social media upstart that has emerged late in the game. It resonated at first with teenagers and its disappearing photos that the grownups dismissed as a passing fad. But it’s shaking up the status quo. We are now are just starting to grasp its potential.

The reality is that the social media marketplace is continuing to mature. It’s also hard to know what will work and what won’t. As marketers we need to keep throwing mud at the wall and see what sticks. Sometimes we are surprised.

The wild west of free social networks and apps, cheap marketing tools and few rules is evolving into a grownup industry. It has some big implications for business, users and the the web. And the social media facts keep changing.

It is powering how we play, work and market. The reality is that it has just begun.

How does a new industry grow up?

The maturing of any industry has some common historical trends. Here are 3 that come to mind.

Consolidation

Any fast growing industry explodes onto the scene with a myriad of start-ups and then the game gets serious. The fastest growing companies with cash start buying strategic startups that allow them to accelerate and dominate an industry without having to build it themselves.

Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion, WhatsApp for $19 billion and the virtual reality startup Occulus Rift for $2 billion. Linkedin also bought Slideshare then Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.

Building it yourself even when you have bucketloads of cash doesn’t always work. Google’s failed $550 million Google+ startup is evidence of that.

Where does this stop?

It won’t. But don’t expect that Microsoft buying Linkedin will make it better. News Ltd bought MySpace and we know how that ended. With a bit of luck Microsoft will leave LinkedIn alone like Facebook has done with Instagram.

Land grabs

Applications that are a singular focus like Periscope with video live streaming are often introduced as a feature on a bigger platform.

It doesn’t mean they will do it well because often there is lack of focus.

But “Facebook live” is looking like it has some real potential to slow the Periscopes and the Meerkats of this world.

Open to closed

Tim Wiu (a professor from Columbia University) has some sobering insights on the patterns of the great information empires of the 20th century in his book “Master Switch –  The Rise and fall of Information Empires“.

“Each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before succumbing to the inevitable undertow of industrial consolidation. Every once free and open technology has, in time, become centralized and closed; as corporate power has taken control of the ‘master switch.‘

The open range free for all that is a new communication industry often becomes a walled and controlled garden.

Does our current euphoria and the unfolding events in the social media industry in the 21st century sound familiar?

Where’s social going?

Even as social starts to consolidate there are some trends and exciting product directions that are emerging. Here are three that I find the most interesting.

1. Streaming live video

Streaming live video broke into our conciousness in early 2015 with Meerkat becoming a hot property until Twitter cut off its access to its API and launched its competing Periscope app after buying the company.

Now we are seeing the rise of “Facebook Live”, and even Tumblr teaming up with YouTube to support live video on its service.

There are also some exciting startups that are including live video streaming in its feature sets. One of these is the video marketing platform Twentythree.net

2. Short lived content

Snapchat has caught many marketers flat footed as a marketing channel. Its high engagement metrics are starting to be noticed. Some insights on this: 35% of Facebook users upload photos every day while on Snapchat its 65%.

But the real power of engagement that brings users back everyday to Snapchat is its disappearing videos, images and messages.

Even Facebook has seen the future here and is about to launch a Snapchat style disappearing messages feature.

3. Virtual reality, social and mobile intersect

Virtual reality is still a promise and has been buried in the gaming niche. It’s now bubbling into the mainstream as the major social networks and media players start experimenting and launching hardware and apps.

But the explosion of the mobile app Pokemon Go has launched virtual reality into mainstream media press.

In just over 1 month since its launch it is creating some serious attention. Daily time spent by users is exceeding even Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter

This may see the start of virtual reality moving from niche to mainstream. Facebook has already seen this future with its purchase of the virtual reality company Occulus Rift over 2 years ago.

So what is the current state of social media? Here are some social media facts to ponder.

Social media facts from 10 different networks

Every now and then it’s worth looking at the current facts, cast our thoughts back to the past and ponder the future. Here are the latest facts that I could find about 10 of the top social media networks that as entrepreneurs. business owners and marketers we need to consider.

Snapchat facts

Snapchat was launched in September 2011 after Evan Spiegel presented it as class project at Stanford University while studying product design. It’s initial working title was “Picaboo” and was based on the concept of using images that were explicitly short-lived.

