SOCIAL MEDIA IN NUMBERS: • One in every nine people on the planet uses Facebook (over 850 million) • If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest (behind only China and India) • YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month • People upload 3,000 pictures to Flickr....every minute • Twitter is adding around 500,000 members per day The numbers are pretty impressive, aren’t they?
Whilst working in Asia, I visited Jakarta a number of times – for business and to visit friends. One friend of mine was working at the Mercantile Athletic Club, situated on the top floor of the World Trade Centre. The club had a private lift, which was manned by a very jolly fellow called Yoppi (who taught me my first few Indonesian words). One day
Adapting to life in Vietnam took a while, but my colleagues and team members helped enormously. My membership team were a little sceptical at first, but I soon felt that I was winning them around. “Sarah, you are so strong” they would often say – which I took to mean that they respected my firm management style. It wasn’t until some months later that someone