Archive of the Category 'Social Media'

Happy Birthday Facebook!

Thursday, den 4. February 2010

How time flies.  I can’t believe Facebook has now reached the ripe old age of 6 years old today, as according to its info page it was launched on this day in 2004.  And it’s certainly not bad for a scheme hatched by a 20-year-old in his college dorm room!
Facebook  was originally called ‘Thefacebook’  located [...]

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Some Big Brands missing a trick or two in search

Wednesday, den 13. January 2010

- McDonalds obviously has a reputation management programme to cover off negative results for brand searches on the major engines. Type in McDonalds into Google and a whole series of McDonalds related micro-sites come up ensuring that negative stories/blogs/sites are pushed off the 1st page – pretty smart. However, [...]

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Google Announce deal with Twitter and ‘Search Social’

Thursday, den 22. October 2009

It was all happening yesterday at the web 2.0 summit in San Francisco.  After Bing announced that it had reached a deal with twitter to integrate real time tweets into Bing, Marissa Mayer (Google VP of Search Products and User Experience) announced that they too had done the same thing.  See an extract from [...]

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Tug Whitepaper: SMO & SEO

Monday, den 21. September 2009

Tug have released a new whitepaper about Social Media Optimisation and Search Engine Optimisation, in this whitepaper we talk about how you can use Social Media to assist your SEO Campaign. See below for a small quote from the whitepaper:
“The majority of social media websites will allow you to post links to a website, be [...]

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Social Media Video

Monday, den 24. August 2009

Great video showcasing Social Media, Courtesy of John Battelle.

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Social Media Spend to Top 1.9bn in 2014

Friday, den 10. July 2009

Revolution Magazine report that Social Media Spend is set to explode to £1.9bn in 2014, below is a quote from the article:
“Forrester Research has thrown some figures behind what everybody already knows, that social media marketing budgets are set to explode over the next five years, predicting average spend to grow at an annual rate [...]

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Businesses Failing To Monitor Brand Online

Wednesday, den 8. July 2009

Just 37% of businesses have someone who actively manages their online reputation, despite the majority of companies recognising a strong need for a social media strategy.
The findings, from research by digital communications company Quba, reveal 68% of senior marketers and online professionals think their company should have a blog, while 66% say they should have [...]

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Coca-Cola Admits to Failing to Keep Up With Social Media

Tuesday, den 23. June 2009

NMA report that Coca Colas VP of global advertising strategy, Jonathan Mildenhall, has admitted to not keeping up with the Social Media but plans to increase its social media exposure. See below for a quote:
“Speaking at the international advertising festival Cannes Lions 2009, Mildenhall admitted the multi-national corporation had been slow to embrace UGC and [...]

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StumbleUpon Buys Itself Back of Ebay

Tuesday, den 14. April 2009

Marketing Pilgrim report that StumbleUpon have bought themselves back from Ebay. Here’s a small quote from the blog:
“In May 2007, eBay purchased StumbleUpon at $75 million, to much confusion in the blogosphere. At the time, eBay was taking a “wait and see” approach before integrating any of its holdings with the sharing and discovery toolbar. [...]

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123people.com – 100% Universal search

Tuesday, den 9. December 2008

Still wondering how Universal search is going to look like?  123people results can be a very good approximation for this.  Basically, this new search engine is aimed to help people find other people or about other people; however the site adds value with a wide variety of result formats:  Images, Videos, Blogs, Biographies, and even [...]

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