Study: Amazon.com is most trusted brand in U.S. | Software, Inte. New consumer research released today by Millward Brown reveals that Amazon.com is the top performing brand in the U.S. based on "trust" and "recommendation. " Nokia tops the chart in eight other countries with Toyota garnering the top spot in both Canada and Japan (Clearly, this data was compiled before Toyota's recent mishaps.) According to a summary of the full report, only 1 percent of brands achieve scores of over 120, with 27 percent getting scores of 105 or higher. What's interesting to note is that Amazon only ranks at No. 41 of the world's most valuable brands on the BrandFinance Global 500 chart, where Wal-Mart remains king of the hill. The report asserts that trust remains essential as it represents the customer's belief, cultivated over time, in the efficacy and reliability of the brand.
According to the report, long-term brand success requires trust plus recommendation and brands with higher scores enjoy several advantages. Untitled. Disable Google Buzz and Lose your Google Profile ?? Of all the issues I've had with Google, this could be the icing on the cake. I'm not happy with Google Buzz. I hate getting emails from Google Buzz with my Tweets.
What put me over the edge? I went to my Google profile (I had my personal URL ported there so that when anyone looked for MarshaCollier.com, they'd get my profile). When I opened the profile I saw that Google Buzz had invaded the entire page! There was another tab that's now entitled ABOUT ME as a secondary option. The About Me tab revealed my original Google profile. It's a PROFILE, Google, get it? There was an option to disable Google Buzz. Seriously? Social Norms? Twitter Users Follow the 79/7 Rule in the U.K. | N. Alex Burmaster, Communications Director, UK & EMEA, Nielsen’s online division The Pareto principle, more commonly known as the 80/20 rule, is the idea that roughly 80 percent of activity will be accounted for by 20 percent of the participants. Vilfredo Pareto’s initial observation at the start of the 20th century, that 80 percent of Italy’s land was owned by 20 percent of the population, has become a common rule of thumb in business, but does it hold up when tracking activity for the U.K.'s most popular social networks?
To see if it does, we equated activity with ‘time spent’ to reflect who is posting or consuming content. Grouping Twitter’s U.K. audience in this way reveals ‘light’ users account for 67 percent of the site’s audience and average less than 2 minutes on the site during the month. Pareto would suggest that 20 percent of the visitors to a site would account for 80 percent of the total time spent on that site. In fact, when looking at a distribution graph of the U.K. Share photos on Twitter. How Social Engagement is Changing. This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us!
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If an agency has ever pitched you on outreach to women's blogs and they don't mention the BlogHer network, there's something wrong with them. BlogHer and its 2,500 contributing blog affiliates are celebrating the network's 5 year anniversary with the combined traffic of 21 million unique visitors per month and some huge lessons learned along the way.
ReadWriteWeb spoke to co-founder Elisa Camahort Page to find out what it's like to run a women's network in a man's world. According to the Catalyst Census, "From 1995 to 2005, the average rate of increase in women's representation on Fortune 500 corporate boards was, on average, one-half of one percentage point per year. At that rate of growth, it would take another 70 years for women to hold approximately 50 percent of Fortune 500 board seats and reach parity with men. " A year later the conference lead to a publishing network and a diverse range of female bloggers joined forces with the trio to promote discussion across their domains. Old Guard: News in the Raw. “Anonymous” wins a Polk Award? What’s going on here? The award is of historic journalistic merit, for the network video of the dying of Neda Agha-Soltan, from a bullet wound suffered at a protest in Tehran last June.
Right up there with the Pulitzer Prize-winning photos by Eddie Adams of the spontaneous street execution of a Viet Cong prisoner in 1968, and John Paul Filo of the Valley Daily News & Daily Dispatch of Tarentum and New Kensington, Pennsylvania, of a student mourning over the body of a murdered student protester and Kent State in 1970. . But “anonymous”?
Unprecedented. Important. “Anonymous,” surely plural, were the people who recorded the death scene, uploaded the video to the Internet, and spread it, almost instantaneously, to the world. Darnton recalls the deliberations of the Awards Committee, which recognized the drama and impact of the video: “Isn’t that the definition of news?. He does take umbrage, though, against the term “citizen journalist.” “Same thing here. Daily Telegraph leads British Press Awards nominations - Press G. The Daily Telegraph and Guardian lead the nominations in this year's British Press Awards with 19 shortlisted entries each. After a year in which the Daily Telegraph dominated the news agenda with its series of revelations about MPs' expenses its journalists are nominated in categories including scoop of the year, political journalist of the year and reporter of the year.
The Guardian has the next most nominations with 17 (with an additional two nominations shared with sister title The Observer) followed by The Sunday Times on 15, The Times on 12, the Daily Mail with 11 and the Mail on Sunday and Daily Mirror with 10 a piece. The British Press Awards are run by Wilmington in association with Press Gazette. A long-list for the top prize of journalist of the year is expected to be released by Wilmington later this week. The winners will be decided after a second round of judging this week overseen by Bob Satchwell and will be announced on the evening of 23 March at Grosvenor House. Cartoon J. 10 Questions to Evaluate a Social Media 'Expert' | Internet Mark. If you know more than 5 people, chances are you now know someone who declares themselves a social media expert.
