article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Words That Totally Make My Head Hurt | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

Now, we do have spell-check and it is embedded is most of the applications we use everyday – email, smartphones and social networking sites. Character counts: When we’re using Twitter or SMS text messages, we are limited to a certain number of characters and this tends to lead to a lot of creativity.

Lijit 160
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Youtube Tuesday: Lost Generation

Firebelly

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
article thumbnail

Top 1000 Favorite Blogging Links of 2008

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Top 1000 Favorite Blogging Links of 2008 I do a lot of surfing. I have been using StumbleUpon as my social bookmarking tool this year and I wanted to share with you all of my favorite links from the past year broken into categories. OGyHoy7lbcag2mj8fmcT4G5m_500.jpg

article thumbnail

Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under BarCamp Tags: BarCamp , BarCamp Delhi , BCD5 , delhi , Google , open source , Social media , startup , twitter 5 Comments Sesso January 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm Great site. Reply daksh November 12, 2008 at 1:34 am Hi Becky and Lolly, so great to hear from you.

Startup 109
article thumbnail

Why Online Banking on Mobiles Will Soar

Idaconcpts

Since 2008, consumers have been moving from brick-and-mortar banking to online banking at an impressive rate. Consider this: There may be reporting on the demise of e-mail due to the rise of social media, however college students still see e-mail and SMS as critical mediums for online communication.

Banking 137
article thumbnail

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

Firebelly

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?

Facebook 113