Social Media Should Cost More Than PR. How much do I charge? The question that everyone in the service business, sooner or later, must face. “How much do you charge for these services?” The clients always ask, usually before they have any idea of what I do or don’t do. Of course I always answer the question. Why Facebook Places Will Make Foursquare into a Footnote. Wade Roush8/19/10 If Facebook is doing location, then location must finally be real.
Free Wi-Fi Hotspots Outnumber Paid Wi-Fi in the U.S. Says JiWire. The number of free wireless hotspots in the U.S. outnumber paid Wi-Fi locations for the first time, with 55.1 percent of public Wi-Fi locations available at no charge, according to a report from JiWire, an advertising company that focuses marketing specifically through Wi-Fi networks.
Driving growth on the supply side are carrier and cable implementations of free hotspots, along with retailers like Sam’s Club finding value-add and location-based services to pair with traditional brick-and-mortar advertising. JiWire’s Insights report for the second quarter of 2010 show that growth of free Wi-Fi isn’t a U.S. -only phenomenon. Worldwide, seven of the top ten countries ranked by the number of public hotspots added locations, with France taking the lead in growth. France took the number three spot from the UK in terms of total hotspots by boosting its total number of public hotspots 12.8 percent this past quarter. Related GigaOM Pro content (sub req’d): Discounted Movie Tickets in Washington DC - kgb deals. Online - Top Stories.
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Looking at the Republican Candidate Field. Barack Obama's decline in popularity over the last year has received a lot of attention.
What hasn't gotten as much is that all four of the leading potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates have also seen their favorability numbers take a hit during that period of time. Obama's decline since our August 2009 national poll is 11 points. A year ago he was at a +10 net approval (52/42) and now he's at -1 (47/48). The Republican whose favorability has really fallen during that same time period, to a greater extent even than Obama, is Mike Huckabee. AdFreak: How about putting Obama on a new $1 bill? At the time of his election, President Obama might have actually had a shot at gracing some American currency.
Not so much now. Wired Says 'The Web is Dead' — On Its Increasingly Profitable Website. @psybab: I really liked Boing Boing's chart, which everyone should click through and read, but didn't think they came close to "destroying" Anderson's contention.
Boing Boing showed the web is growing even if its slice of the overall internet pie is getting smaller. MSNBC Beats CNN In Consecutive Weeks For First Time In 10 Years. How the internet is changing language. 16 August 2010Last updated at 10:01 By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News 'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang.
But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed? The web is a hub of neologisms In April 2010 the informal online banter of the internet-savvy collided with the traditional and austere language of the court room. Drugs and Alcohol Threatened by Outside-the-Box Thinking. What Is It About 20-Somethings? 5 Differences Between Social Media and Social Networking. American Apparel Nears Bankruptcy. From cavorting in the company's factory in his underwear to calling his models "sluts," American Apparel CEO Dov Charney has been a whiz at making headlines – but that talent is unlikely to save his company.
The bright, breezy (and slightly sleazy) clothing brand could go bankrupt shortly, according to a company press release. The 2007 Inc. 5000 company announced that slumping sales (down 16 percent), huge second quarter losses (somewhere between $5 million and $7 million), and the likelihood that it will breach the terms of its loan agreement with its main lender "raise substantial doubt that the company will be able to continue as a going concern" and that "the company may not have sufficient liquidity necessary to sustain operations for the next twelve months.
" Friend request from your professor? This one hopes you accept. As a professor and researcher who studies how college students use social media, I read Jenn DeLuca’s post about not accepting Facebook friend requests from her professors with interest.
Jenn’s view is one along a possible continuum of how students feel about Facebook use by faculty members. Political Opposition to High Speed Rail is Beyond Stupidity. High speed rail remains a sort of punching bag when it comes to rhetoric about government spending and America’s unstoppable devotion to the automobile.