How can you tell if someone’s claim of expertise is legit? Here’s my quick quiz. Ask each question and take the appropriate action: 1: Do you have a blog? If the expert answers ‘no’, that may be OK. If the expert answers ‘yes’, get the address and go look. Any social media expert has been somehow participating in the conversation for a long time. 2: When did you start in social media? “6 months ago” . “2 years ago”. “In 1992″. 3: What is social media? “Blogging and Twitter and stuff”. “All of the conversations going on between people and people and businesses and such online”. “A trendy term to describe a new kind of mass media”. 4: What’s a social media campaign? “Voting something to the front page of Digg using my proxy server and 35 computers”. “Developing a great message and then reaching out to people, while giving them an incentive to ‘pass it on’”. “Huh?” “Google alerts”.
How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Magazine. Illustration: Markus Hofko Your random tweets about Android apps and last night’s Glee are stifling the economic recovery. At least, that’s the buzz among efficiency mavens, who seem to spend all their time adding up microblogging’s fiscal toll. Last year, Nucleus Research warned that Facebook shaves 1.5 percent off total office productivity; a Morse survey estimated that on-the-job social networking costs British companies $2.2 billion a year. But for knowledge workers charged with transforming ideas into products — whether gadgets, code, or even Wired articles — goofing off isn’t the enemy. In fact, regularly stepping back from the project at hand can be essential to success. And social networks are particularly well suited to stoking the creative mind. Studies that accuse social networks of reducing productivity assume that time spent microblogging is time strictly wasted. That doesn’t mean that employees should feel free to play Minesweeper at will, however.
Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana - Newsweek.com. After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Baloney. Consider today's online world. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness.
Won't the Internet be useful in governing? Point and click:Then there are those pushing computers into schools. Then there's cyberbusiness. What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Share photos on Twitter. Twitter, The BNP, the nutter and John Barnes « Themanwhofellasle. Please note: I have amended this blog so it no longer personally identifies the woman in question. For the last few months I’ve been really enjoying Twitter. But Twitter, like so many corners of the internet, has its weirdos. Yesterday seemed like quite a normal day. I was doing a poll asking my followers which newsreader they would rather sleep with, Krishnan Guru-Murthy or Gavin Esler. As the contest reached its climax I tweeted: “This is a far more fiercely contested poll than previous ones.
One woman, @suzy——–, a decidedly orange housewife from Liverpool, seemed to take exception to it: “Y’see if u insult females by assuming they would orgasm at ur tweet u just make urself look a dick!! Which seemed odd, because I wasn’t suggesting my tweet would make women orgasm (if I had that effect I’d tweet even more often). But Suzy wasn’t finished. She then followed it up with “@themanwhofell time u apologised to the ladies. She then tweeted: “I c u follow nick griffin. I replied: “Sigh. Ps. And. You Suck at Craigslist | Exactly what it says on the tin. Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights « Amy Samp. Tonight, I attended a live panel discussion on the question of whether Technology is Really Good for Human Rights, or not. Below are live notes – apologies for spelling and grammar – that follow the main points and audience q/a.
Enjoy! Context for the event from Rory Cellan-Jones: Prevailing ethos of the web has been libertarian, optimistic about the potential of the internet to be a medium of free expression and break down barriers. That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care. Tweets and highlights from this event on Twitter at #AITech Panelists include: Susan Pointer: declaring an interest as a passionate advocate of the potential of internet technology.
Andrew Keen: I would never argue that technology is against human rights. Questions: Even in China? Kevin Anderson: Yes. Broadcast Yourself. NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night - The Big Picture - Bosto. Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home Ahead Of Foreclosure - Cincinnat. MOSCOW, Ohio —Like many people, Terry Hoskins has had troubles with his bank. But his solution to foreclosure might be unique. Hoskins said he's been in a struggle with RiverHills Bank over his Clermont County home for nearly a decade, a struggle that was coming to an end as the bank began foreclosure proceedings on his $350,000 home. "When I see I owe $160,000 on a home valued at $350,000, and someone decides they want to take it ? No, I wasn't going to stand for that, so I took it down," Hoskins said. Hoskins said the Internal Revenue Service placed liens on his carpet store and commercial property on state Route 125 after his brother, a one-time business partner, sued him. The bank claimed his home as collateral, Hoskins said, and went after both his residential and commercial properties.
"The average homeowner that can't afford an attorney or can fight as long as we have, they don't stand a chance," he said. Hoskins told News 5's Courtis Fuller that he issued the bank an ultimatum. CrimeReports | The National Crime Map. Who Pays, and When, for NYTimes.com Still Up for Discussion - Di.
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Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input. Our human editors are: Lidija Davis, Mahendra Palsule, Andre Garrigo, David Connell, Jarrod Cugley, and occasionally Omer Horvitz and Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera. My Favourite Tweets. Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy? The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created by a large tech company, and all but one remains independent. It's an interesting phenomenon, when you think about it. Large tech companies have had limited to no success creating their own social media home runs.
In an era where communication is increasingly taking place on these channels, the inability of these digital giants to build social networks is rather striking. Two titans in particular are making social media headlines for different reasons: Yahoo has decided not to create it own social network, but is instead striking partnership deals with Facebook and Twitter. Partnership vs. in-house development; content vs. technology; Yahoo vs. Let's take a look, shall we? Google premium display ads to be 'next billion dollar business' Msnbc.com Adds @BreakingNews Twitter Feed to Homepage - mediabis. Social business beyond just the marketing departmen.
The Real Reason AOL Can't Spend More Than $100 Million On An Acq. Poll: Best Royalty Free Stock Photo Sites for Bloggers - Online. Gowalla Follows Foursquare's Lead with Real-Life Incentives. Twitter Analysis: Influencers Still Signing Up; Lots of Follower. March Madness iPhone App Live Streaming Will Work Over 3G And Wi. Public data. Pandora's lesson: Your first business model doesn't have to be y.
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