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Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500

Firebelly

This represents a six percent increase over the 2008 study. 86% of these blogs (93) link directly to a corporate twitter account, a 300% increase over the 2008 study. 35% (173) of the Fortune 500 have active Twitter accounts (a post within the past thirty days); and nearly 50% of the top 100 companies (47) have a Twitter account.

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Why Online Banking on Mobiles Will Soar

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Since 2008, consumers have been moving from brick-and-mortar banking to online banking at an impressive rate. What Bloomberg Businessweek and other critics fail to understand is that social media activity is not a proper way to measure whether members of Generation X and Y are accessing their bank accounts mostly online.

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Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

Reply Gagan December 16, 2008 at 8:43 am TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2008 Beating the slowdown blues Ever thought about spending a penny to save a Rupee. Not only Moneysaver, but other companies are also trying to utilize SMS, Bluetooth, mobile websites, to cost effectively reach customers. Have you been there before ?

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Burrp Delhi

The Marketing Blog

Log on to burrp Delhi and read the review and send the restaurant details to your uncle right on his phone using Burrp’s SMS feature. It’s about how that one thing fosters others to contribute, to agree or disagree, and how the collective wisdom and activity around it all helps people get smarter about stuff.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us frontpage. | BPWrap February 22, 2008 at 9:29 pm PR 2.0 I’d like to put in my $0.02

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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Be sure to turn off SMS alerts if you use these feeds since they will pile up.). I love gmail, it has become the center of my Internet activity. I am using Gmail to get SMS alerts for incoming messages, scraps in orkut, comment at my blog, Updated news with Google alerts. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

That is a little too brave new future for me though I admire you being on IM – I find that just as interrupting UNLESS I am actively collaborating. And when we had our little earthquake here a few years back, phone did not work tho SMS did! I hear that about 20 and 30 somethings frequently. Dollars and attention in the mix.

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