Posts Tagged ‘social networks’
Eight ways Twitter will change your life
Thursday, October 30, 2008 15:19 No CommentsIt seems that everyone is atwitter about Twitter. Yes, other microblog services with insufferably cute names, such as Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk, are around. But Twitter has quickly become the de facto choice for creating really, really short blogs.
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Retailers Get Social With New Facebook
Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:08 No CommentsFacebook is the social media site of choice for many US online retailers, judging by an August 2008 study by Internet Retailer and Vovici.
Nearly one-third of responding businesses said they had a Facebook page, compared with 27% that had a MySpace page and just over one-quarter that had a page on YouTube.
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Consumers, Companies and Social Networks
Friday, October 10, 2008 13:52 No CommentsListen to this article
Befriended and poked by companies
Nearly six out of 10 Americans who use social media interact with companies on social media Websites, according to a September 2008 study by conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for Cone.
The researchers found 85% of social media users thought companies should interact with their consumers through social media, [...]
Broader Reach for Social Marketing Sites
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 15:04 No CommentsListen to this article
As the Web becomes a more social place, media companies are trying to make it easier to share links with friends, add comments to articles and extend users’ online identities.
This week, CNN will begin connecting “The Forum,” a site for political expression, to Facebook, the country’s second-largest social network, enabling users to [...]
Social Networks Are Not Yet Universal
Monday, September 8, 2008 9:56 No CommentsListen to this article
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More than one-half of adults surveyed in 17 countries do not know what social networking is, according to Synovate. The company said it asked over 13,000 consumers in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the [...]
The New Standard In A Social Media World
Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:54 No CommentsInconvenient to read? On a smartphone? Listen to an audio version of this article:
http://www.talkr.com/audio/m/a/r/k/342191.mp3
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What started out in 2003 as simple community-based Web sites and tools for sharing information with friends, social media has grown into a phenomenon of epic proportions with the monumental success of sites such as YouTube, Bebo, Flickr, Digg and a myriad [...]