Saturday 20 October 2012

social media - Google News

Google News


10/20/2012 11:35 PM
Social media politics - Hattiesburg American

Sky News Australia

Social media politics
Hattiesburg American
With two presidential debates behind us and another scheduled for Monday, many people have taken their opinions to Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media. Posts can range from praising a favorite candidate to bashing the opposition, but does ...
Political discourse takes on the face of social networkingKansas City Star
Social media growing in US politicsSky News Australia
Two-thirds use social networking for political, civic activitiesSan Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Business 2 Community -Los Angeles Times -The Hill (blog)
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10/20/2012 04:13 AM
Kathleen Parker: Social media minimize political issues - Statesman Journal

Reuters Blogs

Kathleen Parker: Social media minimize political issues
Statesman Journal
In this, the first social-media presidential election, the debates have come to resemble reality shows during which virtual audiences cast ballots (and aspersions), hiccoughing their impulse-reactions to every word and movement into the intellectual ...
You Win Some, You Lose Some: Of Maxipads and BindersBusiness 2 Community

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10/20/2012 03:28 PM
Spotlight shines on social media in the tweet seats - Houston Chronicle (blog)

Spotlight shines on social media in the tweet seats
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Autumn is the time of year when orchestras and opera companies launch their new seasons. As in the past, plenty of Mozart, Verdi and Beethoven are on offer. But there's also a growing sense of unease and insecurity. It's no secret many classical music ...

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10/20/2012 10:01 PM
Social media is a thorny issue in the US - Financial Times

Social media is a thorny issue in the US
Financial Times
Twitter and Facebook may have become the preferred channel of communication for many individuals and businesses around the world. But within the investment management industry, social media is still an emerging technology. Ill-fitting regulations are a ...


10/20/2012 06:11 PM
FOTAS: Social media wave assists the new county shelter - Aiken Standard

FOTAS: Social media wave assists the new county shelter
Aiken Standard
FOTAS is on the social media bandwagon using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and the FOTAS website. These tools are used for better communication. Events like the Mutt Strut walk for the animals at Woofstock on Nov. 10, PetSmart Adoption Days or ...


10/19/2012 02:00 PM
Judge: George Zimmerman's attorneys can examine Trayvon Martin's school ... - Washington Post

CBS News

Judge: George Zimmerman's attorneys can examine Trayvon Martin's school ...
Washington Post
A judge ruled Friday that attorneys for a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer can inspect the school records and social media postings of the unarmed teenager he is accused of murdering. Judge Debra S. Nelson said that defendant George Zimmerman's ...
Zimmerman's lawyers seek Trayvon Martin's school, social media recordsKansas City Star
Fla. judge rules Zimmerman can have access to Trayvon Martin's school, social ...CBS News
A Jury Will Likely Scrutinize Trayvon Martin's Deleted Facebook And Twitter ...Business Insider
The Grio -allvoices -Catholic Online
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10/19/2012 05:33 PM
Dallas Mourns Big Tex on Social Media - New York Times (blog)

Dallas Mourns Big Tex on Social Media
New York Times (blog)
The 52-foot-tall cowboy statue is such an icon in Dallas that when it was destroyed by a fast-moving electrical fire that began in its size-70 boots on Friday, as my colleague Manny Fernandez reports, the people of the city turned to social media to ...

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10/19/2012 03:04 PM
Social Media Can Hurt Your College Bid - ABC News

Social Media Can Hurt Your College Bid
ABC News
"Most kids have no idea how important it is that their profile[s] online -- Twitter, Facebook, other social media spaces -- need to be appropriate for the admissions process," said Dean Skarlis, president of The College Advisor of New York. "Most kids ...

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10/19/2012 06:29 AM
Social media sensation dies of cancer at age 13 - Businessweek

ABC News

Social media sensation dies of cancer at age 13
Businessweek
The Thumbs-up for Lane campaign, started as a way to encourage the boy and his family, spread worldwide on social media. His followers included country music stars, athletes, politicians and Ernie Brown â€Â" the cable television star known as "The ...
Social media sensation dies of cancer at 13USA TODAY

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10/20/2012 01:04 PM
Social Media Unreined - WBAL Radio

WBAL Radio

Social Media Unreined
WBAL Radio
Facebook and Twitter fans were taking part in the first of its kind social media day at the track billed as "Digital Reins". Their fingers and feet moving seemingly just as fast at times as the Thoroughbreds on the 11 race card at the historic "track ...


