Connecting with people, sharing and socializing have become common every day tasks with social tools like Facebook, Twitter and Google (to name a few). How are these tools connecting us with our friends, new people, impacting our networks and influencing our decisions today and in the future? Why is the power of "people trends" so important? What does it mean to find answers when you need them? What does it mean for how companies speak to their consumers?

1. Poke Me! Influence of the social web Email: [email_address] Twitter: @dszuc

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8. How did I get here?

9. What does Dan do?

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11. Who uses?

17. Why?

19. Who remembers?

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28. Who has heard of the “social web”?

29. Who has heard of “facebook”?

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39. Who has a mobile phone?

40. mobile madness

41. http://www.cw.com.hk/content/hong-kong-mobile-data-usage-hits-147-terabytes "Apart from mobile data usage, the number of 2.5G/3G mobile phone users has increased by 15 percent on a year-on-year basis reaching 3.35 million in January 2009. The total number of mobile phone users is 11.43 million and this represents a penetration rate of more than 163 percent” .

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52. Trust & Influence

53. Shout out “description words” (what you feel about them)

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75. So why is this important?

79. Knowing more about you

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