Tag Archive | "seo"
December 22, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile,
Social Media
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There’s a great article out on Clickz.com summarizing two reports recently published on mobile social media. It’s well worth reading. Unsurprisingly, the US is behind Europe when it comes to social media on phones, and teens and University-aged students are the most active users. ABI Research reports that the audience for social media on mobiles [...]
August 7, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Advertising,
Social Media
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The Financial Times reports today that Central Office of Information (COI), the UK Government’s “center of excellence for marketing and communications,” has put a moratorium on advertising on social media sites like Facebook. COI organizes marketing campaigns to promote issues of public importance (education, health, welfare, etc.) for various UK Government departments. The organization announced [...]
August 7, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Advertising,
Social Media
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The Financial Times reports today that Central Office of Information (COI), the UK Government’s “center of excellence for marketing and communications,” has put a moratorium on advertising on social media sites like Facebook. COI organizes marketing campaigns to promote issues of public importance (education, health, welfare, etc.) for various UK Government departments. The organization announced [...]
March 2, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Advertising,
Social Media
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Italy-based social networking company, Dada S.p.A., is partnering with Google AdSense to pay users for allowing ads on their space. Dada’s new Friend$ is an opt-in revenue sharing program that rewards users for adding friends and updating the content of their Dada space. According to Dada, Friend$ is, “the only program that rewards you both [...]
March 1, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Enterprise
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Today, on Webpronews, Steven Bradley addresses some interesting questions raised in a couple of other blogs – namely: Is there an optimal post length? Will shorter posts help to retain readers and even lead to more links? What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed? Bradley’s ultimate conclusion is that the best blogs have [...]
February 27, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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I read a great review of Ning in yesterday’s TechCrunch. So, today, I thought I’d give it a whirl myself. Michael Arrington’s review was right on the money… Ning is pretty cool! It lets you create your own customized social network – complete with RSS feeds, blogs, forums, and more. Almost everything is customiseable – [...]
February 12, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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Barack Obama just launched a social media/ social networking website to further his presidential campaign in 2008: my.barackobama.com. While I haven’t made any decisions about who I will support in the 2008 presidential election, I signed up for a “test account” on My.Barackobama.com to test the social media functionality of Obama’s website. The features/functionality of [...]
February 8, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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As many fellow VOXers know, there is no way to tell how many hits your blog gets (or how many people read or talk about it)… Six Apart doesn’t provide a counting utility to bloggers. (If they did, the bloggers generating the most traffic on VOX might be tempted to leave to start revenue generating [...]
February 8, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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Here’s some great food for thought- especially the last minute of the video: Web 2.0 is linking people…People sharing, trading, and collaborating… We’ll need to re-think a few things… copyright authorship identity ethics aesthetics rhetorics governance privacy commerce love family ourselves
February 5, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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ComScore and Federated Media (FM), which represents social media sites including Digg, PROTRADE, BoingBoing, and Dooce recently announced that they would be working together on a “research and development initiative designed to provide comprehensive measurement of conversational media such as blogs and community-driven sites.” I’m looking forward to seeing the outcome of this research, especially [...]
