Presented by Katharine Robinson (aka TheSourceress) at the Executive Research Association Annual Conference on 6th April 2011.
This presentation represents some of the first things I learnt when I started out in Internet sourcing.
For more about the ERA see http://www.theera.org
1. Who Can You Find Online? By Katharine Robinson Find TheSourceress online
2. The Vital Statistics World Population: 6,845,609,960 Total Internet Users: 1,966,514,816 (That’s 29%) [As of March 2011] UK Population: 62,348,447 Total UK Internet Users: 51,442,100 (That’s 82.5%) UK Facebook Users: 27,806,860 (That’s 54% of internet users) [As of August 2010] How Much Information does the internet contain?
3. What are we all doing online in the uk? 1 in 4 UK internet users have a blog 60% of internet users read blogs 64 % have a profile on a Social Network ¼ use their mobile phone to surf the web 1 in 3 agree with the statement “I couldn’t live without the internet” [Stats via Simply Zesty Ltd]
4. Ever thought about googling for a candidate? A quick Google search for CV related data returns an estimated 800 million web pages.
31. Resources Using Google: Google Guide (not from Google): http://googleguide.com Advanced Search: http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search Google Alerts: http://google.com/alerts