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NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. In my post on news sites on the new Digg I noted that NBC has created a series of city-specific profiles to target local markets. Will it work with local news? NBC is trying to find out.

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Digg Marketing News Press Release

Google Analytics Unveils a Set of Social Reports

Mindjumpers

MARCH 22, 2012

Therefore, Google has recently released a new set of Social Reports within Google Analytics. The new Social Reports will be available from a new “social” tab, when you log in to Google Analytics. The State of Social Media Marketing– Annual Survey Report.

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Analytics Report Google Disqus

Pew Research Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks.

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.

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Survey Social Networking Engineering Research

News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Digg Sites News Activities

Survey: Third of Companies Use Social Media to Promote Their Business

Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 18, 2010

According to a brand new survey by CareerBuilder , one-quarter of businesses leverage social media to recruit and research possible staff. A brand new CareerBuilder survey reports that 35 % of employers use social media to market their company. Survey Methodology. This survey was conducted online within the U.S.

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Survey Company Social Media Sample

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure! Social Media Analytics

Harp Interactive

MARCH 31, 2010

Social media sharing / participation (activity on key social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc). Here are some tools to measure these with: Google Analytics: (Set up advanced segments, events and reporting) to get key visitor, referral and viewership statistics. Invite / Refer (a friend). Facebook Wall Interaction.

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Analytics Social Media Trendrr Digg

PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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Study News Press Release Report

Survey Shows Marketing Budgets to Increase Spend in Social Media, Search Engine Marketing in 2011

Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2010

An annual marketing budget survey of business-to-business marketing trends released today is showing that marketing departments are going to increase their budget in Social Media and in Search Engine Marketing in 2011. The study was conducted jointly by Goldstein Group Communications and Hearst Business Media. these areas would hold steady.

Engineering

Engineering Survey Social Media Marketing

How Marketers are Using Social Media for Business: New Report

Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 27, 2010

Whatever questions you may have about social media marketing, you’ll probably find the answers in the 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report from white paper guru Michael Stelzner. The report notes that “the question of whether social media works has dropped off the charts completely.&# The Biggest Question.

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Report Social Media B2B Newsvine

Gleanster Market Research Report on Social Media Marketing

Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The “Gleansight&# benchmark reports include an analysis of all the related technology solution providers. You can actually download the reports for free after you register for the service. Reports are provided in PDF, Adobe Acrobat, format. Well, almost. And, before downloading, you must agree to their terms.

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Research Report Cymfony Social Media

Report: Two Thirds of Small Businesses Plan to Increase Email and Social Media Marketing Spend in 2010

Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

VerticalResponse recently did a survey to find out how small businesses planned on spending their marketing dollars in 2010. Over 800 small businesses were surveyed, each business having less than 500 employees. From the survey, 74.1% of the survey participants are planning on increasing their use of email marketing while 68.3%

Small Business

Small Business Report Social Media Survey

Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search.

Hitwise

Hitwise News Report Press Release

Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search.

Hitwise

Hitwise News Report Press Release

StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

Participation, budgets and timing varies greatly for the sites in this group and I am not able to segment that in the reported data. I should emphasize that these results represent the experiences of the specific sites in the surveyed group and not necessarily other sites that cover similar topics.

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StumbleUpon Sites Content Survey

Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

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Social Media Press Release Microblogging Survey

Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter. Side note: Hitwise, you’re overdue for an updated version of that report!).

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Hitwise Social Media Digg Survey

Study: Facebook Fan Pages are Great Marketing Tool for Businesses

Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The research, based on surveys of more than 1,700 respondents over a 3 month period, found that compared with typical Dessert Gallery customers, the Facebook fans: · Spent 33 percent more at DG’s stores. · Related posts: Study Proves Facebook and Digg Visitors More Loyal; Twitter in Last Place Are you a loyal visitor? Tweet This!

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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 1, 2010

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. You can download the executive summary for free (or pay $400 for the full report ). Again, you can download the free executive summary or purchase the full report to get all the details. That leaves only 20% of the market left to fight over. Tweet This!

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Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets by Adam Sherk on December 17, 2009 This week both Brian Solis and SEOMoz made reference to a recent Forrester report forecasting US interactive marketing budgets for the next five years.

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Social Media Marketing Press Release Survey

The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In my ongoing look at mainstream media outlets and social media I have done multiple posts on news sites and Twitter, Facebook and Digg but I’ve yet to look at YouTube. But since the 21,839 subscribers reported in YouTube’s search results make it a top 5 news channel I included it in the table. that does include some news videos.

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Sites News YouTube Press Release

Time Spent Online Matches Time Spent Watching TV

Idaconcpts

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Forrester’s survey does show a significant increase in the number of people using the Internet to watch streaming video,” the New York Times’ BitsBlog ’ reports, with “33 percent of adults surveyed [saying] they use the Internet to watch video, up from 18 percent in 2007.”. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Survey Technorati StumbleUpon Digg

Blubrry - For Immediate Release - For Immediate Release: 03/03/08

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A podcast series focused on online PR and communication, anchored by the twice-weekly "Hobson & Holtz Report." Fords social media initiative in Canada; two social media surveys; Lee Hopkins reports; listeners comments discussion; and more. Add to Digg. " Visit. Podcasts Home Page. Archived Post.

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Mzinga Digg Survey RSS

Why Online Banking on Mobiles Will Soar

Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

According to a survey commissioned by identity protection services firm Kindsight, nearly two-thirds of respondents worried that banking, credit card or other personal info could be stolen from their computers. According to an August 2009 survey of US consumers by the American Bankers Association (ABA), online is now the No.

