Trends in Social Media: Are Most People Using Social?

By Michael Stelzner
Published February 24, 2012

In this video I interview Tom Webster, vice president, strategy and marketing at Edison Research.

Tom shares insights into current trends in social media.

You’ll also discover why you need to know how research is carried out and how to interpret social media trends.

Tom gives you the questions you need to ask before following these trends to drive your business forward successfully.

Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.

Here are some of the things you’ll learn in this video:

• Where to expect growth in social media in the future
• The challenges of conducting social media research
• Why you need to know what you don’t know
• How non-response bias impacts research data
• How businesses should make sense of social media research
• Why you should not develop answers based on research
• Ask your customers “Hey, is this a problem or not?”
• The roles of social media monitoring: real-time data and “slow data”
• Why you need to also do research on changes over time
• Why you need to look at data and ask what’s missing

Connect with Tom on Twitter @webby2001, at Edison Research and check out Tom’s blog: Brand Savant.

What do you think? Do you do any research on your social media activities? What’s been your experience? Please leave your comments below.

Tags: brandsavant, edison research, How To, michael stelzner, social media data, social media research, social media studies, social media trends, tom webster

About the Author, Michael Stelzner

Michael Stelzner is the founder and CEO of Social Media Examiner, and author of the books Launch and Writing White Papers. He's also the host of the Social Media Marketing podcast. Other posts by Michael Stelzner »