·         There are over 100 million active daily users

·         Snapchat users watch over 6 billion videos daily (remember they are only 10 seconds in length)

·         8,796 photos are shared every second

·         30% of media planners, agencies and brands plan to include Snapchat in their Super Bowl campaigns

·         65% of Snapchat users upload photos every day

·         76% of millennials use Snapchat

Facebook facts

Facebook has been with us since February 2004. It’s current valuation is $350 billion. It may become the world’s first trillion dollar company.

·         Facebook users now total 1.65 billion monthly users

·         823 million mobile only users

·         Net income for first quarter 2016 was $1.51 billion

·         Facebook’s current market value is $321 billion

·         It so far has spent over $25 billion buying competitors (Including Instagram, WhatsApp and the virtual reality company Occulus)

·         83% of parents on Facebook are friends with their children on Facebook2

·         Facebook adds half a million new users every day

·         47% of all Internet users are on Facebook

·         4.5 billion likes are generated daily

·         Facebook takes up 22% of Internet time (compared to 11% for Google and YouTube combined)

·         Facebook has 19% of the $70 billion spent on global mobile advertising

·         78% of Facebook advertising revenue comes from mobile ads

Stats source: Brandwatch

Instagram facts

Instagram has just hit half a billion users. Facebook paid $1 billion for it in 2012 and was seen as possibly foolish at the time. In hindsight it is now looking very wise and astute. Current estimated value? According to Bank of America it could be as high as $37 billion.

·         500 million monthly users

·         20% of all internet users are on Instagram

·         Average engagement on Instagram posts is 1.1%

·         91% of all Instagram posts are photos

·         90% of all Instagram users are younger than 35

·         41% of Instagram users are aged between 16 and 24

·         47% of Millenials use Instagram as a messaging app (compared to 50% for Facebook messenger)

·         One third of teenagers say Instagram is their most important social network

·         28% of Us users use Instagram

·         Instagram has doubled each year for the past 2 years

·         80 million photos are uploaded daily

Twitter facts

Twitter is struggling but with over 300 million users it is still a social network worth taking seriously. As its timeline is still quite open the platform is often used as a metric to measure online influence.

·         It currently has 310 million monthly users

·         In 2015 it had revenue of $2.2 billion

·         Katy Perry has over 85 million followers on Twitter

·         The most retweeted tweet is the Oscar selfie by Ellen DeGeneres at 3.4 million times

·         500 million people view Twitter without logging in

·         1 billion people each month view sites with embedded tweets

·         200 billion tweets are sent every year

·         500 million tweets are sent each day

·         Donald Trump has 7 million followers on Twitter

YouTube facts

YouTube is almost seen as a dinosaur on the modern social web (started on February 14, 2005) but the numbers show it’s a big dinosaur and still growing. Google’s acquisition in 2006 for $1.65 billion that seems insignificant with it now being valued around $80 billion.

·         YouTube has over 1.3 billion users

·         One third of the world’s Internet population use YouTube

·         Adele’s song “Hello” only took 5 days to reach 100 million views

·         In the USA YouTube reaches more 18-49 year olds than the cable networks

·         On mobile the average viewing time on YouTube is 40 minutes

·         More than 50% of all YouTube views are on mobile

·         You can use 76 different languages on YouTube

·         Growth in watch time is up over 50% year on year for the last 3 years

·         5 billion videos are watched every day1

·         It costs $6.3 billion to open up the doors every year and keep YouTube running and maintained

·         PewDiePie is YouTube’s highest paid YouTube partner at $12.5 billion1

Flipboard facts

It is now six years since Flipboard launched and often not taken as seriously  as it should be by digital and content marketers. I have been using it for 2 years and it sometimes drives more traffic than Facebook to my site.

How do I use it?

Created my own personal magazine and then “flip” the posts into it after publishing it on the blog.

·         Flipboard has approximately 90 million users

·         Flipboard doubled its monthly users from 40 million to 80 million in less than a year

·         JP Morgan led a $50 million funding round in Flipboard in 2014.

