Facebook and other social media cost UK billions
Posted by admin on August 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Employees who fritter time away on Facebook, Twitter and other social media Web sites are costing British businesses billions, new research suggests.
Filed under Business · Tagged with Impact, Social Media
Pirates of Silicon Valley: State of exception and dispossession in Web 2.0
Posted by admin on July 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
by Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt – This article investigates a paradox in the reception of Web 2.0. While some of its services are seen as creators of a new informational economy and are hence publicly legitimized, other features are increasingly under surveillance and policed, although in reality the differences between these services is far [...]
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HOW TO: Integrate Paid Search and Social Media for Better Marketing Results
Posted by admin on April 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
by Matt Lawson Paid search and social media are both extremely important marketing channels. But how can brands combine the two distinctly different tactics –- the bid-based, conversion-obsessed, ROI-driven world of paid search and the experimental, brand-building, hard-to-measure world of social –- to drive an overall increase in ROI? Marketers large and small are grappling [...]
Filed under Applications, Promotion · Tagged with Marketing, Search, Social Media
Candidates flock to social media to connect, influence
Posted by admin on January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Russell Lissau If John Kennedy was the first presidential candidate made for television, Barack Obama might have been the first made for the Internet. With his campaign’s heavy reliance on e-mail, Twitter, MySpace and other Web-based tools, Obama used the Internet to attract volunteers, connect supporters and raise money like no one before him. [...]
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How the turmoil in Iran is playing out on social media Web sites
Posted by admin on January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
How the turmoil in Iran is playing out on social media Web sites (CNN) — Nearly a week after the bloody weekend crackdown on Iranian protesters, the issue is still generating thousands of posts on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. CNN’s Iran desk is analyzing dozens of Internet videos of the violent demonstrations on Dec. 23-24 [...]
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