Inaugural AZIMA Meeting Was a Hit! Next Up: Facebook
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Last night was AZIMA‘s inaugural meeting, and nine of us here at Vertical Measures attended. Hosted at the Tempe Mission Palms, we enjoyed a nice social hour accompanied by a pasta bar and informative presentation by Chris Murch, from wsRadio.com.
Worth noting are several upcoming events including an education webinar by Howie Jacobson, PhD, author of AdWords For Dummies, on Tuesday July 21st. Howie will be discussing Top Tips for Improving Poor Performing Paid Search Campaigns.Another event we’re excited about is the next AZIMA evening event, "How To Effectively Engage Others On Social Networks" on August 11th. Mark Wallrap, Scott Iden, and Rick Eisen from Facebook will be presenting some need-to-know information.
Facebook is the largest social networking site on the web. Yesterday Facebook announced on their blog that there are now 250 million Facebook users worldwide. Just three and a half months ago (98 days to be exact) Facebook reported 200 million Facebook users. That’s a rate of roughly 510,204 signups a day, about 350 a minute, and 5.5 per second, give or take a few.
iStrategyLabs.com reports that in the last six months alone the 55 year olds and up have flocked to Facebook in massive numbers, increasing that overall demographic by 513%! Surprisingly, the report also
states that students, both high school and college, have decreased by 20%. They chalked this up to more and more adults flocking to the site causing an alienation of the younger groups. Not so cool to have your parents on the same social networking site? Guess not. It could, in part, have something to do with the fact that many seniors graduated in May and June as well, but those items don’t seem to have been factored into the report.
states that students, both high school and college, have decreased by 20%. They chalked this up to more and more adults flocking to the site causing an alienation of the younger groups. Not so cool to have your parents on the same social networking site? Guess not. It could, in part, have something to do with the fact that many seniors graduated in May and June as well, but those items don’t seem to have been factored into the report.Fan boxes have been added to Facebook, another great tool for business owners, celebrities, and the like. These embeddable widgets can be placed on your website, updating your site visitors with the valuable information contained in your Facebook news feed. Celebs like Lance Armstrong have already implemented this feature onto their site.
Lots of exciting news about Facebook! Don’t miss out on the AZIMA event, August 11th at 6:00 p.m. Early registration will be available soon, so check back often to secure your seat at the next social event and while your waiting join AZIMA and be apart of a great new interactive marketing association in Arizona.
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The inaugural meeting of AZIMA will be held this Tuesday, July 14th, at Tempe Mission Palms in Tempe, AZ. Guest speaker, Chris Murch of 
