Did you know that by 2020, IoT technology will be in 95% of new electronics?

That's just a year away, yes.

We thought that online and social channels were disruptive but how about innovations such as 3D printing, electric cars, the internet of things (IoT), virtual reality and artificial intelligence (AI)?

These new technologies are completely reinventing how we do pretty much everything in our personal and professional lives. 

And we will all require new skills to be able to do our jobs. In fact, in their research, Accenture Interactive predicts that more than half of the workforce will have to learn new skills within the next five years due to human-machine collaboration.

No wonder then that one-third of companies are planning to increase their innovation-related investments by more than 50% as worldwide spending on technology and services to enable digital transformation (DX) is going to reach nearly $2 trillion by 2022.

But what are some of those investments going to be? 

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is still a new concept for me and I admit I am a beginner. This is why when I came across the infographic below, I decided to share it because I am certain there are many people out there with limited (or zero) knowledge of SEO who might find the following information useful.

But first, what is SEO?

According to Wikipedia it is:

“...the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural," or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic"), search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. ”

“As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience.”

(Yes, it does sound confusing and complicated...)

What are the benefits of SEO?

A well implemented SEO strategy could help your website rank higher in search engine results (for example in Google) and so would make your business/services/products more visible and easier to find in the online space. This in turn could improve brand awareness, generate traffic, increase sales, improve reputation etc. by boosting the number of people who know about you.

The infographic below breaks down the key components of Search Engine Optimisation helping you gain a better understanding of the concept and giving you some ideas how to implement it.  

A world without Google? Seriously? No search, no e-mail, no maps, no translator, no reader, no docs (or as it is now Drive). What? Is that even possible?

It sure sounds absolutely impossible to me. I simply can’t imagine it. I can’t even remember how it was before Google (I am a digital native after all). Well, I admit I wasn’t so fond of Gmail in the beginning, but now I think that’s the best e-mail service and I’ve tried quite a few already. Sure, there are other similar products by various companies (e.g. Bing), but I am so used to Google and I most certainly love all their offerings, that I don’t want to give up on it and learn how to use other services. Do you?

If you don’t know, here’s a really cool Infographic that shows all the benefits Google offers. It should help you create a picture in your mind of a world without Google and whether you would like living in it.

As I am in exam phase (2 done, 2 more to go!) I admit I don’t have much time to write… But I also have another confession to make – I am addicted to my Smartphone and using it to check-in on Foursquare, tweet or read, go on Facebook and view my e-mail and, and, and…

I love being able to be online everywhere, all the time, and frankly I can’t imagine my life without this amazing opportunity that new technology has offered us.

Apparently however, it is changing our world to a massive extent – people are now dependent on their mobile devices as they are on their car, computer or TV. Therefore mobile creates enormous new opportunities for brands how to reach and interact with their target audiences.  

Don’t believe me? Then check out the video below - it shows some shocking statistics about the emerging use of mobile devices for practically everything that InMobi have found out in their research on Mobile Media Consumption. 

When was the last time you watched something on a video cassette? 5 years ago, 10 years ago or maybe 15 years ago?

I can’t even remember when... Things change so rapidly; we manage to embrace new gadgets as soon as they come alive and forget about using the old ones or even about their existence.  Take for example the past few decades when we got to know the VHS, then the CD, then the DVD, then the USB etc.

Wonder what else happened? Well, have a look at Rackspace’s fascinating infographic below – it shows some interesting facts about the evolution of our technology world and how far we’ve come.