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Researchers Say Twitter Users Grouchier Than Most
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3/6/2013   6 comments
A Pew Research study cautions people who want to use Twitter to gauge public sentiment.
Founder Andrew Mason 'Fired' as Groupon CEO
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2/28/2013   38 comments
A bad fourth quarter was the last straw.
Rubio's Fishes for Brand Advocates
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2/19/2013   14 comments
The chain of fish taco stands has a "marketing army" of 64,000 brand advocates.
Whole Foods Looks to Keep Social Marketing Local
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2/13/2013   1 comment
Each of the company's 350 stores has its own social accounts, run locally, and only 30 percent of the marketing message is centralized.
Social Marketing Scores During Super Bowl Blackout
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2/4/2013   20 comments
Smart-thinking marketers posted tweets playing on the power outage.
With New Evernote Hello, Say Goodbye to Forgetting Faces
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2/1/2013   14 comments
Evernote makes it easier to keep track of who you meet during professional networking.
What Facebook Graph Search Means to Business
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1/25/2013   8 comments
It opens new marketing potential, new tools for finding customer information, recruitment, and security risks. And that's just off the top of our heads.
Facebook Unleashes Graph Search
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1/15/2013   41 comments
Facebook is rolling out Graph Search, a tool for deriving search results from your personal "social graph."
Hong Kong Department Stores Angle for Sales Online
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1/8/2013   22 comments
The chain used social tools from the outset in designing its online fishing store in Sweden.
New Tools for Listening to Customers: Join Our Webinar Today
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12/12/2012   Post a comment
Find out how to get the most from your customers through social media during our webinar today at 2:00 p.m. EST. Or watch the archived recording later, at your convenience.
Learn About What Works in Social Business
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12/6/2012   4 comments
Find out about the business of social business -- what works and how it's done, at our webinar.
Alms Across the Internet
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11/20/2012   15 comments
Charities use social media, online tools, and mobile apps to drum up donations and volunteers. But they could do even more.
Politicians Take Dirty Tricks to Twitter
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10/29/2012   15 comments
Spambots and Twitter bombs are among the tools of the trade for political campaigns.
Why Politics on Social Media Matters to Brands
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10/22/2012   4 comments
How the thoughts and feelings of the electorate are reflected in social media will mean a lot to marketers looking to harness sentiment analysis for their brands.
LinkedIn Redesigns Profile Pages to Make You Look Better
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10/17/2012   15 comments
"All professionals need to connect, find, and be found," says a LinkedIn product manager. The profile changes are designed to help.
7DEE Today: Big Data + Big Analytics = Big Wins
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9/20/2012   Post a comment
Tune in today at 2:00 p.m. EDT to find out how to combine market research data, internal company data, and big-data pulled from the Internet to help your business succeed.
7DEE Today: Getting Ahead of Demand – Deliciously
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9/19/2012   Post a comment
Learn how to use analytics to get ahead of demand today at 2:00 p.m. with Kraft's Frank Cotignola.
Shop.ca Brings a Canadian Twist to Social Shopping
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9/7/2012   12 comments
Rather than trying to sell or market on Facebook, Shop.ca is bringing social connections to its own site.
Master Marketing With Our New Leadership Reports
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8/28/2012   Post a comment
Our two new reports, "Measure Twice, Market Once: Using Metrics for Success" and "Navigating the Shifting Social Media Landscape," can help marketers boost their brands.
3 Great Examples of Social Media Marketing
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7/19/2012   13 comments
It's easy to talk about customer engagement through social networking. But these three companies have demonstrated how it's done.
Marketers Are Tweeting Into the Abyss
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6/28/2012   16 comments
Buddy Media's survey of Twitter engagement suggests marketers are making some fatal errors.
Of Hotels, Hostility & Online Reputation
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6/11/2012   28 comments
A presenter during the Atlantic Internet Marketing conference in Halifax last week described his experience with meeting bad publicity head on -- online and off.
#Amercia: Mitt's Epic Marketing Fail
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5/30/2012   22 comments
The Romney team's misspelling of America on an iPhone app is a major marketing blunder.
Marketers Still Not 'Jumping In' to Digital
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5/17/2012   9 comments
Deanna Brown, CEO of Federated Media, talks to Internet Evolution about the evolution of digital marketing and the importance of conversation.
YouTube Marketing: Not Quite the Super Bowl
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4/26/2012   10 comments
Equating YouTube advertising with Super Bowl advertising is a stretch, but AdWords for video does present CMOs with opportunities worth exploring.
How Brands Can Use (& Are Using) Instagram
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4/17/2012   13 comments
Now that Facebook has acquired Instagram, marketers should take a closer look at how the photo-sharing service can enhance their social presence.
Social Media 'Magazines' Pose New Marketing Challenge
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2/15/2011   11 comments
