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BWELA 2011: 7 Key Takeaways from BlogWorld Expo 2011

By Amy Yen, Marketing Specialist, Business Wire Los Angeles BlogWorld Expo is a daunting place to be. There are more than 150 sessions featuring more than 250 speakers over three days, not to mention the fact that the whole place is basically teeming with really smart people with really interesting ideas about absolutely everything. So, [...]

The State of Social Media 2011: Social is the new normal

Part 6 in a series introducing my new book, The End of Business as Usual…this is not content from the book, this series serves as its prequel. The state of social media is no insignificant affair. Nor is it a conversation relegated to a niche contingent of experts and gurus. Social media is pervasive and [...]

Revolution Season 2: Technorati’s Richard Jalichandra on the State and Future of Social Media

Technorati dates back to 2002, originally launched as a search directory for the blogosphere. By 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. In 2011, Technorati Media has become a full-fledged new media network. Every year, the company releases a State of the Blogosphere report that consistently [...]

Deutsche EuroShop integrates social media into investor relations website

DEUTSCHE EuroShop AG (DES), a Germany-based mid-cap company that invests in shopping malls across Europe, recently redesigned their corporate website to place a strong emphasis on social media as a way to improve communication with investors and other stakeholders. The site is an interesting case study for companies that have already begun to incorporate social [...]

Twitter most popular with FTSE 100 companies

TWITTER is the most popular social media service among FTSE 100 companies while Facebook and corporate blogs are least popular, a survey by UK-based corporate web development firm The Group has found. The firm says that 45% of the large-cap companies in the UK’s blue-chip index now have Twitter accounts, a rise of almost 50% [...]

Communicating executive pay information on the web

NOW that US shareholders have a formal way to express their opinions on companies’ executive compensation practices, forward-thinking governance and investor relations professionals might want to think about using the web to tell their companies’ compensation stories. While most directors, governance professionals and IROs will probably be focusing their attention on trying to spruce up [...]

Google CEO shows how to step down, social media style

WHEN Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt announced that he was stepping aside from the top management job at the company, he did so in a way that provides a blueprint for the use of social media in official public company disclosures. Instead of the traditional approach of announcing the move in a news [...]

FT Tilt targets investor appetite for emerging markets

THE Financial Times has launched a paid news and analysis website called FT Tilt that aims to cash in on the growing investor interest in emerging markets by bringing them unique information from reporters on the ground. Investors in developed markets have been pouring increasing amounts into emerging markets in recent years. However, one of [...]

Best of 2010: Getting to Know Your Friends, Fans and Followers

In 2010, we were introduced to the important distinctions between monitoring and listening. At the same time, we observed an emerging dichotomy between the social graph (your personal and professional connections) and the interest graph (those who share common interests, goals, and concerns). For business strategists, publishers, and marketers, windows into the world of customers [...]

At Bango, an IR website budget of $4.75 per month

BANGO plc, a micro-cap software firm with offices in the UK and the US, is saving thousands per year by hosting its investor relations website entirely on the popular WordPress.com blogging network. While it’s quite common for small companies to run their corporate sites using the WordPress blogging software on their own servers, Bango is [...]