Article Archive for July 2009
Business Social Networking Made More Dynamic
w2meet.com offers a new approach to business social networking sites. Instead of being a mere space where users can convene and interact, the vision of the team behind it is to pair users based on key criteria. It can be said then, that it brings a more dynamic twist to the whole process as w2meet.com actively pushes members together based on common business interests rather than just leaving members to find each other. It also helps members who are active promote their businesses, and ... Read More
MaYoMo Social News Network Launches Beta
MaYoMo (Map Your Moments, www.mayomo.com), a powerful new social network for mobile citizen journalists and the most inspired alternative source for global, multimedia news content, today announced it has launched a new, improved beta version of its site. Unlike other sources of world news, MaYoMo delivers independent, global news content with Web 2.0 convenience and flexibility. It is designed for both journalists and independent-minded, socially and globally aware readers around the ... Read More
ClickZ to Host Social Media and Video Strategies Forum to Run Concurrently with SES San Jose
ClickZ Events, along with YouTube and Google, will sponsor a forum entitled Social Media and Video Strategies on August 11 at the San Jose Marriott, to run concurrently with the Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2009 conference. This ClickZ forum consists of six sessions and an opening keynote speech. It will focus on a series of individual online marketing successes and failures as experienced by a number of companies, celebrities, and politicians, allowing attendees to learn from the ... Read More
Vocus Social Media Webinar: Monitoring the Social Media Conversation — From Twitter to Facebook
Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) the market leader in online software for corporate communications, today announced it will host a free Webinar on “Monitoring the Social Media Conversation: From Twitter to Facebook.” The event will feature Jenni Lloyd, Social Media Strategist at the social media agency Nixon McInnes and Neil Stinchcombe, Managing Director, Eskenzi PR. The one-hour Webinar, aimed at a European audience, will be held on Tuesday, 21 July, 2009 beginning at 2:00 p.m. ... Read More
New Study Indicates Social Media Pays
A new study released today from Wetpaint and the Altimeter Group confirms that deep engagement with consumers through social media channels correlates to better financial performance. The ENGAGEMENTdb study (www.engagementdb.com) showed significant positive financial results for the companies who measured as having the greatest breadth and depth of social media engagement. These “Social Media Mavens” on average grew company revenues by 18 percent over the last 12 months, ... Read More
China Unicom chooses GyPSii for 3G Mobile Social Networking in China
GeoSentric Oyj (NASDAQ OMX: GEO1V), developers of the award-winning GyPSii mobile social networking application (www.gypsii.com), today announced its partnership with China Unicom’s Shanghai Unicom, to become the premier mobile social network solution for its new consumer 3G SNS Service, UniSpace. From today, more than 5 million Shanghai Unicom customers are able to download the GyPSii client directly on to their mobile device from the UniSpace website, http://space.uni-play.net. This ... Read More
Cooliris Partners With Infiniti to Launch Publisher Network
Cooliris, Inc. (www.cooliris.com) today announced the Cooliris Publisher Network, a brand new way of online advertising that launched in conjunction with the Infiniti G Convertible ad campaign. The campaign is being run across multiple sites including Yahoo! News, Golf.com, the New York Magazine, and Style.com. Teaming up with OMD, media giant and agency of record for Infiniti, Cooliris has created an innovative solution that allows publishers to present rich media advertising on a ... Read More
PopSoc.com Announces Beta Release of its Social Media Classified Ads Platform
PopSoc is the creation of Alan Sherin, a digital marketer since 1995 who has witnessed the online explosion of social networks and realized there may be an audience out there who wants to take advantage of getting the exposure out in the social web, but either were leery, did not understand how to do it, or did not have the time to join and manage an online profile, yet still wanted to reach the millions of eyeballs participating in these networks daily. Enter PopSoc Social Media ... Read More
WIN Plc Pioneer Twitter Update via SMS Service
WIN plc, a leading provider of interactive mobile entertainment and information services, today announced that its Enterprise Platform is the first to offer text message to ‘Tweet’ conversion. Organisations using the WIN platform will now be able to offer customers the choice of texting a ‘Tweet’. This ‘Tweet’ which will be automatically posted to one or more Twitter feeds in addition to other mediums of choice. The Twitter feed will therefore provide a point of interaction ... Read More
Social media monitoring and analytics comes of age with Alterian’s acquisition of Techrigy
Businesses now have a uniquely powerful marketing platform available to them thanks to today’s announcement that Alterian (LSE: ALN) a leading international integrated marketing platform provider, has acquired Techrigy Inc., a global leader in social media monitoring and analytics software. This acquisition follows another successful year for Alterian, with a 73% increase in revenue reported for the financial year to 31 March 2009. Alterian’s acquisition of Techrigy enables a ... Read More
