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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. Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted.

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The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. There is also a BBC World News America channel but its most recent video is from 2008.

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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. 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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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?

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Jake's Take: Comcast Cares & You Can Too

Firebelly

  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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So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com

Adam Sherk

million in April 2008 (source: Omniture). Keeping pace after an 80% reduction in staff is a good sign, although we don’t how well they monetized the April 2009 traffic compared to April 2008. In April, its first full month of operation, seattlepi.com had 4.3 million unique visitors, up 1.6% Total page views for the month were 37.3

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How to Be a Courageous Leader in the Post-Pandemic Era

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Amid the ever-unfolding coronavirus-driven challenges and during prior catastrophic events like the “dotcom crash” and the Great Financial Recession of 2008, Nicola has leaned on corporate ideology for sustenance. This as a courage of conviction, based on principles of an individual leader, a leadership team or the company at-large.

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