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Social Media

Facebook Milestone: 500M Users

20 July 2010 Facebook

UpDate: Thursday 22st July 2010. The world’s largest social networking site announced Wednesday that it has hit a widely anticipated milestone, signing up its 500 millionth user. In a blog post, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he “could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started [...]

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Using Facebook Cost Per Click Campaigns to Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Site

7 July 2010 Advice

One of the most appealing factors about the Facebook Cost Per Click advertising is the depth of targeting you can achieve for all of your adverts. Facebook currently allows you to select and define your audience much more specifically, which for an advertiser can only be a good thing. The more of the “unrelated” audience [...]

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Free WiFi Melbourne City Council Delivers Internet To Their Public

6 July 2010 Attraction

At last and finally Melbourne City Council has agreed to supply free WiFi for the public domain, as long as your in the domain of where these two internet hotspots will be setup like the town square and shopping and dining districts. The exact details are still being thrashed out, but at least having free [...]

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Debunking 3 Major Branding Myths

1 July 2010 Advice

You have a business and you’re worried about your Brand not being seen or even heard about and you’re getting frustrated .. there’s no need to be .. it’s just a Myth that getting your Brand seen or heard of is Hard Yakka. Read my post and see if it makes sense to you .. [...]

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Best Social Media Channel: Pipe dream or a feasible task?

26 March 2010 Attraction

To answer the above question, one needs to understand a few basic ideas. There are only two ways of getting Web traffic – either you let your visitors find you which is rather a passive method, or you actively search for places where your targeted visitors may hang around and personally engage them into communication. [...]

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How To Measure Online Brand Popularity

12 March 2010 Advice

Online Brand Popularity .. How to measure it! The deeper information technologies penetrate our lives, the more powerfully you and your customers can use them for decision making. All we need to make the best available choice is reliable information – from eyewitnesses, first-hand users, reviewers, and experts. Search engines and news feeds give you [...]

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Facebook & Twitter up 82% Year over Year

23 February 2010 Analysis

Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just [...]

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Save Our Marine Life . . . how long can you last? Game On!

5 February 2010 Attraction

My brilliant sister in-law sent an email with this little game in it and … OMG MY SANDY ONLY LASTED 30 SECONDS!! Steer Sandy Seal through the dangers of unprotected waters and sign the petition to Save Our Marine Life. // // This movie has been designed to use Adobe Flash technology. Download it here: [...]

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Twitter’s Most Influential Topics of 2009

2 January 2010 Analysis

Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook. In 2009, influence emerged as a source of filtering and focus, especially when Twitter () released its new “lists” feature to empower users to organize and follow custom streams by topic, personality, and themes. Klout, which [...]

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Survey: Social media makes good business, bad workers

1 January 2010 Analysis

By: Andrea Koskey Examiner Staff Writer December 31, 2009 Companies and government agencies are using social networking sites such as Facebook to make announcements and keep in touch with the community. (Courtesy photo) Businesses are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for marketing purposes, but those same companies don’t want employees [...]

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