I was reading an interesting article in Search Marketing Standard last night about the use of Social Media by the Inc 500 companies. Take a look at this chart of the fastest growing companies compiled by The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research. It’s very clear that social media has been accepted More…
Pownce, a popular microblogging platform, is shutting down on December 15th because the company has been aquired by Six Apart, the creators of Moveable Type. Pownce was one of the fastest growing social media sites and will be missed by all. Here’s a link to the details of the acquistition. http://blog.pownce.com/2008/12/01/goodbye-pownce-hello-six-apart/
More...Black Friday is over and today is Cyber Monday. Despite dismal projections, sales on Black Friday were 3% higher than last year and weekend spending was up overall as shoppers snapped up deeply discounted merchandise. For those that haven’t been keeping up, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving where up to 10% of all More…
Even if you’re not from the U.S., we should all take a moment to give thanks today. The world is experiencing an unprecedented financial crisis, terrorist attacks, multiple wars, famine, disease, global warming (I know the Republicans will deny this) and poverty. We’re all affected by world events now that we’re living in a global More…
It’s true. Social Media is just an excuse for us to justify our aimlessly surfing the internet for hours and hours. I’m convinced its a conspiracy by those who want us to waste as much time as we can so we can go days without accomplishing anything. I keep hearing from Social Media experts that More…
I just read a great article in Reuters about the benefit of allowing your employees to access social media sites during work. Click here to take a look at the article here. Michael Holden makes some compelling points in the article saying its getting hard to separate social networking with traditional networking. Battening down the More…
Yesterday we made history in the US by electing Barack Obama as our 44th President. Obama overcame numerous obstacles to win the election. Besides being the first African American to win the presidency, he had to beat Hillary Clinton in a heated primary election. Never before were we given the choice to choose either a More…
Twitter is literally on fire tonight with election buzz. Take a look at this continuous stream of tweets.
More...I ran into a ton of traffic near our polling place today. I’ve never seen so many people voting in our neighborhood. Usually you see a couple of other people voting and there’s never a line. Today there was a long line at 7:30 and a line of cars waiting to get into the parking More…
This week I attended the Social Media Strategies Conference in San Francisco and I was amazed by the strategies being used by big business. They’ve jumped into social media with both feet and are exploring every possible avenue to build relationships with their customers. I’ll go into more depth about each company’s strategy in future More…