This is a deck I used for the first class of the semester. The class is called All Things Digital at the mSchool at Loyola Marymount University. The purpose was to spark conversation with the students - and believe me - it did!

1. How Connected Have We Become?
Michael Weiss
Adjunct Professor
January 16, 2013

2. What’s the first thing you do in
the morning?

3. 85% of Americans have a cell phone
*PEW

4. 45% have a smart phone
*PEW

5. 25% have a tablet
45% have a smart phone
*PEW

6. 61% have a laptop
25% have a tablet
45% have a smart phone
*PEW

7. 18% have an ebook reader
61% have a laptop
25% have a tablet
45% have a smart phone
*PEW

8. Americans are
Connected
* MIT senseable city lab

9. Community Redefined

10. Would You Rather Call or Text?

11. How Many Texts Per Day?

12. Technology goes beyond the phone

13. One of Six People In The World
Is On Facebook

14. 17 billion location-tagged posts and check-ins logged.
Average User Has 130 Friends
23% of Users Check Their Account 5+ Times A Day
250 Million Photos Uploaded Every Day
488 million users regularly use Facebook
mobile.
85% of women are annoyed by their friends on
Facebook.

15. 77% of B2C companies
&43%of B2B companies
acquired customers from
Facebook

16. In 2011 there were 7.5 million
kids under the age of 13 on
Facebook
*Consumer Reports

17. 5 million were under 10
*Consumer Reports

18. 1 million accounts are everyday.
There are 175 million tweets sent
from Twitter every day.
Since the dawn of Twitter, there's been a total
of 163 billion tweets.
The most followed brand on Twitter is YouTube with
19 million followers.
56% of customer tweets to companies are being
ignored.

19. 34% of marketers have
generated leads using Twitter.

20. What About TV?

21. The percent
of DVR
usage has
grown
fivefold from
a mere 1.6%
in 2006 to
almost 8% in
*Neilsen 2012

22. Leading the trend in DVR usage
are females 18-54, who allot
almost 10% of their TV
viewing time to a DVR.
*Neilsen 2012

23. *Neilsen 2012

24. What Would You Do If You
Lost Power?