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Social Networks/Blogs Now Account for One in Every Four and a Half ...

Social Networks/Blogs Now Account for One in Every Four and a Half ...

Integrate Social Media Into Your Website - Social Media Integration Tips - Entrepreneur.com Free Webinar | August 16th Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » Your website is your online center of operations, but if you use social media as part of your advertising, market positioning and promotional efforts, your presence is scattered across the web. While establishing a business presence in popular social venues like Facebook and Twitter may be crucial to your online community building initiatives, maintaining that presence can test your endurance and ability to maximize the impact of your efforts. Streamline Your Efforts With Feeds Posting to your company's blog, your Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, and other social media sites can become quite a burden, especially if you post fresh content at least three to four times a week as I recommend.

Effect of buffalo mozzarella cheese consumption on nutritional status and serum profile of mice. - CAB Direct Abstract The main objective of this study was to compare the effects of consumption of mozzarella cheese of buffalo and cow milks by biochemical and biological evaluation methods. Forty male rats were divided into four groups: Control Group (CG), with casein-based rations; Buffalo Milk Mozzarella Cheese Group (GQB) with buffalo milk mozzarella cheese based rations, the Cow Milk Mozzarella Cheese Group (GQV), with cow milk mozzarella cheese based rations and the aproteic group (GA). All groups had ad libitum access to water and food. You are viewing sample pages from CABI's life sciences databases on CAB Direct. To learn more about our products please visit our website.Please recommend this service to your librarian. To search over 9 million abstracts like this from 1910 onwards please purchase access. Buy Instant Access »

How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0 - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Strategy Over the past three years, we have tracked the rising adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as the ways organizations are using them. This year, we sought to get a clear idea of whether companies are deriving measurable business benefits from their investments in the Web. Our findings indicate that they are. Podcast How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey results Nearly 1,700 executives from around the world, across a range of industries and functional areas, responded to this year’s survey. Their responses suggest why Web 2.0 remains of high interest: 69 percent of respondents report that their companies have gained measurable business benefits, including more innovative products and services, more effective marketing, better access to knowledge, lower cost of doing business, and higher revenues. Benefits of Web 2.0 This year’s survey turned up strong evidence that these advantages are translating into measurable business gains (Exhibit 1). Who benefits

Value-Train - Six Sigma & Lean Certification Training Comparision of Camel, Cow, Goat and Buffalo Milk It is amazing how much you can discover about a person’s culture through the foods that that they eat. On our last trip to Jordan I asked our guide, Ahmed if he liked camel’s milk but he looked at me askance and said that he never drank it. Then I ask him about his favorite meal and he immediately said Maklouba, a rice and meat casserole popular in the Middle East. Jordanians as a whole, both the Palestinians and Bedouins, are very fond of yogurt, especially sheep or goat yogurt and eat it in a variety of ways. Prof. In order to make sense of all these varieties of milk, I have made a table comparing four major sources, cow, camel, buffalo and goat. Buffalo milk is the most popular in India where it is made into the local cheese called paneer. Comparision of buffalo, camel, cow and goat milk The levels of fat, protein and lactose listed in the table are approximate. Interesting links and information: The Creaming Properties and Size Distribution of Fat Globules in Camel Milk, Z.

Move Over Social Media; Here Comes Social Business It takes extraordinary chutzpah to promote a vision before it can be fully realized by your audience, let alone your company. IBM did just that in 1997 when it introduced the notion of e-business. Fourteen years later, it is doing it again with a concept they call social business. Given its prescience about e-business, a concept that radically transformed how companies buy and sell their products, it is hard to dismiss their latest idée fixe. That said, getting your arms around this grandiose idea is not easy. 1. While social media has helped many companies become more customer-centric, it is treated primarily as a modestly effective marketing tool. 2. One of the notions behind becoming a social business is that your employees should be front and center in your digital activities. 3. Becoming a social business means recognizing the need for your employees to become “digital citizens” and providing the training for them to manage their digital reputations. 4. 5. 6. 7. Final Note

Altimeter Report: The Two Career Paths of the Corporate Social ... The full 27-page report is embedded below, if you can’t see it, please click directly to this blog post to access it. This Social Media Decision Maker Must Choose One of Two Career Paths. This emerging role is critical to the success of social media programs yet, most Social Strategists and their programs lack maturity, with only 23% of Social Strategists having a formalized program with long-term direction. Webinars, Events, Conferences Featuring This Resesarch If you want to learn more and ask me questions, please join me in the following appearances to discuss these research findngs: Details: Program size, Headcount, Maturity, Skills, Organizational Formations We surveyed over 140 professionals, interviewed 39 in the role, and 12 that are working with them. Open Research: Use It, and Spread it Widely The more you spread it, the easier it is for me to produce more Open Research. Join the Discussion Below: How Will Strategists Avoid a Career in Help Desk?

BBC Inside Out - East - Buffalo Milk - The Healthy Alternative Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats As our digital and physical lives blur further, the internet has become the information hub where people spend a majority of their time learning, playing and communicating with others globally. Digital marketing professionals understand this, but most outside the industry don’t realize just how staggering the numbers are of people collaborating, researching, and interacting on the web. I thought it might be fun to take a step back and look at some interesting/amazing social media, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing and internet statistics. I tried to find stats that are the most up-to-date as possible at the time of publishing this post. The numbers presented below should be a close representation of today’s numbers (please correct me in the comments if you find more recent numbers somewhere and I’ll update). Let’s break them down by section: Google search stats: 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) – approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index (source) Wikipedia stats (source) YouTube stats source

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