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6 Things I Learned From The Internet

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Timeless wisdom trumps real-time information

Things change constantly, so stepping back and looking at the whole picture and finding the deeper meaning is more important than what is on the surface. True wisdom is timeless and can help you regardless of the circumstance. You can learn, and should learn, about [...]

March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: connectinos, consume, Facebook, linkedin, media, participate, real-time, trust, wisdom | Category: Facebook, Real time search, Social media, Uncategorized | One comment

Xbox’s upcoming social integration

During this summer’s E3, the world’s most important annual gathering for everything that is interactive entertainment, it was mentioned that Microsoft’s Xbox Live would soon integrate with Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. This would be an important expansion for Microsoft, as they can broaden the entertainment depth of the Xbox as well as create an even [...]

October 10th, 2009 | Tags: Facebook, last.fm, Microsoft, Twitter, xbox, xbox live | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Search and rescue

Bing’s usage during the month of September dropped off 5% even with the ‘decision engine’s’ advertising success and some gradual growth during the summer. Bing’s market share, the obvious statistic of choice, declined from 9.48% to 8.96%. The leader, Google, increased their share from 70.24% to 71.08% in America. Yahoo Search experienced a 3% decline, [...]

October 9th, 2009 | Tags: bing, Facebook, facts and figures, Google, Real time search, search engine, Twitter, Yahoo | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Savviest socialites

New data on Facebook’s American growth, by age and gender, reveals some information that might challenge your stereotypes of the average user. Facebook provides these statistics to advertisers, though not in real time, in order to provide a sense of how Facebook is growing with hopes that advertisers can capitalize on shifts occurring in the [...]

October 8th, 2009 | Tags: demographics, Facebook, Social media statistics | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Social media success

Businesses crave information that is forthright and results oriented, but the metrics used in social media tend to use language that is not directly correlated to return on investment. These broad measurements include virality, sentiment, volume, influence, engagement and conversational reach. While this information is not easily discernable on the bottom line, there undoubtedly is [...]

October 8th, 2009 | Tags: Blogging, dell, Facebook, hp, Social media, starbucks, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Beacon of nope

Privacy advocates rejoiced on Tuesday when Facebook’s user-data-sharing ad system, Beacon, was finally closed. Beacon was used to track user activity on third party sites and then share the information with that user’s Facebook friends. Basically, if you purchased something from a site that used beacon, it would then show up on your newsfeed on [...]

September 25th, 2009 | Tags: Crisis management, Facebook, Privacy | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Friends and fans alike

Ever wanted to be friends, or just follow your favorite brand? Then check out this intensive list of 25 top companies and their social media profiles. Now you can not only be friends with your mom on Facebook, but a whole slew of buinesses. This does show that businesses were right in making these social [...]

September 21st, 2009 | Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social media statistics, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Concerning terms

The only way I could pry myself away from the random statistic button on the new Google UK Internet Statistics is if they made a North American equivalent. This immense collection of data comes from research firms such as Comscore, Nielson, Forrester and Hitwise and publications like BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial [...]

September 14th, 2009 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Privacy, Social media statistics, ToS, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Trend topper

Crowdsourced flavor? Vitamin water opens the doors to their flavor creator lab where one fan generated flavor will see its way to store shelves next year and earn the creator $5,000. Vitamin Water is already well established in the social media realm for a high-profile campaign that pitted Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James and they [...]

September 9th, 2009 | Tags: Apple, Crowdsourcing, DS, Facebook, iPhone, Nintendo, PSP, Sony, Twitter trends, Vitamin Water | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Novelty, not convention

I’m not ashamed to admit that I yell at my television. Although it is an exercise in futility, it’s somehow cathartic. Luckily, now I have an audience to share my admiration or disdain for characters, story lines and acting live on Fox during reruns of Fringe and Glee using Twitter. The commentary will be displayed [...]