·         Flipboard’s total funding is $210.5 million

·         It is valued between $800 million and $1.32 billion

·         The top three user interests on Flipboard are Tech, news and design

LinkedIn facts

LinkedIn has just been bought by Microsoft. It will be interesting to see how that affects its evolution and growth. But there is one thing you should keep in mind.

If you are an avid user of linkedIn and rely almost exclusively on it for leads and creating business relationships then be very careful that you don’t do this.

Put all your eggs in a basket you don’t own.

·         Linkedin has more than 433 million members worldwide

·         Over 25 million Linkedin profiles are viewed every day

·         First quarter revenue for 2016 was $861 million

·         Full year revenue for 2016 is projected to reach $3.7 billion

·         Microsoft bought Linkedin for $26.2 billion

·         9 percent growth year on year

·         105 million unique visiting members per month

·         60 percent mobile usage

·         45 billion quarterly member page views

·         101 percent annual growth every year with its job listing

·         There are more than 7 million active job listings

·         One in twenty Linkedin profiles belong to recruiters

·         One out of every three professionals on the planet are on LinkedIn

·         200 conversations per minute occur in LinkedIn groups

Statistics source: Udacity.com and LinkedIn

Infographic source: Remessaged

WhatsApp facts

WhatsApp began as a simple idea: Their mission? “Ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way“.

It’s about the art of keeping it simple and minimalist. It worked.

·         WhatsApp started in 2009.

·         Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion

·         It now has over one billion users

·         1 million new users join every day

·         42 billion messages are sent every 24 hours

·         32% of millennials use Whatsapp globally

·         1.6 billion photos are shared daily

·         250 million video messages are sent a day

·         There are over 1 billion groups on Whatsapp

·         57 engineers are employed by the company

Source of stats: Whatsapp, Expandedramblings

Pinterest facts

Pinterest is not a big viral network but it should not be ignored. It is great for targeting a female demographic and a target market in anything visual.

This includes design, photography, fashion and food as starters.

·         Pinterest has 100 million users

·         It is valued at $11 billion

·         85% of Pinterest users are female

·         Each pin is repinned on average 10 times

·         Pinterest pins drive 4 website traffic hits

·         Users spend an average of 15 minutes on Pinterest per visit

·         75% of Pintetest traffic comes from mobile apps

·         Images with 50% colour saturation get shared 10x more than black and white images

·         Red or orange images get shared 200% more than other colors

Stats sources: Letstalksocial.com, Expandedramblings.com,Likeable.com

Periscope facts

Periscope is now a Twitter company and maybe its best acquisition to date. But Facebook Live is now a big potential threat. Watch this space.

·         Last reported number of users was 10 million in mid 2015

·         Periscope has given birth to more than 200 million live broadcasts

·         Twitter paid $87 million for Periscope in 2015

·         There are  10 million accounts on the Periscope mobile app.

·         75% of Periscope users are between the age of 16 and 34

·         The USA House Democrats sit-in was viewed 1 million times on Periscope

·         It streams 110 years worth of video every day

Wrapping it up

How have your social media habits changed over the years? What are you using today? What social networks and media are you intending to use or test in the next 12 months. What’s not working for you now that worked in the past.

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Tabula Rosa Systems Security Bulletin From US-CERT - Summary for the Week of July 11, 2016

National Cyber Awareness System:

SB16-200: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 11, 2016

07/18/2016 06:53 AM EDT

Original release date: July 18, 2016

The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For modified or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information===================================== ===============================
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·         Receive more responses, interviews, appointments, prospects and sales.

·         Be better understood.

·         Eliminate indecisin.

·         Avoid being spammed 100% or more.

·         Have recipient finish reading your email content. 

·         Save time by reducing questions.

·         Increase your level of clarity.

·         Improve you time management with your email.

·        Have quick access to a wealth of relevant email information.

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Another Special Announcement - Tune in to my radio interview,  on Rider University's station, www.1077thebronc.com I discuss my recent book, above on "Your Career Is Calling", hosted by Wanda Ellett.   

In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.

I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email, network management software, security products and professional services.  Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.

