Posts under ‘2. New Media Trends’

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This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. He was previously a venture capital analyst and currently serves as an advisor to several New York startups. Robert blogs at [...]

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In 2007-2008, many brands and companies flocked to Second Life to build a virtual presence, which spiked and created a bit of a backlash and ultimately a bit of a retreat in the process. By mid-2009, virtual worlds were realizing a comeback of sorts. In July 2009, virtual worlds consultancy kzero.co.uk reported that [...]

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July 28th, 2009 | by Ben Parr
Twitter now has a brand spankin’ new homepage. Of course, if you’re a regular TwitterTwitter user, you’re rarely going to see it because you’re already logged in. But for the 5 billion+ people Twitter has yet to convert, it provides the company’s big chance to get them [...]

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July 27th, 2009 | by Sharlyn Lauby
Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com.
I admit I’m a Twitter addict. I enjoy the flurry of tweets and the variety of information my followers share with me. But even [...]

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July 23rd, 2009 | by Vadim Lavrusik
Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on Twitter () and blogs at Lavrusik.com.
In the current economy, job security has become somewhat of an oxymoron. Which is one reason why maintaining connections with your old university classmates, [...]

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July 23rd, 2009 | by Ben Parr
We know that Twitter’s rising rapidly in popularity. We also know that a huge number of Twitter users don’t stick around. So what’s a company with a user retention problem to do? Launch a guide to using its own product, of course.
Just minutes ago, Twitter [...]

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July 16, 2009 by aniisu
Planning to get your organization on the social media map? There are factors which I learnt along the way that is needed to get completely immersed. Read more about the do’s and don’ts of kick-starting your firm’s social media communication. Understand also how you [...]

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The Coming Change in Social Media Business Applications

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July 7th, 2009 | by Stan Schroeder
Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook ()’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions. Facebook’s userbase, as a whole, is getting much older very fast.
As you can see in the chart below, the overall number of users between 18 and [...]

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July 15th, 2009 | by Vadim Lavrusik
Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on TwitterTwitter and blogs at Lavrusik.com.
Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage [...]