Social Networking and Rotary
Posted by Bernie Carriere
Rotary International has adopted social networking as a useful tool in communicating with and informing Rotarians - and the rest of the wired world.
While social media such as Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, YouTube have been in existence for only a few years, they are becoming some of the most popular effective ways of communicating.
In January 2007, there were 5,000 Twitter messages (tweets) sent per day. That number increased to 50 million messages per day in January, 2010.
FaceBook has 400 million active users, 50% of which log in at least once a day. There are 100 million active users who access FaceBook through mobile devices such as iPods and Blackberries.
There are 1.2 million Rotarians and many of them are using social networks and similar applications to tell the rest of the world about Rotary and to establish and maintain contacts with Rotarians locally, nationally and internationally.
Check out the offical Rotary pages for several Rotary media applications in the left section of our club's home page under Club Links.
In January 2007, there were 5,000 Twitter messages (tweets) sent per day. That number increased to 50 million messages per day in January, 2010.
FaceBook has 400 million active users, 50% of which log in at least once a day. There are 100 million active users who access FaceBook through mobile devices such as iPods and Blackberries.
There are 1.2 million Rotarians and many of them are using social networks and similar applications to tell the rest of the world about Rotary and to establish and maintain contacts with Rotarians locally, nationally and internationally.
Check out the offical Rotary pages for several Rotary media applications in the left section of our club's home page under Club Links.