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Nobody, not even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself, has yet successfully produced a proven, sustainable and scalable business model that can satisfactorily monetize the vast ecosystem of the social networks — Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. The reason for this could be rooted in the basic noncommercial nature of social networking services.
California’s Orange County is known famously worldwide as the home of Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm, John Wayne and Richard Nixon, citrus crops and beige master-planned communities, babes and beaches. But OC is also coming into its own as the hub in a Southern California green tech corridor stretching along the I-5 and 405 freeways from Los Angeles in the north all the way to the Mexican border on the south.
Green’s got the blues. “Dark Days for Green Energy,” declared a headline in the Feb. 4 issue of The New York Times. “Because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn … installation of wind and solar power is plummeting,” reported the Times. Green energy’s melancholia extends to cousin “green IT.”
Social media outsourcing will be the next big business opportunity for India after business process outsourcing and knowledge process outsourcing, contends Gaurav Mishra, Yahoo fellow in residence at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.
The familiar social media paradigm of “Listen … Learn … Engage … Earn” has a correlative imperative: “Publish or Perish,” and enterprises probably need to find someone else to do the job for them. But be really careful about whom you select. I’ve covered the specifics of B2B digital media relations and social media marketing in previous articles.