Over the past twenty-five years, I have enjoyed a dynamic and successful career and have attained an extensive background in IT and electronic communications by selling and marketing within the information technology marketplace.Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.
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Tabula Rosa Systems Security Bulletin - Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates

National Cyber Awareness System:

Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates

07/18/2016 05:13 PM EDT

Original release date: July 18, 2016

Apple has released security updates for iTunes, Safari, tvOS, watchOS, iOS, and OS X El Captain. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system.
Available updates include:

• iTunes 12.4.2 for Windows 7 and later
• Safari 9.1.2 for OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11.6
• tvOS 9.2.1 for Apple TV (4th generation)
• watchOS 2.2.2 for Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
• iOS 9.3.3 for iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
• OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 and Security Update 2016-004 for OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple security updates for iTunes, Safari, tvOS, watchOS, iOS, and OS X El Captain and apply the necessary updates.

Where Books Are All But Nonexistent

In many high-poverty urban neighborhoods, it’s nearly impossible for a poor child to find something to read in the summer.

L    JulIA WONG JUL 14, 2016 www.thr atlantic.com

Forty-five million. That’s how many words a typical child in a white-collar familywill hear before age 4. The number is striking, not because it’s a lot of words for such a small human—the vast majority of a person’s neural connections, after all,are formed by age 3—but because of how it stacks up against a poor kid’s exposure to vocabulary. By the time she’s 4, a child on welfare might only have heard 13 million words.

This disparity is well-documented. It’s the subject of myriad news stories andgovernment programs, as well as the Clinton Foundation’s “Too Small to Fail” initiative, all of which send the message that low-income parents should talk and read to their children more. But these efforts to close the “word gap” often overlook a fundamental problem. In high-poverty neighborhoods, books—the very things that could supply so many of those 30 million-plus words—are hard to come by. In many poor homes, they’re nonexistent.

“Book reading really provides the words the children need to learn,” said Susan Neuman, a childhood- and literacy-education researcher at New York University who served as the assistant education secretary under George W. Bush. “Frankly, when you and I talk to our children, we’re talking in a baby-talk-like way—we’re not using sophisticated language. But even a very low-level preschool book like a Dr. Seuss book has more sophisticated vocabulary than oral discourse. So it’s really about the print gap and not the oral-word gap.”

In 2001, Neuman co-authored a study that found that in a middle-class community in Philadelphia, each child had access to 13 books. In a community of concentrated poverty in the same city, on the other hand, there was only a single age-appropriate book per 300 kids—or about 33 titles total, all of which were coloring books. Now, she’s out with a new study, published this month in the journal Urban Education, that helps paint a clearer picture of the nation’s “book deserts,” finding intense disparities in access to children’s reading resources in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.—even between a very poor neighborhood and a slightly-less-poor one within a given city.

Neuman and her co-author on the new study, Naomi Moland, an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, walked and biked the streets of two neighborhoods in each of the aforementioned cities, meticulously combing each block for businesses selling print resources for kids of any age, including fiction and nonfiction books and newspapers. Overall, they found just 75 such stores—or about 2 percent of all the businesses in those neighborhoods—selling print resources for children ages 0 through 18; many of them were dollar stores. And especially after breaking down the data by neighborhood and age group, it became clear: Children’s books are a rarity in high-poverty urban communities. The likelihood that a parent could find a book for purchase in these areas, Neuman and Moland write, “is very slim.”

“How do you become literate when there are no available resources?”

Take D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, where nearly all the population is black and 61 percent of children live in poverty. When the research was conducted in the summer of 2014, it didn’t have a single store selling a book for preschoolers, and there were only five books available for kids in grades K-12. In other words, 830 children would have to share a single book in the impoverished Washington neighborhood. “Book stores in the U.S. are becoming a rare bird, but [in places like this], there are no bookstores at all,” Neuman said. “How do you become literate when there are no available resources?”

The new study adds to a growing body of research demonstrating how income-based housing segregation undermines the prospects of America’s youngest citizens, with the rich leaving “the poor and the near poor to scramble for resources that would have otherwise benefited a larger share of the population,” Neuman and Moland write. But it also shows the nuanced ways in which poverty shapes the country’s communities—how drastically access to something as basic as a book can change from one neighborhood to another just a short drive away. Neighborhoods with 40 percent or more of their residents living in poverty have grown at troubling rates in the last few decades, but so have areas known as “borderline” neighborhoods, in which 20 percent to 40 percent of people live in poverty.

