{"id":3178,"date":"2013-01-18T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T14:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.redclayinteractive.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2015-07-20T21:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T21:27:05","slug":"social-media-2012-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redclayinteractive.com\/social-media-2012-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media 2012 Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2012 was an exciting year for our industry. \u00a0In addition to fun new gadgets and online services, technology and social media are shaping the world we live in. \u00a0We had a US Presidential campaign conducted heavily through, and possibly determined by, social media (dubbed the <a title=\"2012: The First Digital Election\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ciocentral\/2012\/11\/05\/2012-the-first-digital-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Twitter Election&#8221;<\/a>). \u00a0The notorious group of hackers, Anonymous, left behind their prankster origins and <a title=\"The Evolution of Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/03\/26\/evolution-of-anonymous\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">grew into a political action group<\/a>,\u00a0helping to defeat the internet censorship bill SOPA and most recently taking on the universally-despised Westboro Baptist Church among many other things. \u00a0A YouTube video raising awareness to a <a title=\"Invisible Children\" href=\"http:\/\/invisiblechildren.com\/kony\/\" target=\"_blank\">human rights issue in Uganda<\/a>\u00a0not only led to action by world leaders but completely changed the way we look at social awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to capture everything that happened but here is a great infographic from <a title=\"The SEO Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seoco.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The SEO Company<\/a>\u00a0summing up the state of Social Media in 2012:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seoco.co.uk\/social-media\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redclayinteractive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stateofsocial2012.png\" alt=\"stateofsocial2012\" width=\"970\" height=\"4450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redclayinteractive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stateofsocial2012.png 970w, https:\/\/redclayinteractive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stateofsocial2012-223x1024.png 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If one thing in our industry is certain, it is change. \u00a0The way we use technology to communicate is evolving at an ever increasing pace and 2013 surely has even more fun in store \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 was an exciting year for our industry. \u00a0In addition to fun new gadgets and online services, technology and social media are shaping the world we live in. \u00a0We had a US Presidential campaign conducted heavily through, and possibly determined by, social media (dubbed the &#8220;Twitter Election&#8221;). \u00a0The notorious group of hackers, Anonymous, left behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[60,70,76,128,163,164,179,183,190],"coauthors":[236],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Social Media 2012 Wrap Up - Web Design &amp; 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