Social Media

Social media according to Deloitte

June 28, 2010

Social media takes place in a hive, where everyone participates equally in the conversation. Sometimes you talk; sometimes you listen. Sometimes you lead; sometimes you follow. To discover how one company engages in social media, read Deloitte’s captivating report: Social Media at Deloitte: Participation, communication, transformation. Connecting through emails, blogs, wikis, web, video and photo [...]

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Tweets are the new quotes

May 4, 2010

Twitter has become an essential news source for bloggers, reporters and other news gatherers, but not for me. I’m too lazy to quote stuff I see there. First you have to take a screen capture, and then cut/paste it into your copy. It’s too much work. I rationalize not doing it by telling myself that [...]

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IBM’s Blog Muse promises to help bloggers overcome writer’s block

April 25, 2010

Researchers at IBM’s Center for Social Software in Cambridge, Mass. say they’ve found a cure for blogger’s block. Actually, what they’ve come up with is an idea generator for bloggers that draws on the wisdom of the hive for inspiration and feedback. Nicknamed “Blog Muse,” the idea generator solicits story ideas from a pool of [...]

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How to find out what’s being said about you on Twitter

April 15, 2010

More than a dozen tools will enable you find out what people on Twitter are saying about you (or more likely, your company) and I’ll run down a list of them in a few minutes. But first this: Google will roll out in the next few days a new “replay” feature that enables you to [...]

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The CMO’s Guide to The Social Landscape

April 11, 2010

Chief marketing officers at some of the country’s largest companies say they’ll invest more in social media this year, even though they’re unsure what the ROI will be, according to a joint survey from The CMO Club,  an association of top chief marketing officers, and Bazaarvoice, a company that markets Software as a Service  social commerce solutions. [...]

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Yahoo! extends Facebook integration under ‘Project Mount Rushmore’ initiative

December 2, 2009

Yahoo! says it will get more cozy with Facebook by integrating the two in a way that helps users better stay in touch and grab more meaningful content when they want it. The big idea is to further the Yahoo! Open Strategy initiative and to “make the two experiences more open, social and personally relevant [...]

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg follows up on privacy controls announced in July

December 2, 2009

Facebook’s head honcho, Mark Zuckerberg, said back in July the company was preparing to do a better job of locking down the privacy of its users. Facebook now has 350 million users worldwide, Zuckerberg says. In an open letter, published last night, Zuckerberg finally got around to detailing just what those privacy controls will look [...]

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Tweet and be seen

December 1, 2009

I think augmented reality for smartphones like the iPhone 3GS is very, very cool. Now, comes Twitter 360, a new app that enables you to visualize your Twitter friends who are located near you using AR (it works in combination with the iPhone’s camera). It’s one of the first apps to use Twitter’s new geotagging [...]

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Pizza Hut tops list of brand apps with 1 million downloads, says Forbes Magazine

November 30, 2009

Forbes Magazine named the Pizza Hut iPhone app the #1 Branded Mobile Application of 2009 in an article released this week. In 2009, the Pizza Hut iPhone app also was named the winner of two MMA awards for Best Mobile Display Campaign and Best Emerging Technology Campaign in North America, as well as an OMMA [...]

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The social equality of men and women

November 30, 2009

Ever wondered how many of Twitter’s users are women? Or men? What about Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, and other sites in the social media sphere? Market researchers at Royal Pingdom tracked down this information for 19 leading social network and news sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Reddit and Slashdot. Here’s RP’s breakdown of [...]

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