Facebook 2010 Sales Said Likely to Reach $2 Billion, More Than Estimated. Facebook Inc., the world’s most popular social-networking service, is likely to generate 2010 revenue of about $2 billion, a larger sum than projected earlier, according to three people familiar with the matter. Sales will more than double from 2009, said the people, who declined to be identified because the privately held company doesn’t disclose revenue. Facebook had $700 million to $800 million in sales last year, and the 2010 figure was previously expected to be closer to $1.5 billion, according to two other people familiar with the matter earlier this year. Facebook’s more than half a billion users have made it an attractive target for advertisers, including Coca-Cola Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Adidas AG. In October, Facebook surpassed Yahoo! Inc. when ranked by the number of global users, making it No. 3 behind Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., according to ComScore Inc., a research firm in Reston, Virginia.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc. Close Close Open. Login - Advertising Age. 4 LinkedIn Tips to Help You Stand Out. Very few people ignore you in real life, face-to-face networking situations. So why do they do it to you online? The simple answer is because they probably don’t even realize that they are! Be honest. Do you follow up on every LinkedIn connection request you get? No, probably not. I’ll bet you click “accept” and that’s as far as you go. When someone requests to connect with you and you simply click “accept” and make no effort to carry on the conversation, you’re both simply saying hello to each other and it stops dead there. So how can you use social etiquette to really make your LinkedIn connections valuable and stand out from the crowd at the same time? Follow the 4 steps below and watch your reputation grow. View LinkedIn as your own boardroom of connections versus your coffee shop connections on Twitter or Facebook. . #1: Send Personalized Connection Requests We’ll use Paul as an example.
This gives you the opportunity to remind Paul where you know him from. So what should happen? 26 Twitter Tips for Enhancing Your Tweets. Almost anyone these days can throw together 140 characters and call it a tweet. But to use Twitter for maximum business impact there are many tried and true content sources ready to be used. In this post I’ll introduce practical ways to use good content for your tweets, everything from A to Z. #1: Answers Think about the questions your customers and prospects asked you this past week. To get started, create a list of questions, and answer them in your tweets one by one—paying particular attention to the most relevant at this time. . #2: Behind the Scenes Anne Handley refers to this type of content sharing as the “insider’s view of your company,” where you have the opportunity to share updates about the projects and work you’re currently involved in.
. #3: Case Studies Dust off those case studies and offer them via your tweets for immediate download. . #4: Daily Deals #5: Events When you’re hosting or attending an event, you can send out a tweet to let followers know about it. . #6: Factoid #7: Guide. Transformation Education Live! Always Merging Tech, Living and L. Transformation Education Live! Always Merging Tech, Living and Learning! By admin in +TE Live Episode , 21st Century Learning , Business-Work , Coaching , Social Media , Tech tips , adults , career topics , higher education , professional life , twitter Ep 33 Social Media for Our Professional Lives [21:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Twitter, Facebook, Linked in, what does it have to do with my career? Kathy and Paige share great stories and strategies for using social media to advance your professional learning and development.
Lots of resources, opportunities and top notch advice from two women who are living on the cutting edge of professional social media wave. Welcome back to Transformation Education Live with Dr Kathy King and Paige Eissinger. Don’t forget for complete notes and resources always visit this blog and follow us on Twitter Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Transformation Education LLC, 2010 www.transformationed.com Also available in Dr. Dr. By Dr. Scholars Use Social-Media Tools to Hold Online Academic Conferen. More than 100 researchers interested in the emerging field of the social history of computer programming are running what may be the first academic conference held entirely using Web 2.0 tools.
There have certainly been online conferences before, but the group’s idea is to hold a limited-time online conversation using a bloglike network, Twitter, and Facebook. The leader of the conference, Mark C. Marino, an assistant professor in the writing program at the University of Southern California, said that he expected to attract only a few graduate students but that he has been surprised to get a mix of professors and students from around the world. “I literally could not believe the stature of people who were coming to the table,” he said in an interview. The conference, called the Critical Code Studies Working Group, started on February 1 and runs until March 12. (CCSWG from Mark Marino on Vimeo.) Return to Top. Can Social Media Co-Exist with Traditional Marketing? - The Soci.