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Use of Social Media to Inspiration for All Businesses

Mindjumpers

Tweet Laurel Moffat , who is a Communication Specialist at Southwest Airlines, has made a presentation about the company’s successful social media strategy at a January 25 Kansas City American Marketing Association lunch event. However, when running a smaller company, it is of course not as comprehensive.

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The Worst Malware Ever (and What It Teaches Us About Malware of the Future)

The Realtime Report

Though some systems were able to recover in a comparable timeframe, others remained out of service for much longer; for instance, Bank of America’s ATMs and Continental Airlines communications systems were both rendered useless. Within 15 minutes of being released into the wild, SQL Slammer essentially crashed the internet.

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Be Here Now Marketing: How United Airlines Can Take Advantage of.

Bare Feet Studios

Here’s a real life example with several free ideas I have for United Airlines , or any airline really. How over-booked are the airlines to not have a few extra seats across several flights to two different destinations? UA was willing to rebook us on American Airlines, for a flight at 8 p.m.

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Social Media and Travel

Social Media Marketing

The Airlines To my knowledge, Southwest was the first airline (or at least the most prominent early on) to get involved with social media. JetBlue made a name for itself in the social media space after a difficult travel situation thanks to severe winter weather in 2007. That finger wag gets me every time.

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The Worst Malware Ever (and What It Teaches Us About Malware of the Future)

The Realtime Report

Though some systems were able to recover in a comparable timeframe, others remained out of service for much longer; for instance, Bank of America’s ATMs and Continental Airlines communications systems were both rendered useless. Within 15 minutes of being released into the wild, SQL Slammer essentially crashed the internet.

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StartupNation Blog " Blog Archive " Learn how to draw out your vision

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In The Back of the Napkin , Roam shows the actual drawing made on the back of a napkin by the founders of Southwest Airlines to illustrate their concept for a new airline that would become one of the great success stories of airline history (did someone say, Ding!?). January 2008 (2). (+) 2007 (280) December 2007 (8).

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Reputation Management with Dissatisfied Customers and Word of.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are three cases that were blown way out of proportion but could have been handled a lot better if the companies thought of the consequences before acting. There’s a bottom line: it’s a lot harder to sweep your mistakes under the rug, especially as a company in a world of conversing markets.