I’m not one to get too political about sustainability since I think it should be a non-political common sense issue. But sometimes I have to let things fly. SmartBlog On Social Media » Do you really need a social-media strategy? SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. 350.org's Photostream. Xbox Will Be The Killer App For Windows Phone 7. NationalField - Data-Driven Campaign Management Software for Your Organization. Facebook May Introduce Location Service, Mimicking Fast-Growing Foursquare. Facebook Inc. unveiled a service that makes it easier for users to share their whereabouts with other people, making a deeper push into a fast-growing market pioneered by Foursquare Labs Inc. The feature, called Places, is aimed at helping users of the social network find friends and disclose their own location, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said today. Places works with existing location-aware tools offered by Foursquare, as well as Gowalla Inc., Zuckerberg said.
Services that help Web users share their whereabouts and find nearby friends could generate as much as $4.1 billion in annual ad sales by 2015, according to Borrell Associates. The features can help marketers more easily target customers -- say, by reaching shoppers when they’re close to making a purchase. In the future, Facebook may include an advertising component to Places, Zuckerberg said at an event in Palo Alto, California.
Close. Aug 17, 2010 - alexpriest's posterous. Aug 17, 2010 - alexpriest's posterous. Create The Good: Klout Influence Summary. Looks As If Facebook Is Testing Out A New Slimmer, Sexier Like Button. Though it has only been out for a few months, it seems as if Facebook’s Like button is all over the web. And despite some initial backlash, a lot of people seem to like it (see what I did there?). It now appears that Facebook may already be testing a new version of the Like button. [Update below] As you can see in the screenshots in this post, the Like button now has the like count on the right side of the actual button in its own smaller box.
When you click on this new button, it brings the number inside the actual Like box. Twitter: Too Many Talkers, Not Enough Listeners. Evernote Surpasses 4 Million Users. Evernote's growth isn't showing signs of slowing down; the popular note-taking software now has 4 million users. Google Buzz Gets A “Who To Follow” Feature Too. When to use i.e. in a sentence. Foursquare Tweaks Its Privacy Settings, Offers Finer Controls.
Effective Communciation Begins with a First Impression - JD Schramm - The Conversation. By JD Schramm | 3:24 PM August 17, 2010 [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] WOAH, might want to double-check that CNN. White House moves to ease travel restrictions to Cuba. The White House is preparing measures that would expand opportunities for Americans to travel to Cuba and send money there, congressional and Obama administration officials said Tuesday.
The measures would make it easier for Americans to get U.S. government licenses for cultural, educational and sports exchanges, according to congressional aides briefed on the new policy. Twitter Jumps On User Stories Bandwagon; Debuts ‘Tales’ Facebook recently launched a marketing campaign around their 500 million users milestone, called Facebook Stories, which is a collection of tales from members that used the social network to find love, happiness and more. Google followed suit, launching Google Stories, which is essentially the same thing, except the search giant collects stories from users sharing tales about how Google effected their lives. Today, Twitter is launching a similar marketing campaign, called Twitter Tales, that showcases ways in which users interact with the microblogging platform. Twitter Tales range from and Indian member who uses Twitter as a form of self therapy to the Caltrain account, that notifies users of delays around the commuter train service.
CHART OF THE DAY: Here's Why People Who Don't Use The Internet Don't Use The Internet. DC Mythbusting: Most Extreme Weather Ever. Radicalcartography. David Paterson's Office Has Ways of Dealing with Mosque Developers (Such as Choking, Intimidating) New favorites in an old city. « Nicole in D.C. The 'Ground Zero mosque' isn't at Ground Zero and isn't only a mosque. It's two blocks away, and organizers say it will be open to everyone, not just to Muslims coming to practice their religion. - baltimoresun.com. August 14, 2010|By Jean Marbella, The Baltimore Sun Even in last week's steamy heat, I got the same chill I always get at Ground Zero. The immensity of the physical and emotional hole left by the 9/11 terrorist attack is hard to imagine from afar — you have to actually be there, looking down into the abyss. Newmediajim. How Hallowed? - The Daily Dish.
Olbermann Special Comment. “Twitter track on steroids” announced by TweetMeme founder. China’s Smoking Habit: Inhaling the Numbers - China Real Time Report. TBD.com for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Alexander Howard: Emergency Social Data Summit Highlights the Role of Social Media During Crises.