Corporate Blogging at its Best
Posted in Around the Web, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Social Media News on Jan 31st, 2012
A little while back, we spoke about how businesses are turning to new technologies to promote their businesses and personal branding through electronic business cards and the like. There are already dozens of job seeker websites where companies can advertise and applicants can easily respond to job ads onlines. Job seekers can upload their resumes [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Social Media, Social Media News on Jan 13th, 2012
This map depicts the physical movement of and movements of tweets. Created by Social Media cartographer Eric Fischer, this tracks the physical movement (in green) and @ replies from someone in one location to someone in another (in purple) and a combination of the two (in white). Fischer has also created maps on the use [...]
Posted in Facebook, Social Media News on Dec 7th, 2011
Today, Facebook has released its data showing the top ten status trends for the year globally and by key countries. When millions of people post on their Facebook account to share what’s cool, what’s important and what’s of the moment, this data is tracked. The information shared then spreads around the world like wildfire. The [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Social Media, Social Media News on Nov 25th, 2011
Customers are increasing going online to find the best deals. According to the National Retail Federation, last year a total of $45 billion dollars were spent on the United State’s biggest shopping day of the year. Social media is not playing a bigger role that ever before with the marketing of this year’s Black Friday, [...]
Posted in Social Media, Social Media News on Oct 13th, 2011
According to research by Deloitte Access Economics, the firm which sets the benchmark for economic analysis and insight in Australia, has reported that the Internet industry in Australia makes up $50 billion of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Obviously, this is a huge amount and equates to roughly the same size as the Australian retail [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Social Media News on Oct 6th, 2011
Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman of the board, former CEO of Apple and industry icon for decades, has died yesterday. Apple released this statement: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The [...]
Posted in Social Media, Social Media News on Sep 29th, 2011
Just a few days ago, American job search site CareerBless has listed their top 10 social media jobs in the US complete with the number of openings and the average salary. While the words “social media” tends to give the perception that it is all fun and games, Matt Miller, the CTO and co-founder of [...]
Posted in Social Media, Social Media News on Sep 22nd, 2011
When looking for work, keep in mind that whatever you have on the internet can be seen by headhunters and human resource professionals. You know you should keep certain information private and know that your rowdy Facebook photos could veto you as potential candidate. A recent study shows that almost 90% of companies will use social media [...]
Posted in Social Media, Social Media News on Jul 21st, 2011
A study done by discount deal site, MyVoucherCodes, has reported most grandparents and older adults are now on social media. The study had collected results from 1,341 grandparents from the UK and showed that 71% of grandparents use social media sites such as Facebook. 34% reported using Twitter and 9% use the LinkedIn. 51% reported [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Social Media News on Jul 14th, 2011
It’s been said and said again: be careful of what you post on the internet! According to Social Media Today, in a ruling by the Federal Trade Commission, entitles such as the Social Intelligence Corporation can keep an archive of your social media activities for up to seven years! This means that any information, no [...]