Nashville Technology Council

SOCIAL NETWORKS CAN BE ANTI-SOCIAL FOR YOUR COMPUTER
Don’t let bad apps or bad people into your life by sharing too much

One of the biggest growth areas for Facebook in the past year is with the baby boomers that have found that the social network site allows old friends back into their lives. A Nashville company wants you to think about whom Facebook is allowing into your computer that may negatively impact your life. iNet Strategy has been providing IT solutions to businesses for the past decade but founder and CEO Robert Morris has become alarmed lately at what he has seen on Facebook that can cause people problems. “I saw an old acquaintance on Facebook and among his pictures was a copy of his driver’s license that had been scanned” Morris commented recently. “That’s an extreme instance of opening yourself up, but there are many ways that Facebook opens up your computer to intruders. People are also unsure about the privacy/security settings on Facebook.” The IT solutions firm for businesses figured that they had the expertise to help with the problem.

iNet Strategy has now made its Live Support service available to the public. The support service was formerly just to aid their many business clients, but now the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner is helping people figure out what in the world wide web has gotten into their lives. With Facebook being a “social” network people are tempted to be open and sociable with information that they share but there will always be those waiting to take advantage. Morris says that some of the fun and games that people enjoy can be anything but fun and games if the wrong person is on the other side of the connection. “Some of the fan applications for sports teams or enhancements to games that are played on the platform are nothing but ways for people with bad intentions to get into your computer” says Morris. Through the iNet Strategy website the company has live support representatives available to help. “If your shortcut to get your barn built has made your whole computer run slower, then you might need our help to fix the problem,” says the CEO. Experienced computer technicians are available on line to remotely fix any of your computer problems from spyware, viruses, security issues or just helping you figure out how to make your Facebook account more secure from leaking your personal data and information. You will only pay for the time that techs are actually working on your machine. The service can be reached at www.inetstrategy.com and clicking on the “chat with a live agent” icon or you can leave a message and arrange for a representative to get back to you at a convenient time.

Your computer and the various on-line services can open up a world of possibilities for you. Don’t let those same services open up your computer to the world of bad guys out there. Safeguard your personal information with help from the IT experts at iNet Strategy,

About iNet Strategy:
iNet Strategy is a privately owned Information Technology Professional and Master Managed Services firm headquartered in the Middle Tennessee market since 1996. Additionally, thru nationwide service partners iNet delivers onsite IT solutions to customers throughout the nation.

iNet Strategy focuses on gaining a solid understanding of your business challenges, and is committed to your organization’s success. iNet Strategy provides solutions for companies of varying sizes and needs at very competitive rates and their vast experience covers a broad range of eCommerce and network solutions across a variety of industries.

In the past 10 years iNet Strategy has deployed over $100 million in IT projects and in the past 5 years applications developed for clients have processed 234 million patient prescription refills!

For more information go to www.inetstrategy.com or contact Robert Morris, CEO at 615-835-4305

Nashville Tech Story (11/10/09)

Now you can spam your LinkedIn profile with a cryptic 140 character messages.  Thanks to a new partnership between Twitter and LinkedIn, you can now sync your updates on both platforms.  For the business users of LinkedIn, get ready for more updates about the kids, day-dreaming, and other stream of conscience thoughts.  It should be interesting.  Before you go ranting and raving too much, you might want to think about everyone who has linked to you in your professional persona!

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The Nashville Tech Story (8/18/2009)
by Jake Hird, Research Analyst for Econsultancy

The social media statistics I posted a few weeks ago seemed to strike a chord amongst the digital community, especially in highlighting just how big an issue this particular area of online currently is. So I’m happy to say that I’ve trawled around the internet to bring you some more snippets of useful data and awesome figures.

As before, all this information is likely to be out of date in six months or so, but until then, they’re reasonably recent facts and I feel they demonstrate the meteoric rise and importance of this rapidly evolving area of online.

In no particular order:

• Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites. 
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world. This means it easily beats the likes of Brazil, Russia and Japan in terms of size.
• 80% of companies use, or are planning to use, LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching their 45-millionth membership. 
• Around 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week during campaigns, with 39% using it for 10 or more hours per week. 
• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners. Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The internet took four years to reach 50 million people.  In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users.  
• Wikipedia currently has more than 13 million articles in more than 260 different languages. The site attracts over 60 million unique users a month and it’s often debated that the information it contains is more reliable than any printed Encyclopedia. 
• The most recent figure of blogs being indexed by Technorati currently stands at 133 million. The same report into the Blogosphere also revealed that on average, 900,000 blog posts are created within a single 24-hour period. 
• It’s been suggested that YouTube is likely to serve over 75 billion video streams to around 375 million unique visitors during this year. 
• The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.
• According to Socialnomics, if you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $156.23 per hour. 
• The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.  
• Since April this year, Twitter has been receiving around 20 million unique visitors to the site each month, according to some analytical sources.  
• Formed in 2004, Flickr now hosts more than 3.6 billion user images.  
• Universal McCann reported that 77% of all active internet users regularly read blogs.

Some Nashville related statistics, according to NashMash.com:

• There are currently 19,991 Twitter users in the Nashville area.
• One of the most influential Twitter users in the Nashville area is Dave Delaney of Griffin Technology.
• This month alone, more than 46,000 tweets have been posted on Twitter. 

For more information and other interesting articles revolving around this topic, visit www.econsultancy.com