digital marketing - Google News

Google News


10/19/2012 11:52 AM
3 Digital Marketing Strategies you Should Not Ignore - Business 2 Community

Entrepreneur

3 Digital Marketing Strategies you Should Not Ignore
Business 2 Community
In the digital world it could be buying Google Adwords and commencing a digital marketing campaign that uses key words and phrases that people would use to find your product or service when searching online, it could also be Facebook ads targeting your ...
An Overview of 2012 SMX StockholmState of Search

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10/19/2012 05:32 AM
10 interesting digital marketing stats we've seen this week - Econsultancy (blog)

10 interesting digital marketing stats we've seen this week
Econsultancy (blog)
... how UK newspapers are performing on Pinterest, the London Olympics, CMOs fear of big data, iOS's dominance of mobile ads, and The Guardian's growth in online readership. For more digital marketing stats, check out our Internet Statistics Compendium.


10/19/2012 12:47 PM
SapientNitro Named a Leader in Independent Research Firm's Evaluation of ... - PYMNTS.com

The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

SapientNitro Named a Leader in Independent Research Firm's Evaluation of ...
PYMNTS.com
SapientNitro, part of Sapient® (NASDAQ: SAPE), today announced that leading research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the Leaders quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Global Digital Marketing Agencies,” published today. Gartner research ...
SapientNitro's Second Annual Insights Report Finds "Connected Thinking" is ...DailyFinance

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10/17/2012 09:25 AM
Google releases new disavow tool exciting digital marketers - Examiner.com

Examiner.com

Google releases new disavow tool exciting digital marketers
Examiner.com
How many digital marketers have received a phone call from a potential or current client who decided to hire an outside no name company for paid links? The website owner starts freaking out because Google notified them that they have too many ...

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10/16/2012 10:08 AM
The Real Secret to Digital Marketing - Forbes

The Real Secret to Digital Marketing
Forbes
Online marketing is full of fast-moving fads and shiny new technologies. So it would be easy â€Â" if your job were to organize three major digital marketing conferences a year, like Allen Bonde does â€Â" to chase after the elusive “new new thing.” But Bonde ...


10/18/2012 02:14 AM
Advanced Digital Marketing: Do This, Not That! - ClickZ

Advanced Digital Marketing: Do This, Not That!
ClickZ
Join us at SES Chicago for a full day of comprehensive learning, case studies, and best practices that will help you improve digital marketing. I am hosting a full-day workshop to boost your email marketing to a higher level. Remember, it is all about ...


10/17/2012 05:24 PM
Digital marketing is growing in Australia, but so is the skills gap - Econsultancy (blog)

Digital marketing is growing in Australia, but so is the skills gap
Econsultancy (blog)
Seven out of ten digital marketers believe they have equal or more digital expertise than their managers and over half think their co-workers lack the skills needed to run successful campaigns. These statistics come from Responsys' third annual Big ...

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10/19/2012 06:27 AM
Dealer's voice: Dealerships catch up to digital marketing - Toronto Star

Toronto Star

Dealer's voice: Dealerships catch up to digital marketing
Toronto Star
A few weeks ago, the Trillium Automobile Dealers Association hosted automotive digital marketing conferences in Toronto, London and Ottawa. All three conferences were full-day events attended by dealer principals, sales managers, automotive students ...


10/17/2012 05:32 PM
SMBs' Digital Marketing Spend Outpaces Online Advertising By 2.5X - ClickZ

SMBs' Digital Marketing Spend Outpaces Online Advertising By 2.5X
ClickZ
Small- to medium-sized businesses are spending an average of $17,000 per year on digital marketing services compared to $6,800 on online advertising, according to research firm Borrell Associates. Website hosting, design, and maintenance comprise ...

