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In a recession, budgets are tightened, jobs are cut, and those who remain are expected to do more with less. Given this type of economic reality, it's surprising to hear of an industry reporting an increase in spending on anything, much less on something as new as social media. Yet that's exactly what's occurring. According (Read More)
: interesting but not really clear who the survey group was. >250 employees could mean 250-100,000. a $100k budget for a fortune 500 company to spend on social media is nothing.
: "According to a new Forrester Research survey of 145 global interactive marketers in both B2B and B2C companies with more than 250 employees, the use of social media as a marketing tool is on the rise. What's more, Forrester reports that over 50% of marketers said they will be increasing their spending on social media marketing in the coming months."
Paul's shared items in Google Reader
Living on the cutting edge as early adopters at times can seem like an exclusive club. The tools we use every day have funny names to the outside world - Twitter... OPML... Technorati... Plurk? But while we're hanging out in these oxygen-poor communities, and seeking out new ways to aggregate all our online activities in on (Read More)
: @louisgray I use the email feature all the time. I used to email my self so I can store great and important stuff in Gmail. Thanks for a great article.
: @cass Try commenting when you share, instead of after sharing. If you comment after sharing socialmedian does not re-crawl and place the story again.
: @scottwheaton Just as an FYI - yep, I comment at the point of sharing, using g reader's 'share with note' function, if that's what you mean. Still does not import over. I'm ok with it, but just in case you guys would like to look into it :)
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Macworld
From having your laptop stolen to being snooped on a wireless network, there are all sorts of ways your private data can be compromised. Joe Kissell explains what you can do about it.
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from Digg:
Twitter is an amazing service that we all love, everyday we notice a new twitter tool or service that makes using it more easy and fun. Today we wanted to highlight more than 60 of our favorite Twitter add-ons, tools and services that won’t resist. Let us know your favorite twitter tool and why you like it. (Read More)
: 'Twiter is an amazing service that we all love' I thought thought it was ugly and couldn't see a use for it until last Tuesday . . . when I started using socialmedian. First impressions are always right!@simonharris
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Here at team socialmedian, we think that this is how product development is supposed to work.Just last week we surveyed a sample of socialmedian users on a range of topics including potential new socialmedian features.Based on a user's suggestion, we included in the survey the potential new feature of enabling our users to (Read More)