Just a couple of miles north of Anacostia, for example, in the borderline Washington neighborhood known as Capitol Hill, Neuman and Moland found more than 2,000 children’s print resources in stores—i.e., a book for every two kids. While still equipped with relatively few reading resources, the borderline neighborhoods the researchers studied, overall, had 16 times as many books as their high-poverty counterparts.

Equating access to books with access to stores that sell books is hardly perfect, but it makes a good deal of sense when considering the existing data on the book habits and day-to-day realities of low-income families. Statistically, poor families are far less likely to utilize public libraries, whether it’s because they’re not acclimated to using them or because they’re worried about being charged late fines, or because they’re skeptical of putting their name on a card associated with a government entity. Neuman has found that only 8 percent of such families report they have taken advantage of library resources.

Meanwhile, even though parents could in theory easily order books for their kids from online stores like Amazon, a perhaps surprising percentage of low-income families lack access to high-speed internet at home—a little over half of those with children under 8, according to a 2013 study. And only 61 percent of poor families with young children, according to the same study, have internet-enabled mobile devices. That means the presence of brick-and-mortar stores where books are sold can be critical, especially during the summer months when poor children aren’t in school and lose many of the academic skills they developed over the previous year.

As with exposure to vocabulary, access to books can have both immediate and longer-term impacts on a child’s academic and socioeconomic outcomes. Living in a book desert “may seriously constrain young children’s opportunities to come to school ‘ready to learn,’” Neuman and Moland write. A lack of access to books may help explain why, according to some research, children from economically disadvantaged communities score 60 percent lower on kindergarten-readiness tests that assess kids’ familiarity with knowledge as basic as sounds, colors, and numbers. And researchers say living in a book desert in one’s early years can have psychological ripple effects: “When there are no books, or when there are so few that choice is not an option, book reading becomes an occasion and not a routine,” they write.

According to Neuman, who, as the assistant education secretary under Bush, was in charge of implementing No Child Left Behind, the stalled achievement rates of the country’s children show that more emphasis needs to be placed on what happens in their lives outside of schools. “We have seen that No Child Left Behind was an effort to really improve schools while ignoring parent education,” she said. “What we realize is that children are out of school more than they’re in it.” Contrary to the conventional assumption that academic interventions can only happen in school, she continued, some of the most critical factors in kids’ achievement involve family and environment.

Ultimately, giving kids access to books may be one of the most overlooked solutions to helping ensure kids attend school with the tools they need to succeed. As an experiment, Neuman and her team—with funding from JetBlue, which also helped fund her latest research—set up a vending machine in a busy area in Anacostia last summer where kids could pick up books for free. Within six weeks, according to Neuman, 27,000 books were given away. “It’s designed to say to people, ‘strike down that notion that these people don’t care about their children’—they deeply care,” she said. “What they lack are the resources to enable their children to be successful.”

===================================== ========================== Good Netiquette And A Green Internet To All! 

Special Bulletin - My just released book, 

"You're Hired. Super Charge our Email Skills in 60 Minutes! (And Get That Job...) 

is now on sales at Amazon.com 

Great Reasons for Purchasing Netiquette IQ

·         Get more email opens.  Improve 100% or more.

·         Receive more responses, interviews, appointments, prospects and sales.

·         Be better understood.

·         Eliminate indecisin.

·         Avoid being spammed 100% or more.

·         Have recipient finish reading your email content. 

·         Save time by reducing questions.

·         Increase your level of clarity.

·         Improve you time management with your email.

·        Have quick access to a wealth of relevant email information.

Enjoy most of what you need for email in a single book.

 =================================

**Important note** - contact our company for very powerful solutions for IP
 management (IPv4 and IPv6, security, firewall and APT solutions:
www.tabularosa.net
==================================================

Another Special Announcement - Tune in to my radio interview,  on Rider University's station, www.1077thebronc.com I discuss my recent book, above on "Your Career Is Calling", hosted by Wanda Ellett.   

In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.

I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email, network management software, security products and professional services.  Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.

Over the past twenty-five years, I have enjoyed a dynamic and successful career and have attained an extensive background in IT and electronic communications by selling and marketing within the information technology marketplace.Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.
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