October 8, 2009

Talking Points

Tired of giving the same old presentations? Use these nuggets of information to spruce them up.

Reported by PLANADVISER Staff

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde
90% frustrated: According to a Charles Schwab survey, 90% of the respondents said they were frustrated about the money they lost in the past year and more than three-quarters said they were only somewhat confident in the guidance they receive from professionals. One quarter (25%) of U.S. investors are considering changing financial services firms/brokers in the next year based on their overall frustrations with their current situation.
TN&MO: Tennessee and Missouri are the states in the United States of America that border the most other states—each has eight states bordering it (including each other).
Eastman Kodak Kodachrome Color Film 1935-2009: Eastman Kodak Company says that it will retire Kodachrome color film this year, “concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon,” the company said. In the end, Kodachrome accounted for less than 1% of the company’s total sales of still-picture films and only one lab that processes the film was left in the country.
Online social networking site Twitter is all the hype in the media; however, a small number of Twitter users are doing all the tweeting, according to a study by the Harvard Business School. The study found that 80% of Twitter users are followed by or follow at least one user. Yet, there is a small contingent of users who are active. In fact, the top 10% of prolific Twitter users account for 90% of all tweeting, according to the research published on the Harvard Business Publishing Web site. More than half of Twitter users tweet less than once every 74 days, and the median number of lifetime tweets per user is one. The study examined the activity of a random sample of 300,542 Twitter users in May to find out how people are using the service, and then compared the findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. [Read more here.]
336: There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.