Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Outstanding research from Tom Webster that debunks some common myths about social media. This point was driven home in The Social Habit II, a new report from Edison Research and Arbitron that follows up on their landmark study in 2010 (and their 19th study about the Internet overall). (Happy Holidays! This is #2. – Jay).

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Social Media MySpace Statistics Social Networking 166

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 10, 2012

UK Twitter statistics: Twitter has shown explosive growth this year, with the number of reported users more than doubling from 12 million to 26 million. Tumblr is another platform to watch, with major growth during 2011 and Nielson’s third quarter report putting it at #2 in the UK by page views. The losers.

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Social Media Statistics MySpace Tumblr 273

Twist Image

JUNE 24, 2013

This daily e-newsletter is filled with tons of free articles and insights on the bleeding edge of research. Warning: you can get lost in these articles and research reports. Jason Hirschhorn is the former co-president of MySpace. This is one of those "it''s hard to believe that it''s free," ones. almost timely.

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MySpace Marketing Digg Education 110

Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

19% of the 2009 Fortune 500 is podcasting, a three percent increase over the 2008 study 31% are incorporating online video into their blog sites, a 10% increase over 2008 A full copy of the 17 page report can be downloaded on the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth website.

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Social Media Twitter Paid Search Study 165

Buffer Social

JUNE 30, 2017

My first profile was on Myspace , my first friend was “Tom from Myspace,” and my first post was something like, “Myspace is awesome!” Since 2014, largely due to social media, the ALS Association has raised more than $115 million for research towards Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

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Buffer Social

MAY 12, 2016

And they found that though networks like Friendster and Myspace had tens, and eventually, hundreds, of millions of registered users the bonds between users weren’t particularly strong. Hopefully avoiding the same pitfalls that Friendster and Myspace fell into as they scaled. Why social networks need to change.

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Firebelly

MARCH 2, 2010

Afterthe data is collected it’s written down to provide the statistics needed forthe research, such as a case report or field study. Based on this research,the statistics were made for this video. Ethnography in itself is the method used forgathering data within a society. What is it like being a student today?”

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Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It’s not unusual for a modern internet junkie to have thousands of friends on FaceBook, hundreds of followers on Twitter, and a heap of additional connections on MySpace, Flicker, and many of the other social networking sites. . #1 – Social networking. 4 – Let your skills shine. 5 – Check the stock market.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

It was recently reported that there are over 50 million updates posted to Twitter every day. As for the business purpose of real time searches, all of this information can certainly be used to benefit a marketing or research project. This is a new type of search, one which gives you a window into the public’s thoughts – in real time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

If the post does not allow commenting, send a relevant press release to the editorial team showing that you have done your research and understand what the blog is looking for. If you can find a reporter’s blog, you’ve just struck gold because that blog will include hundreds of clues about topics the reporter things are important.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off) By Gina Trapani Googles new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Econsultancy’s 2010 Social Media and Online PR Report indicates that 83% of marketers are planning to increase their spending on social media this year, yet only 26% plan to run campaigns in more than one country. Which networks to choose? You can then adapt your English social media marketing campaigns for each language and network.

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Proactive Report

MARCH 19, 2010

According to an analysis of social sites by online advertising network Chikita published by Mashable, people go to Twitter for news, MySpace for games and entertainment, Facebook for news and community and digg has a mixed bag. Tags: Research dig facebook online PR traffic twitter. Digg came in second place with slightly over 16%.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Organizations have used it for developing programs, marketing efforts, research, and education. This is great for sharing code, developing a web site, or for storing research findings. This is great because it helps everyone be the teacher and the student, so there is an increase sense of education that is a plus for everyone involved.

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Stay N' Alive

MARCH 21, 2011

Having written 3 books on Facebook and Facebook technologies, having written an entire site devoted to helping improve a brand's reputation on Twitter, MySpace (and soon Facebook), and having consulted in helping brands, big and small across the web to integrate "social" technologies, I think I can really help in this effort.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Brand Interaction is a Major Part of Life on Twitter In addition to following brands, Twitter users research and engage with companies. 19% seek customer support.

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Social Media Statistics Strategy Research 159

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Report on Business. Mr. Rudnick researched the options, but still wasn?t MySpace: One of the earliest social networking sites, MySpace was launched in 2003 and acquired in 2005 by News Corp. based Info-Tech Research Group, says a presence on networks like LinkedIn and Facebook is becoming ?table Login or Register.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 26, 2010

NYSE: NWS) (MySpace ). Matt Drudge, Founder, Drudge Report. David Yach, CTO, Software, Research In Motion Ltd. Here is the list of the top 100 most innovative and influential people in the Web 2.0 World: 1) Social Networking. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook. Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg. Philip Rosedale, Founder, Second Life.

