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Ideas Connect Us More than Relationships

December 28, 2009 – 6:22 am

Earlier in the year, I was invited to share my thoughts and observations on the state of and vision for socialized media and the networks that connect us. Shot in a mobile studio outside of the Austin Convention Center during SXSW09, I joined Gary Bolles to discuss the theory that ideas are the “ties [...]

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Ning Proves That There’s Life Outside of Facebook and Twitter

December 21, 2009 – 6:25 am

Source: Shutterstock I was recently asked in a 2010 planning meeting about my views on Ning and whether or not it was worthy of consideration or attention. It seems that the question is increasingly raised as Social Media becomes pervasive within the halls of marketing, advertising, customer service, and public relations. My answer is this. If your [...]

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Socialized Media: The Powerful Effects of Online Brand Interaction

November 30, 2009 – 6:33 am

Shutterstock As we’re learning, many updates on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are actually invitations for answers regarding brands. We’ve also discovered that 44% of users readily share brand-related information with others. And, as action speaks louder than words, 48% of those who came into contact with a brand name on Twitter and 34% on [...]

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On Twitter and Social Networks, Brands Benefit from Conversations

November 19, 2009 – 6:40 am

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A recent study revealed 20 percent of tweets published are actually invitations for product information, answers or responses from peers or directly by brand representatives. Now we learn that Twitter users are actively paying attention to brands on the popular information network.
According to research conducted by Performics and ROI Research, about half of Twitter [...]

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The Rapid Evolution of Search

November 10, 2009 – 6:57 am

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Over the past several weeks, leaders in the search industry launched an aggressive, very public series of campaigns designed to capture the elusive future of search mind and market share.
The accelerated evolution of “real-time” search, introduced to us mostly through the adoption of Summize, which was eventually acquired to now serve as Twitter search, inspired both Google and Bing [...]

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We’re Spending More Time with Social Media: Advertisers Follow

October 16, 2009 – 5:32 am

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The attention dashboard is rapidly emerging as the online hub for sharing and discovering information, connecting us to people, content, and events in real-time. According to research, we’re already spending more time in social networks than we are in email. New studies are only fortifying these findings, documenting an increase time spent specifically in [...]

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The Dichotomy Between Social Networks and Education

September 8, 2009 – 6:03 am

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Recently, I discussed the validity of whether or not social networking (the verb) and social networks (as a noun) were impairing our ability to learn. A Stanford study suggested that this might be the case.
It seems that the initial research and its supporting data is now emerging to help us further analyze whether [...]

By brian | Posted in Industry Blogs, Research | Also tagged attention, Business - Marketing, economy, Facebook, network, New Media University, Psychology, rubicon, social, social media, sociology, twitter | Comments Off

Breathing New Life into Virtual Worlds

August 10, 2009 – 5:11 am

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And you thought Virtual Worlds were so passé…a new study suggests that virtual worlds may be getting a second life.
In 2007-2008, many brands and companies flocked to Second Life to build a virtual presence, which spiked, peaked, and created somewhat of a backlash and ultimately a bit of a retreat in the process. By mid-2009, [...]

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Everything You Never Knew About Facebook

August 1, 2009 – 4:26 pm

Shot at SXSWWhile I’m currently in the midst of writing my next book, I stumbled across some very interesting and useful statistics that offer a glimpse into Facebook behavior and activity as well as the state of the Facebook platform. I believe that they reinforce many of our hunches and assumptions and also introduce facts [...]

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Facebook Slowly Taking Over the World, Now at 250 Million Users

July 20, 2009 – 7:34 am

Mark Zuckerberg proudly announced on the Facebook blog this week that the popular social network continues its global dominance jumping from 200 million to 250 million users. To commemorate the milestone, Facebook created a map that visualizes connections and adoption worldwide.
Zuckerberg credited you and me and the social graphs we weave with its phenomenal growth, [...]

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