companies now use social media for marketing (though the figure varies widely based on size of company)? Get the details behind these stats and many, many more here in more than 40 of the best articles and blog posts about social media, search, budgeting and digital marketing research, facts and statistics of 2011 so far. companies now use social media for marketing. ” And 93% planned to use some form of user-generated content in their marketing efforts this year, including customer stories, product suggestions or ideas, and customer reviews. And 73% of U.S. MORE >>

Similarly, I refused to get a broadband connection at home until 2004, when over 50 percent of Americans used broadband at home. He is charged with helping clients identify emerging technologies and trends that can be applied in marketing communications programs. Steve is using Posterous to post everything online. Shouldnt you? Steve Rubel owns this site 5,034 subscribers The Steve Rubel Stream 24 Jul 2009 Quotable: On Staying in Sync with Change "Mayer’s job is to be in sync with change. She carries an iPhone to have a non-Google product to better simulate the user. MORE >>

have been pretty much 100% Mac OS since 2004 and on laptops since 1996. He is charged with helping clients identify emerging technologies and trends that can be applied in marketing communications programs. Steve is using Posterous to post everything online. Shouldnt you? Steve Rubel owns this site 5,034 subscribers The Steve Rubel Stream 22 Jul 2009 Conversation of the Day: Are We Becoming OS Agnostic? Heres an interesting thread from my Friendfeed page. For the first time in over a decade I am using a desktop at work - and Im back on WIndows. How about you? If feel the same. MORE >>

In 2004, I stepped into the blogosphere with Diva Marketing and soon after began developing workshops for the American Marketing Association on a national and local chapter level. Blogs must be integrated into your marketing strategy to be effective: goals, objectives. Marketing Beyond The Blog Buzz. Adding one more responsibility to an over flowing plate of marketing "stuff to do" is overwhelming. Of course I was honored by their requests. wondered how different my point of view about blogs was back in the day versus today. MORE >>

Part 2: Just maybe market capitalism is being transformed into social capitalism and the value of money will take on a new meaning. Since 2004 Mr. Deragon has been actively studying, sharing and learning how business as unusual is changing business methods, models and relationships. Ever wonder about the future of capitalism? Where is all the money going and does all this money create future value? The global conversations have become consumed with the possible outcomes of all this debt everyone everywhere is incurring. Then what? Part 1. What say you? MORE >>