Top 10 Social Networking Websites & Forums - October 2010. Facebook Becoming Main Source Of Evidence For Divorce Lawyers. In the process of getting un-hitched from your spouse? You might not want to flaunt your extramarital exploits on Facebook, since anything posted to your social network may be used against you in divorce court. More than four-fifths of divorce attorneys surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) say the number of cases citing evidence from social networking sites has increased in the past five years. Facebook, of course, is the most popular. In fact, Facebook was cited by the AAML as a “primary source for compromising information” by 66 percent of respondents. MySpace was the second-most popular at 15 percent, with Twitter at 5 percent. We’ve already written about how Facebook has caused an alarmingly high number of divorces and how one woman learned of her husband’s second marriage through Facebook.
AAML president Marlene Eskind Moses addressed the growing trend in a press release: PR message getting lost to 48% of media, study says. NEW YORK: The message a company aims to portray is getting lost in translation to 48% of the mainstream media, according to a recent study conducted by Burson-Marsteller. The firm conducted a Message Gap Analysis study on 158 messages from 16 Financial Times Global 100 companies. Globally, the US showed a 45% gap between the message a company wants to portray and the message the mainstream media portrays. Europe had a 40% gap, Latin American had 53%, and Asia-Pacific had 58%. The gap widened when it came to company messages and bloggers. The US showed a 76% gap, Europe had 59%, Latin America had 82%, and Asia-Pacific had 63%.
“Messages that were transparent and tied back to brand essence were better represented than messages with aspirational language,” said Ashley Welde, director of research at Burson. Bloggers, Welde said, are a new area for companies to navigate and tend to be independent and insert more opinion. Twitter Followers Most Brand Responsive. Twitter Followers Top Brand Purchasers Results from “The Collaborative Future” indicate that 37% of Twitter followers are more likely to purchase a brand after becoming a follower, compared to 27% of email subscribers and only 17% of Facebook fans.
Interestingly, the percentage of email subscribers who are not more likely to purchase a brand, 32%, is the same percentage of Twitter followers who are not more likely. A much higher percentage of email subscribers are neutral in regard to buying a brand, 41% compared to 34%. In addition to having the smallest percentage of fans more likely to buy a brand, Facebook fans have the highest percentage not more likely to do so, 49%. Twitter Followers Tweet Brand Satisfaction Twitter followers are also more likely to recommend a brand (33%) than email subscribers (24%) or Facebook fans (21%).
When it comes to spreading the word, a higher percentage of email subscribers (36%) than Twitter fans (31%) are not more likely to do so. 90+ Essential Social Media Resources. Now you've gone and done it. You've come across a list so enormous, so useful, and so awesome, our futile attempts to describe it have been lost in the tubes of cyberspace. Subscribers Fans & Followers | ExactTarget. The SUBSCRIBERS, FANS, & FOLLOWERS study was inspired by the three simple tenets of ExactTarget's SUBSCRIBERS RULE! Philosophy: Serve the individual customer Honor his or her unique communication preferences Deliver timely, relevant content that will improve lives In order to live by this philosophy, you have to understand who your customers are, what they're doing, and why they're doing those things.
Social media is rapidly changing the ways consumers can engage with brands online. The SUBSCRIBERS, FANS, & FOLLOWERS study is an in-depth look at how consumers engage with brands through three of the most talked about online channels - Email, Facebook, and Twitter. What motivates consumers to engage with brands through these channels? To do this, we start with the premise that consumers should have the first say about which questions are most appropriate on a survey. Details for SFF #22: The Audience Growth Survey Details for SFF #21: The Digital North Details for SFF #19: The Digital Cafe. OPA News - Press Releases - Online Publishers Association. Untitled. Facebook and Twitter users spend 1.5x more online than the average Internet user.
InShare13 If you want to get a glimpse of the economic future, focus on the emerging trends driven by those defining the evolution of the social Web. Social media is not only democratizing influence and upsetting the traditional media ecosystem, it is now an indicator for a potential economic resurgence. Leading metrics firm, comScore, released its Q1 U.S E-Commerce Spending Report recently, finding that online retail spending approached $34 billion in Q1 2010, which represents a 10 percent boost compared to last year. The surge also symbolizes the first time that growth rates hit double-digits since the second quarter of 2008. In its detailed report, comScore also revealed both interesting and promising insight into the social consumer and their spending habits. Consumers on Twitter According to the report, 23% of Twitter users follow businesses to find special deals, promotions, or sales.
Consumers on Facebook Online Spending #EngageorDie Please consider reading my new book, Engage! Email Marketing Software, Services & Solutions from ExactTarget. Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet. The Ultimate List: 300+ Social Media Statistics. It's evident that the evolution of social media has a clear impact on marketing. However, a major issue is that too much misinformation and propaganda exists about social media adoption, usage and its business applications. While we have written at length about social media and inbound marketing on this blog for the past several years, we are also huge fans of data here at HubSpot. This post is a homage to all of the awesome data that exists on the web about social media, though is by no means even close to all of it. Recently, Social Media Examiner released a really interesting research report packed full of social media related data and statistics.
Videos Industry Report Overview from Michael A. JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. 2. 3. Infographics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Presentations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Study: Today’s grassroots political campaigns burn without social media. July 16, 2010 Social media is fundamentally changing how political-advocacy groups organize grassroots campaigns. A new study by the public relations and communications consultancy Burson-Marsteller found that 97 percent of such groups now use at least one social-media platform to communicate with stakeholders.