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Web 2.0 comScore Microsoft Yahoo 161

Firebelly

JANUARY 29, 2010

Report: Facebooks Twitterfication May Have Stunted Twitter Growth By Bilal Hameed RJ Metrics research analysis has stopped short of pinpointing the reasons behind the gradual decline in activity over at Twitter. However, we believe that one of the major reasons for this decline is Facebook’s gradual Twitterfication.

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Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. There’s actually research going back to the 1950s. Ignite was founded in 2007, Carusele was founded in 2015, and that’s just been such a long time.

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2015

The next time you’re brainstorming blog topics for your upcoming content cycle, try researching the topic you’re interested in via the BuzzSumo platform to see what other bloggers and content influencers have to say about it. Through BuzzSumo Pro you can access its Content Analysis Reports. Vimeo, Instagram, ping.fm

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The office has done this by enlisting the public in its review of progress reports from more than 2,000 companies--an effort to make sure each is complying with established social and environmental guidelines. a sort of business MySpace. information-sharing source that allows them to merge research and intelligence gathering.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

As I was leaving that brand we looked at sizing the amount of conversation (hard activity), but the best research we had indicated over 2 Billion conversations about product, service and brand. Online Community Report. Had someone shown up and said “join the convo,&# I would have thrown them out. Go join that! Josh: Good point.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

As a PI, I researched trademarks and products that may have had conflicting names with existing trademarks and I reported on the findings. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

As I had been doing a lot of research on social networking, the department head and myself came up with a course named New Communication Technologies in Organizational Life. Take, for example, the old multi page books of data reports on personnel, sales, or accounts receivable/payable reports. Creating a Research Agenda.

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Wiki Class Web 2.0 Skills 113

Jeff Esposito

APRIL 11, 2011

As the Assistant Director of Social Media at the Jimmy Fund, I’m constantly keeping my eye out for new interesting ways to spread awareness of the Jimmy Fund’s mission, to grow our online community, and of course, for new ways to raise additional funds for cancer care and research. That of course can be a good or bad thing.

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Social Media Smart Phone MySpace Google Reader 50

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With Facebook’s track record, I knew that, and I kind of respect that given the volume of junk reports they likely get that are answered in Facebook’s help documents. I loved FB because it wasn’t myspace and wasn’t full of junk, spam and porn and when it opened to everyone, i was afraid it would become just like that.

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Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277

Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric Boss & DJ Waldow’s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Wall Street Journal reports more people are turning to YouTube as their news source). DJ Waldow: My Digg strategy is similar to my MySpace strategy, it sort of goes hand-in-hand. MySpace had ad revenue goals around it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Artificial intelligence : he’s a bit skeptical of the immediate jump from the Flintstones to the Jetsons I think these are all potential branches for search to take, though the first item about human powered search (or, more appropriately called “human powered research&# ) was interesting to me. Check out my Flickr photostream.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Simply stated, you can upload a profile picture (200 by 600 pixels maximum, though there are some reports that 180 by 540 pixels might work instead) and start filling out the relevant details about your business. Take MySpace as just one of many examples of an online property that become too comfortable with its “space.&#

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. At first glance it appears that StumbleUpon holds the upper hand, with a lower bounce reported on both Online Marketing Banter and Van SEO Design. Good research, as always!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Bloggers might be well served to understand that if I approach someone in the professional mainstream media with a story idea, there is no way that any self-respecting reporter would ever respond by trying to refer me to the advertising sales rep. Of course, if you had done your research, you would have known that.

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Blogger Press Release Advertising Review 177

Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 29, 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010 The Social Media Strategist Develop comprehensive social media strategy, leveraging the major social networks (LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace), blogs, video, stand-alone social newtorks, social commerce and more.

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Social Media Widget Reputation Disqus 50

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

the sources below provide a vast wealth of data, statistics and research results, as well as a bit of interesting social media trivia. Discover the answers to all of these questions and more here in more than 40 of the best resources for social media and marketing stats, facts and research of the past year. Find out in this report.

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Research Social Media B2B Marketing 210

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. The Online Consumer Engagement Value report idea is a good one. SEOmoz has looked at what works and reported on their findings. What must you do next?

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Or will they overthrow the computational and communicational status quo with MySpace, MyBlog, and MyWiki?â?? EIU Report. John will be joined by Chuck Richard, Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, a leading industry research firm serving publishers and information providers. Dalhousie University. Data Management.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 8, 2012

In fact, your category labels should come from your SEO keyword research. In a 2009 Google study , it was reported that a 0.5 More recently, Google has reported that slowing down search results by as little as 400 milliseconds will actually increase dropped searches from 0.2% Talk about distracting! .

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