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Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500

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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. View an alternate.

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Youtube Tuesday: Lost Generation

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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. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

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Jake's Take: Facebook Hits The Big 5-0-0

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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? View an alternate.

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Jake's Take: Comcast Cares & You Can Too

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  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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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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Web Worker Daily " Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive "

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Burst : Use better ways to communicate when available including blogs, wikis, IM, chat rooms, SMS, and RSS. At the moment I am very busy with my Interim Marketing hat on, preparing a couple of direct marketing campaigns. Been busy : AccMan says: January 10th, 2008 8:49pm. [.] « says: January 16th, 2008 11:00am. [.]

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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After Google Voice and its third-party apps were turned down by Apple due to “it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc),&# Google built a completely browser-based app , avoiding the restrictions and not having to split the profits. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.