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10/17/2012 06:00 AM
Hard Metrics for Tracking Digital Marketing ROI Prove Challenging for Drug ... - The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

Hard Metrics for Tracking Digital Marketing ROI Prove Challenging for Drug ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. â€Â" Only 26% of surveyed drug companies use financial metrics to track return on investment for social media initiatives, according to a study published by Cutting Edge Information. The study, “Pharmaceutical Digital ...


search marketing - Google News

Google News


10/19/2012 10:16 AM
The Convergence of Social & Search - Search Engine Journal

iMedia Connection

The Convergence of Social & Search
Search Engine Journal
In this session at PubCon Las Vegas, I speak about how one can impact their overall search visibility utilizing social media. The two are becoming more inter-twinned each and every day. While search marketing used to consist of good on-page SEO (title ...
Social Metrics Pro Unveils Why it Has Becomes Mandatory Since Social Signals ...Melodika.net (press release)

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10/17/2012 02:53 PM
6 Underrated Content Marketing Assets For B2B SEO - Search Engine Land

Search Engine Land

6 Underrated Content Marketing Assets For B2B SEO
Search Engine Land
One of the biggest obstacles to B2B search engine optimization is developing new content marketing assets for targeting important keywords and acquiring link assets. While our organization has seen this in client relationships throughout the years ...


10/15/2012 11:31 AM
Top Advertisers Select Direct Agents to Manage Their Search Marketing ... - Sacramento Bee

Top Advertisers Select Direct Agents to Manage Their Search Marketing ...
Sacramento Bee
NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Agents, an-award winning digital marketing agency announced today that it was selected by Folica.com, a Top 500 online retailer to manage their search marketing account. Folica.com joins Direct Agents' ...


10/19/2012 08:36 AM
Does Local Search SEO Matter For Small Business Marketing? - Business 2 Community

Entrepreneur

Does Local Search SEO Matter For Small Business Marketing?
Business 2 Community
When was the last time you went out to the theatre, or the cinema or indoor sky diving? Did you go there and then go straight home? Probably not, the chances are you probably stayed local and got a bite to eat or a drink. If you were super organised ...
An Overview of 2012 SMX StockholmState of Search
3 Steps to Protecting Your Website's Search RankingsEntrepreneur

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10/19/2012 04:32 AM
BloomReach Makes Search Sell - Wired (blog)

GigaOM

BloomReach Makes Search Sell
Wired (blog)
Powering all of BloomReach's ad marketing services is the company's Web Relevance Engine. It crawls billions of websites, and analyzes sites users' searching and social behavior, to see how people interact with a particular website. It then crunches ...
BloomReach nets $25M to turn big data into marketing goldGigaOM
Big data marketing application BloomReach gets $25MVatorNews

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10/19/2012 11:52 AM
3 Digital Marketing Strategies you Should Not Ignore - Business 2 Community

3 Digital Marketing Strategies you Should Not Ignore
Business 2 Community
In the digital world it could be buying Google Adwords and commencing a digital marketing campaign that uses key words and phrases that people would use to find your product or service when searching online, it could also be Facebook ads targeting your ...


10/19/2012 08:49 AM
Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went “Not Provided” - Marketing Land

Marketing Land

Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went “Not Provided”
Marketing Land
A year ago, Google began going dark. Dark in terms of no longer sharing with publishers, in some cases, how people searched for and found those publishers through Google's search engine. The “single digit” percentage of withholding that Google ...

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10/18/2012 01:32 PM
Display Advertising Expected to Integrate with Search - iMedia Connection (blog)

MediaPost Communications

Display Advertising Expected to Integrate with Search
iMedia Connection (blog)
However search and display advertising continue to develop, understanding how each works with the other to help you reach your marketing goals is important to the effectiveness of your overall marketing plan. Continue to educate yourself about your ...
Study Shows How Changes To Search Influence Display AdvertisingMediaPost Communications

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10/17/2012 03:19 AM
SEMPO Appeals to FTC for Updated Search Engine Disclosure Guidelines - Search Engine Watch

SEMPO Appeals to FTC for Updated Search Engine Disclosure Guidelines
Search Engine Watch
Search marketing industry association SEMPO has appealed to the FTC for a review and revision of the 2002 guidelines for search engine disclosure of paid advertisements in search results. In addition, SEMPO has offered “valuable insight and background ...


10/19/2012 09:10 PM
Mobile marketing seminar scheduled for Nov. 6 - Your Houston News

Mobile marketing seminar scheduled for Nov. 6
Your Houston News
Yenneti provides free educational seminars on Social Media, Search Engine Optimization, Online marketing and Website branding with various organizations like SCORE, Lone Star College SBDC, The Woodlands & Conroe Chambers, Capital One Bank, ...

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mobile marketing - Google News

Google News


10/19/2012 09:10 PM
Mobile marketing seminar scheduled for Nov. 6 - Your Houston News

Mobile marketing seminar scheduled for Nov. 6
Your Houston News
The Mobile Marketing Seminar is being presented by Siva Yenneti, president of ITVibes, Inc. ITVibes is a web design and local marketing company that has proven to deliver high-end results creating effective online presence for businesses. Posted ...