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Banking Mobile SMS Technorati

Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Unfortunately there are increasing reports of donation fraud online, so major news organizations are playing a vital role in directing people to credible, legitimate groups. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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News Sites Digg Press Release

Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This is not surprising based on the reactions that Fox News reporting tends to generate from both sides of the political fence. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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News Google Hitwise Press Release

Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

A more recent study reported by Forbes stated that while “60% (of small businesses surveyed) credit social media with positively impacting their businesses…(only) 36% have attracted new business as a result of their social media efforts.&#. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook.

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Social Media Research ROI Technorati

An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

The Huffington Post The Huffington Post has added a “Hot on Facebook” module to its home page and in a sidebar on posts: I like this and think it will do a good job of encouraging user clicks, similar to the Digg widget that has worked well on news sites. Seeing that stories have been liked thousands of times certainly caught my interest.

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News Module Widget Facebook

Social Media is Affecting Our Communication Patterns Online

Proactive Report

AUGUST 25, 2010

A new survey from Nielsen set out to show that as people use social media they use email less – and surprise! Social media websites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Digg, and others have realized that you can’t make someone visit your site. it came out completely the other way around. Intuitively this makes some sense.

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Patterns Social Media Nielsen Syndication

Bing Search Engine Losing Users Fast

Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Here are some stats released in Chitika’s report: Search Share: Impressions August September October Google 81.80% 84.19% 84.99% Yahoo! Study Proves Facebook and Digg Visitors More Loyal; Twitter in Last Place Are you a loyal visitor? Over 8% of search engine users and 6.7% of search traffic came from Bing in August 2009.

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Engineering comScore Microsoft Yahoo

Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

It’s simply no longer profitable for companies to report “news.” Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! I’ve been through the book and it’s a good read; for more information check out GoogleyLessons.com.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

A realtime social search engine that pulls current and recent results for any term from Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg and Delicious. Lithium also includes response assignment and reporting tools. sweepstakes, contests and surveys) and publish them to multiple social networks and their own website. Other Cool Web Tools.

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Tools Social Media Lithium Sysomos

AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! If news organizations can’t stay in business, they won’t be playing any role at all. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Hitwise

Hitwise Press Release Adsense Syndication

Smart Move from Condé Nast: GQ and DETAILS Should Have Their Own.

Adam Sherk

JULY 22, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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Press Release Syndication Blogroll Consultant

MashedIn Social Media Friend Finder Application Launched

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 28, 2010

Report: Two Thirds of Small Businesses Plan to Increase Email and Social Media Marketing Spend in 2010 VerticalResponse recently did a survey to find out how small. Social Connections is a wholly owned subsidiary of VendAsta Technologies, which raised $3 million in the summer of 2008. Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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News Hitwise Press Release Syndication

Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

News

News Hitwise Press Release Syndication

5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 25, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Build for the future – Slow seasons are a good time to make improvements to site architecture, update page templates and engage in various forms of testing on the site.

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Engineering Hitwise Health Care Press Release

An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

To reporters’ sources? If we’re truly in an era of open-source journalism, I say reporters share their access (sort of) to sources via Twitter lists. This isn’t to say the sources will RESPOND, but it’s an interesting way of opening one’s reporter notebook to a willing audience.

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News List Twitter Sites

A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

reports from its search page are not very complete or accurate (you get better data on URLs you’ve personally shortened in your history when signed into bit.ly). Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

Hitwise

Hitwise Press Release Syndication Blogroll

JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate.

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Prior to the start of the sweepstakes in early July the JVC page reportedly had about 1,000 fans. As of today it has 36,782 fans. And many fans are coming back regularly.

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RFI Guidelines Facebook Press Release

Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and.

Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1% by Adam Sherk on March 2, 2010 For my presentation on Twitter Marketing Tactics at SMX West this week I wanted to get a sense of just how much traffic Twitter is driving to major news sites.

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Survey Twitter Digg Hitwise

Intranet Blog :: E-mail fatigue

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 28, 2008

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reports that as much as 75 percent of most companiesâ?? The study culminates a great deal of analysis including a survey of more than 1000 e-mail managers (mostly IT managers and executives, and records and document management specialists). Digg this Post to del.icio.us Intranet Report.

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Sharepoint Wiki Web 2.0 Class

NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Google Analytics Unveils a Set of Social Reports

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Pew Research Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks.

News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Survey: Third of Companies Use Social Media to Promote Their Business

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure! Social Media Analytics

PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

Survey Shows Marketing Budgets to Increase Spend in Social Media, Search Engine Marketing in 2011

How Marketers are Using Social Media for Business: New Report

Gleanster Market Research Report on Social Media Marketing

Report: Two Thirds of Small Businesses Plan to Increase Email and Social Media Marketing Spend in 2010

Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Study: Facebook Fan Pages are Great Marketing Tool for Businesses

2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets

The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

Time Spent Online Matches Time Spent Watching TV

Blubrry - For Immediate Release - For Immediate Release: 03/03/08

Why Online Banking on Mobiles Will Soar

Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate

Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google

Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Social Media is Affecting Our Communication Patterns Online

Bing Search Engine Losing Users Fast

Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Smart Move from Condé Nast: GQ and DETAILS Should Have Their Own.

MashedIn Social Media Friend Finder Application Launched

Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction

A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com

JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate.

Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and.

Intranet Blog :: E-mail fatigue

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