The study tracked the presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube of 34 U.S. political-advocacy groups, including the AARP, the Human Rights Campaign and the National Taxpayers Union. Only one of the groups examined had no social media presence on any of the platforms, and 91 percent used all three platforms — most often to communicate their views on specific federal legislation and regulation. But the advocacy groups were more likely to use Twitter than Facebook to relay messages about legislation and regulation: The researchers found an average of 45 “tweets” per group compared to only 21 posts on Facebook.
Why Marketers Can’t Afford to Ignore Baby Boomers. Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Wire | News, Insights & Reports.
How Americans Interact with Government Online - Pew Research Cen. The internet gives citizens new paths to government services and information As government agencies at all levels bring their services online, Americans are turning in large numbers to government websites to access information and services. Fully 82% of internet users (representing 61% of all American adults) looked for information or completed a transaction on a government website in the twelve months preceding this survey.
Some of the specific government website activities in which Americans take part include: Throughout this report, we refer to anyone who did one or more of these activities in the preceding twelve months as an online government user, and most of these online government users exhibit a relatively wide range of behaviors: the typical online government user engaged in four of these activities in the last year. The way we ask about the use of government services has changed over the years, making direct comparisons to our prior findings difficult.
About This Survey. Top 10 U.S. Search Terms by Category, April 2010 - ClickZ. Jack Marshall | May 11, 2010 | 0 Comments inShare0 July's top 10 search terms by search volume from Hitwise. Below, the top 10 search terms by search volume. Data are provided by Hitwise. Hitwise, a subsidiary of Experian, monitors how more than 25 million Internet users, including 10 million in the United States, interact with over 1 million Web sites across more than 160 industry categories. Competitive intelligence, Search intelligence for online adverti. What Age Should You Give Kids a Mobile Phone? See Stats Here | T. Retrevo.com did a great report on giving kids mobile phones. At this point its their future they now have to adapt and keep up with, almost like sending them to pre-pre-kindergarten to get them ahead. Personally, if I had kids I would give em a mobile phone at 1, so they could download the iPhone Apps: How to change your OWN diaper App, Potty Train App, & the Go get a job already App.
For teens you can get the: Its time to move out App. LOL. You can read the rest of Retrevo’s report at UPDATE: You thought I was joking but heres this!! Fisher Price Launches iPhone Apps For 2-Year-Olds. Quantcast - Home. Research - Internet Activity Index - Online Publishers Associati. More Journalists Using Facebook And Twitter. More than a third (37%) of traditional journalists now contribute to Twitter and 39 percent produce content for a blog as part of their expanded duties, according to a new PRWeek/PR Newswire Media Survey. "Across the board you can see a change in journalists’ behavior," said Sarah Skerik, VP of distribution services at PR Newswire. "Journalists are doing more with less. They seem to be acting more aggressively about finding their stories, digging a bit deeper for story angles. " Journalists are using social networks to help find story ideas, with 24 percent reporting they consider sites like Facebook and Twitter an important way to connect with experts, an increase from 13 percent in 2009.
In addition, 46 percent of journalists say they sometimes or always use blogs for research; 33 percent report using social networks in their research, compared to 24 percent in 2009. The popularity of social media has impacted how media professionals are interacting with the PR industry. YouTube Demographics Round-Up :: Elites TV. Humanizing Social Networks: Revealing the People Powering Social. InShare1 Compete: Top 25 Social Networks Social Networks are among the most powerful examples of socialized media. They create a dynamic ecosystem that incubates and nurtures relationships between people and the content they create and share. As these communities permeate and reshape our lifestyle and how we communicate with one another, we’re involuntarily forcing advertisers and marketers to rapidly evolve how they vie for our attention. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Yelp, and other online communities transformed the regimen and practice of marketing “at” people into an opportunity to engage and interact with us – on our terms.
It is the zeitgeist of socialized media and it’s manifesting into an obsession for branding, advertising, “viral,” marketing, and communications experts and professionals worldwide. But, the people who define each network are reticent to the hollow attempts of faceless friending and in-network marketing. Unique visitors provided by compete. Facebook Gender Age Education. S JUNE 2010 Trend Briefing covering "MASS MINGLING". The INTERNET OF CARING THINGS means connected objects that serve consumers' most important needs: physical and mental wellbeing, safety, security, oversight of loved ones, and more.
You're probably already familiar with the innovations that have blazed an early CARING trail. The Nest smart thermostat*, NIKE fuelband and Fitbit, for example. But now, as consumer demand and technological capacity converge, the INTERNET OF CARING THINGS will evolve in exciting new directions. Check out the examples below – divided into five categories of CARING – for a glimpse of these... * Indeed, just after we first wrote about the INTERNET OF CARING THINGS in December 2013, Google placed a USD 3.2 billion bet on it with their purchase of Nest Labs.
Signal enough that this is a trend worth following? The Amazing Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds | Wall St. Cheat Shee. Kids are leading the world’s transition to digital media. This is in part because kids aren’t afraid of technology, and, in part, because kids haven’t spent years getting use to anything else. So if you want to get a sense of where the world’s media habits are headed, it makes sense to watch what kids are doing.
The Kaiser Family Foundation did just that in a comprehensive survey released in January. Kaiser surveyed more than 2,000 families, and turned up all sorts of interesting information about the media habits of 8-18 year olds. Some key points: Kids consume a hell of a lot of media–and more all the time. No big surprise there. In 2/3 of households, TVs are on during mealsIn 75% of households, TVs are on when no one is watching them.More than 70% of kids have TVs in their bedroomsOnly 1/3 of households have media-consumption rules No surprise, more media is consumed in households in which TVs are always on, where there are no rules, and where kids have TVs in their bedrooms.
Consumers say: In tweets we trust.