Apps like PostPost, which use input from social networking sites like Facebook, hold marketing potential beyond paid advertising
A Lesson in How Not to Promote Online Sales
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2/8/2011   2 comments
A 3D video software firm's approach to selling its software online proves confusing and negative, despite good intentions
Video Service Tackles Formatting Conundrum
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2/1/2011   3 comments
Vid.ly takes care of formatting marketing videos across multiple sites, and its streams include no branding
Truth: The Latest Online Marketing Vehicle
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1/25/2011   10 comments
The GoodGuide site is leading a potential trend toward using objective data as input for ranking and marketing a range of products
Two Sites, Two Ways to Handle User Information
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1/18/2011   11 comments
CrazyGood and Spokeo showcase two approaches to managing user data; one is constructive, the other is threatening. Which is your preference?
Social Networking ROI's Missing Link May Stay Missing
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1/11/2011   5 comments
It is possible to tabulate ROI for social network traffic, but the techniques required may violate users' privacy
Don't Get Caught in the PII Crossfire
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1/4/2011   4 comments
A recent lawsuit over the collection of personally identifiable information by Apple-ready apps should stir marketers to action
'Flipboard' Concept May Drive Tablet Adoption
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12/28/2010   13 comments
The Flipboard for the iPad, or a yet-to-be-released competitor, may be the killer app that drives tablet adoption
Why 'Login Using Facebook' May Not Make Sense
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12/21/2010   22 comments
It's time to ask what advantage, if any, your site may be getting by providing a 'login using Facebook' capability to your users
Why 'Do Not Track' Will Boost Marketing
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12/14/2010   13 comments
Getting information only from interested customers -- something a "Do not track" proposal may deliver -- could bring better results
Toward a Marketing Payback for Social Media
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12/7/2010   5 comments
The idea of using social media to promote branding raises several important questions
Merchants Looking to Cash In on Check-Ins
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11/24/2010   18 comments
Services like Foursquare and Gowalla are trying to sell merchandise directly through social media, and big companies including Pepsi and Safeway are jumping on
Google Eyes Groupon: Marketers, Head for the Exits
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11/22/2010   28 comments
Given Google's history of burying the companies it buys, marketers who use Groupon should be looking around for alternatives
How Marketers Should Prepare for Facebook Messages
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11/17/2010   8 comments
Marketers will want to watch the new Facebook Messages closely as it's deployed, to be sure that their signal gets through
Marketing Lessons From Amazon's Pedophilia Scandal
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11/15/2010   13 comments
Marketers can learn from the way Amazon dealt with the controversy after news leaked it was selling a guidebook for child molesters
Why Intel Went Into the Journalism Business
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11/10/2010   6 comments
Faced with dwindling numbers of tech journalists to help Intel get its message out, the company decided to launch its own in-house operation
How UPS Uses Social Media for Crisis Communications
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11/8/2010   3 comments
UPS uses social media when it's thrust into the headlines – as when terrorists smuggled a bomb into a printer on a UPS cargo plane
Picking Winners, Losers in Location Services
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11/5/2010   6 comments
Facebook's recent mobile announcement puts further fire under an already hot market. Who will survive the inevitable shakeout?
Exodus Suggests Google's in Decline
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11/3/2010   17 comments
Is Google on the decline, being replaced by Facebook as the new, hot company? Will marketers have to replace their search optimization skills with social media optimization?
Google's 'Place Search' Is a Big Science Project for Marketers
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10/29/2010   12 comments
Marketers for retailers and other location-sensitive businesses will need to stay in command of Google Place Search to make sure their businesses stay – literally – on top
To Play by the Privacy Rules, Marketers Need to Know What They Are
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10/27/2010   16 comments
Privacy rules are confusing, constantly changing, and every once in a while some unlucky company or consumer gets zapped without really knowing what’s going on




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Paul Korzeniowski
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   8 comments
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
Joe Stanganelli
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   10 comments
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
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Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

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Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
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Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

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New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

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While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

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Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

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Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

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The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
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