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10/19/2012 08:04 AM
Mobile Marketing & Advertising Service Launched by TENiFY with Houston ... - San Francisco Chronicle

Mobile Marketing & Advertising Service Launched by TENiFY with Houston ...
San Francisco Chronicle
TENiFY (web: imagetexting.com), a leader in next generation SMS mobile marketing and advertising solutions, has announced an innovative partnership with the Houston Apartment Association (HAA) as part of their imageTexting service. The new ...


10/20/2012 08:44 AM
Mobile marketing techniques are starting to be identified for success - QR Code Press

QR Code Press

Mobile marketing techniques are starting to be identified for success
QR Code Press
Though very few have suggested that mcommerce is already an important channel and that mobile marketing is becoming vital to the success of any business, it isn't until quite recently that the right strategies have started to become identified to allow ...


10/19/2012 12:48 PM
Apsalar is Now Measuring and Optimizing Mobile Marketing Initiatives for ... - ADOTAS

The Next Web (blog)

Apsalar is Now Measuring and Optimizing Mobile Marketing Initiatives for ...
ADOTAS
Apsalar's Campaign Source Insights, announced earlier this summer, has now been enhanced with universal campaign insights, enabling measurement for any campaign on iOS with Android coming soon. With this functionality, marketers can now more ...
Apsalar adds support for Facebook's new mobile ads to track iOS and Android ...The Next Web (blog)
Apsalar Mobile Analytics Can Now Track The Effectiveness Of Facebook's New ...TechCrunch

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10/19/2012 05:14 AM
Are Mobile Marketing Stocks The Answer to Silicon Valley's Problems? AUGT ... - SmallCap Network

Are Mobile Marketing Stocks The Answer to Silicon Valley's Problems? AUGT ...
SmallCap Network
Mobile marketing stocks Augme Technologies (AUGT), MDC Partners (MDCA), Millennial Media (MM), Motricity (MOTR) and Velti Plc (VELT) haven't exactly figured out how to make mobile marketing profitable either. By John Udovich. Oct 19, 2012 4:05:40 ...


10/20/2012 05:43 AM
Q&A: Mobile's Real Work Begins Post-campaign - MediaPost Communications

MediaPost Communications

Q&A: Mobile's Real Work Begins Post-campaign
MediaPost Communications
Marketers are spending increasing amounts of time and money crafting mobile marketing campaigns. But once the campaigns have gone out, the real work begins, says Brendan O'Kane, CEO at OtherLevels, which helps mobile marketers analyze their ...


10/17/2012 11:32 AM
Auto'Mobile' Marketing Driving the Innovation Highway - iMedia Connection (blog)

iMedia Connection (blog)

Auto'Mobile' Marketing Driving the Innovation Highway
iMedia Connection (blog)
In its simplest form, mobile marketing started with rudimentarily optimized mobile websites and text message marketing, followed by targeted banner ads, followed by search giants Google and Yahoo in the mix, combining results with local mapping and ...


10/18/2012 01:17 PM
NFC Mobile Marketing Pilot Delivers for Kraft - brandchannel.com

NFC Mobile Marketing Pilot Delivers for Kraft
brandchannel.com
News America Marketing (NAM), publisher of coupons in the U.S. and Canada, in partnership with thinaire, a cloud-based platform for NFC marketing campaigns, and Kraft, recently teamed up on a retail innovation pilot in the San Francisco area using ...


10/18/2012 09:08 AM
Six mobile marketing tools fit for small and local businesses - Econsultancy (blog)

Econsultancy (blog)

Six mobile marketing tools fit for small and local businesses
Econsultancy (blog)
Text messaging's maturity may make it one of the least exciting mobile marketing techniques but that doesn't mean that it can't be one of the most effective when used appropriately. Numerous companies make it easy for small businesses to build ...


10/20/2012 08:55 PM
Your Verizon Phone May Be Collecting Too Much Data - PC Magazine

Your Verizon Phone May Be Collecting Too Much Data
PC Magazine
Mobile devices are capable of collecting a lot of information about user habits, including geographic location, contact details, and app usage. What are the carriers doing with this data? Verizon appears to be selling it. Precision Market Insights, the ...

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