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What Does it Mean When Social Media Companies Can’t Survive?

Direct Marketing Observations

With 12seconds.tv, I had used a dozen times or so and I could see an application or a place for it in the crowded world of social applications and services. Both companies had traffic and users, and both applications were free, but the problem was, they could not figure out how to make a living off of a social utility.

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Web 2.0 Expo – cool stuff seen on the floor of the show

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are a few companies in alphabetical order I thought had shown some real promise at the Web 2.0 They are the nexus of a digital marketing company mixed with a technology firm that does Microsoft CRM, Business Intelligence and Analytics to provide creative solutions for brand perception and instantiation.

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Next Generation Companies

Buzz Marketing for Technology

John Chambers CEO of Cisco's speech on Next Generation Companies at the World Business Forum Keep an eye on Market transitions – always be looking at what's going to happen in the next 18-24 months. Collaboration is nothing more than a group of people working toward a common goal – that's what Web 2.0 is all about.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Augmented Reality Applications Will Start to Go Mainstream. Most AR applications in 2009 were quaint curiosities designed to demonstrate the AR concept. A few AR applications have been rolled out by progressive marketers and other organizations this year, but 2010 will be the year AR explodes.

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload

Buzz Marketing for Technology

d post an article I originally published 10 years ago in the October 1997 issue of Company Director magazine. Information overload is a fact of life for company directors, senior managers, and all professionals. For now, I thought Iâ??d Everything I wrote is still completely valid. John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends.

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3 Ways to Analyze Facebook Fan Page Traffic «

The Marketing Blog

Moving beyond your website, the concept of analytics is also strongly applicable to your other online initiatives as well. Webtrends Facebook Analytics Using Facebook’s FBML application you can set up a custom tab which supports HTML language. The generated code can be placed inside Facebook pages using the FBML application.

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Changing Trends in Social Media Can Influence Your Business Model (part II)

Mindjumpers

Companies all over the world are now looking forward to improving their relationship with their customers with the help of social networking sites. Most often the company professionals maintain accounts for interacting with their customers. This helps their customers to know their company services better.

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