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Seven Social Media Insights on CES

Dave Fleet

Raise awareness ahead of the event. your blog, Twitter, Facebook etc) but also by mining your databases for people and companies that you want to connect with at the event and seeting-up meetings with them ahead of time. The world’s tech media, from traditional to hybrid to social, gather in Vegas for this event.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

For example, tools that used to be for elite athletes, like the Nike+ Fuelband , are now becoming ordinary things. For example, cellphone data was used to track the spread of cholera after the earthquake in Haiti. Young gave an example of where two separate data sets came together to become something ‘quite creepy’.

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5 Apps To Enhance Your Brand

Idaconcpts

DoubleDutch Events. It’s one of the top event apps that provide a platform for businesses to interact with their customers. For example, customers attending an event organized by a company can see virtual participation from company officials who are not physically present at the event. FourSquare.

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GLS Update: Americans are not checking in

Firebelly

Furthermore, five percent of cell owners use their phones to check in to locations using geosocial services (like Foursquare or Gowalla ). I recently convinced my boss to get on Foursquare for promotional reasons for her company, allowing us to add paperless promotions to events. Seeing these results shocked me a bit.

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Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

yMarketingMatters

Use the great hashtag feature to keep up with and be part of the latest trends and news worthy events. Foursquare. This is only for a business that hav a brick and motar location – a restaurant, hair salon, spa – are good examples. Twitter has proved its worth in recent years as a platform for breaking news.

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Carlsberg Launches Crowdit: A Non-Branded Mobile App

Mindjumpers

The app is called Crowdit and is a window to the city nightlife that lets people explore and discover places and events while connecting with friends to see where they are and what they are doing. In short, think of Crowdit as a Foursquare for nightlife. Crowdit – the remote control to your nightlife. Non-branded promotion.

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Eleven Digital Trends to Watch In 2011

SocialFish

Lots of orgs are, for example, talking to WordPress or other blog platforms about developing their blogs and talking to mobile app developers about their apps. Location, Location, Facebook – If 2010 belonged to solely Foursquare, it’s likely that Facebook will rain on their parade in 2011.

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