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New Report: Social Media Gone Wild!
A new report by NetPop Research gives us some data to back up what most of us have been experiencing anecdotally the past few years: Online communication, especially within social media networks has simply exploded. The report says that overall communication online has increased 18 percent since...
Tags: Social Media, Widgets, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-03-09
Do It Yourself Social Media Marketing: A Stepforth Whitepaper
Social media marketing is a method of promoting your brand (be it yourself, a product, a service, or company) by strategically making your presence known across various social media networks (such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Myspace, etc.) This may seem overly elementary but "Making yourself known" is the kicker because...
Tags: Social Media, StepForth Web Marketing, Social Media Marketing
White papers 2007-06-27
10 Reasons Social Media isn't Replacing Email
The Wall Street Journal just ran a piece about the evolution of communication technology, chronicling the rise and alleged fall of email to social media. "Email no longer rules," the title reads.Do you agree that email no longer rules? Tell us why or why not."We all still use email, of course,"...
Tags: e-mail
News items 2009-10-13
Mashable's Weekly Internet and Social Media Events Guide
It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Is your event not on this list? Contact us and let's establish a media partnership. Mashable's Weekly Social...
Tags: Social Media
News items 2009-08-24
In Depth: 10 ways to use social media to get a new job
Traditionally it was employers who had to make themselves visible when looking to fill vacancies – posting adverts in the press, then choosing a pool of candidates from a veritable tsunami of applicants. But not any more. There's mounting evidence that personnel specialists are now scouring social...
Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Network, Site, LinkedIn, Twitter Inc.
News items 2009-10-18
Mashable's Weekly Guide to Social Media Conferences and Events
It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
Tags: Social Media
News items 2009-10-19
5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives
Soren Gordhamer writes and consults on ways we can more creatively and effectively use the technologies of our age, including social media. He is the author of "Wisdom 2.0? (HarperOne, 2009). You can follow him on Twitter at @SorenG . It is hard to...
Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Twitter Inc.
News items 2009-10-16
Security Issues Holding Back Social Media's Potential
Social Media's rise in popularity has created some very real problems for the Internet and its users. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter have seemingly opened the floodgates to security troubles, and over the past few weeks, this has been accentuated by a number of issues and studies.As WebProNews recently...
Tags: Facebook, Social Media, social networking, Twitter Inc.
News items 2009-09-03
Mashable's Social Media Guide for Small Businesses
Over the past year, Mashable has written extensively on the value of social media to small businesses. We have also contributed regularly on this topic to the American Express Open Forum . From the fundamentals of Twitter branding, to the importance of blogging, to getting work...
Tags: Social Media
News items 2009-12-04
10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010
This time last year, I wrote about the 10 ways social media will change 2009 , and while all predictions have materialized or are on their way, it has only become clear in recent months how significant of a change we've seen this year. 2009 will go...
Tags: Social Media
News items 2009-12-11
Lacking Citibank Survey Misses The Mark About Small Business Use of Social Media
We promise to refrain from any cynicism about the survey results we receive. That said the surveys are sometimes misleading, looking for a public relations hit. Hope that isn't too cynical but the results of a Citibank survey about small business use of social media makes us...
Tags: Citigroup Inc., Social Media, Small Business, Survey
News items 2009-10-09
Social Media Will Not Replace Search
Nielsen has shared some interesting findings from its research on how Internet users discover content. The research mainly focused on how content is found through search, portals, and through social media."In a nutshell, there is a segment of the online population that uses social media as a core navigation and...
Tags: information, Social Media, social networking, Search Engine
News items 2009-10-06
Mashable's Weekly Guide to Events in Social Media
It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
Tags: Social Media, Event
News items 2009-10-26
Mashable's Weekly Conference Guide to Everything Social Media
It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
Tags: Social Media, Event
News items 2009-11-02
Mashable's Guide to Jobs in Social Media & Marketing
If you're seeking a job in social media, we'd like to help out. For starters, Mashable's Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on...
Tags: Social Media, Computer Associates International Inc., Opportunity
News items 2009-10-22
WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner
Late Friday afternoon, Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Senior Editor Milton Coleman sent a memo to the staff with a social media policy—effectively immediately—aimed at staffers’ use of “individual accounts on online social networks, when used for reporting and for personal use.” The new policy was translated externally by WaPo...
Tags: Journalist, Network, Social Media, Washington Post Co., WaPo, paidContent, Steve Buttry, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Washington Post, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-27
Social Media is Slowly Changing the Demographics of Political Engagement
Traditionally, political participation has always been highly correlated with income and education. According to a new report PDF , this is still holds true for those who participate in political activities online. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project , online users with...
Tags: activity, social networking
News items 2009-09-01
Socialcast Analytics Suite Helps Filter Out Social Media Buzz
Socialcast tomorrow will announce Social Business Intelligence, a suite of analytics software for its microblogging platform. SBI runs network analysis to ferret out informal connections between individuals and groups, looking at posts, comments and "liking" activity over time. With SBI, Socialcast joins companies such as Jive Software in blending business...
Tags: company, business intelligence, Analytics, Analytics Software, Business Intelligence Tool
News items 2009-10-06
How SHOULD Employees Use Social Media?
A recent study found that 54% of businesses prohibit employee social media use completely. There are valid arguments supporting both sides of this debate. We've seen quite a few news stories in recent months about social media policies coming to light. We've seen the topic discussed with regards to the...
Tags: Employee, Goal
News items 2009-10-21
Four (ok twelve) Reasons to Build a Social Media Strategy for 2010
by Jennifer Laycock As a small business social media strategist, I'm very happy to see so many companies finally beginning to recognize the need to invest some of the marketing dollars into social media. I'm ever more happy to see how many of them are willing and...
Tags: Social Media
News items 2009-12-14
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