subject: Welcome To Your World [print this page] This is the first of what we hope to be many, many years of communications with our clients, colleagues, friends, and familyand maybe even our competition. We are wildly excited about what Onyx Global HR can do to increase individual and organizational effectiveness. And we are here to stay.
Our vision is to provide a different and highly valuable level of human resources effectiveness expertise that is hard to find anywhere but Onyx. We believe that the world wants less corporate brick and mortar monuments, less invoicing that reflects a cost for the work of people who are learning on the jobthe one you need help with, and fewer margins gained at their expense.
Globalization and technology has raised the bar and compels business partners (service providers) to really examine what they are giving in return for the big fees theyre receiving. We want to work hard at impacting your organizations bottom line. That is the future of HR. No excuses. We have the expertise and the creativity to help others grow and we will leverage innovation in every instance to make the point.
Consider this interesting bit of information that I picked up from the link to the Social Media Revolution:
Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth has now become world of mouth.
In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media.
Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy listening first, selling second.
Successful companies in social media also act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser.
Twenty-four of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because the Web is now the primary news source.
By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers 96 percent of them have joined a social network.
Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passIn 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen.
Social Media has overtaken porn as the number one activity on the Web.
Three out of eight couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media.
Years to reach 50 million users:
Radio 38 years
TV 13 years
The Internet four years
iPod three years
Facebook added 100 million users in less than nine months.
iPhone applications hit one billion in nine months.
If Facebook was a country it would be the worlds fourth largest between the United States and Indonesia.
More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook daily.
The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females.
Some sources say Chinas QZone is larger with over 300 million using its services (Facebooks ban in China plays into this).
Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than four weeks and cost Facebook $0.
comScore indicates that Russia has the most engaged social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month Vkontakte.ru is the number one Russian social network.
A 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction. One-in-six higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum.
Percentage of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees 80 percent.
Eighty percent of Twitter usage is on mobile devicespeople update anywhere, anytime. Company reputations are often killed before the company even knows it is bleeding.
Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama.
There are no secrets in social media ask any job applicant who didnt get hired because of those college party pictures on Facebook or Flickr.
The second largest search engine in the world is YouTube.
Wikipedia has over 13 million articlessome studies show its more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica78 percent of those articles are written in languages other than English.
If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour.
There are over 200,000,000 blogs and 54 percent of bloggers post content or tweet daily.
Twenty-five percent of search results for the Worlds Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content. Thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products & brands.
People care more about how their social networks ranks products and services than how Google ranks them.
Seventy-eight percent of consumers trust peer recommendations
Only 14 percent trust advertisements.
Only 18 percent of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive return on investment.
Ninety percent of people that can skip ads using TiVo do so.
Hulu (the online video site) has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009.
In the past month, 25 percent of Americans said they watched a short video on their phone.
According to Amazons Jeff Bezos, 35 percent of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available.
What does this have to do with Human Resources? Wake up HR professionalsand wake up your colleagues as well. We are experiencing a whole different world than even five years ago. If we dont keep up with new developments and trends and how to leverage them to get bottom line results through people and the rapidly changing behaviors they are employing were in trouble.
We believe we can helpin a different kind of way and we are excited to serve you in helping you and your organization reach higher. This isnt about us its about you and your future.
