Net-Savvy Executive

APRIL 1, 2011

The first report in the space was Peter Kim's Forrester Wave: Brand Monitoring (September 2006), which introduced us to seven companies: Biz360 Acquired by Attensity in 2010. Cymfony Acquired in 2007 by TNS, which was acquired by WPP in 2008. Power & Associates in 2008. Cymfony is now part of WPP's Kantar Media.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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. The study’s key findings include: 22% (108) of the primary corporations listed in the 2009 Fortune 500 have a public-facing corporate blog.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 26, 2010

In February 2008,after receiving over 50 video entries, the AARP announced WhenI’m 50 as the winning video. The grand prize was $5,000. It contains students sharing their thoughts on what they think theyll be like when they are 50years old - their hopes,dreams, and aspirations.

YouTube 143

YouTube Paid Search SMS Syndication 143

Firebelly

JULY 23, 2010

Nobody expected it to even overtake social-networking giant MySpace,as it did in 2008, and eventually have more users than the USA has citizens. Mark Zuckerburg launched Facebook in 2004 for his friendsand classmates at Harvard University, then continued to branch it out to otherschools. So how did this happen?

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Facebook MySpace Paid Search SMS 113

Firebelly

MAY 27, 2010

  Comcast’s Frank Eliason started using Twitter to respond to customers in 2008. Many companies are hiring people specifically to track these comments and respond appropriately.It A BusinessWeek article  published in 2009 chronicles Eliason’s day at the company - reading and responding to the disgruntled customers on Twitter.

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Paid Search SMS Syndication Social Bookmarking 100

Firebelly

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

1 spot to Google in February 2008, and now sits in third place, according to Web analytics research by Compete. Facebook Outpaces Yahoo to Become No. 2 Site on Web By Jon Brodkin Facebook is now the second most popular Web site in the United States, passing Yahoo with 133 million unique visitors in January, according to new research.

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Yahoo Facebook MySpace Paid Search 100

Keyhole.co

JULY 9, 2023

Back in 2008, squandering off an online presence was a luxury. We bet whenever the social media management topic arises, Hootsuite is the first name that pops up. It is a legacy platform that was one of the first to cater to the ever-changing social media dynamics. Only enterprises had the money and bandwidth to do so.

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