Article Archive for September 2009
Social Networking, New Tool for Real Estate Investors
This week on Get Real, The Real Estate Investing Show for the Rest of Us, the spotlight was turned to one of the hottest topics in popular culture, social networking. Twitter and Facebook have quickly become common lexicons in conversations throughout the US. With the explosion in their usage many businesses have found it hard to ignore the potential that lies in these online giants. Hosts Judson Voss and Allison McArthur shared tips for real estate investors to increase their ... Read More
Twitter Integration with wiTweet
Sterizon LLC, a leading wireless data collection and direct marketing solution provider, pleased to announce the release of its Social Media Marketing product wiTweet. wiTweet enables businesses to tap into Social Media Marketing by getting their customers to follow the business on Twitter. Customer’s signup to follow the business on Twitter using Sterizon’s flagship product Sterizon wiZit – a portable, wireless, handheld WiFi device while they are at the place of business. ... Read More
Traffic Study: Search Vs. Social
Online ad network Chitika this week broke down over 123 million impressions across their 60,000+ publisher network and determined that the overwhelming dominance of search engines is facing little, if any, threat from social networks. Despite predictions that social media will replace search engines as Internet users’ primary method of finding information online, a breakdown of the numbers shows that isn’t the case. For charts and supporting data visit: ... Read More
GoldenNetworking.com Celebrated Anniversary at China Happy Hou
GoldenNetworking.com celebrated its nine-month anniversary in style, with the participation of Chinese executives, businessmen, professionals and entrepreneurs, during its first ever China Happy Hour, past Monday, at Johnny Utah’s. Pictures of this reception (and many others) can be found on GoldenNetworking.com’s website. China Happy Hour attracted professionals from companies as diverse as Apparel Resources, Buckingham Hotel, Carriage Hill Partners, Deutsche Bank, GMAC Real ... Read More
TV Blogging Application and Music Service with NDS MediaHighway®
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that DEN (DEN Networks Limited), a leading Indian digital cable TV operator, has launched two innovative services on the NDS MediaHighway® platform. DEN has recently launched an interactive TV micro blogging application, Blog.telly, after the launch of its 24×7 music service in January of this year. In partnership with NDS, DEN is delivering an appealing and ever-increasing combination of ... Read More
Social Media for DoD & Government Revolutionizes Communication with Citizen-Soldiers
Businesses are scrambling to find the best way to utilize social media, while the United States federal government and DoD has been a leader in implementing social media initiatives. “New and emerging social media and Web 2.0 tools are revolutionizing the way we communicate with our Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen, their families, and the American people. These tools allow deployed forces to maintain close contact with loved ones, allow our recruiters to more easily reach their ... Read More
Accessing Social Media While Driving is Twice as Prevalent among Twitter Users
With Twitter being accessed from mobile devices to a greater extent than other social media, Twitter users also use social media more in such locations as cars, restaurants and restrooms, according to a survey conducted by Crowd Science (www.crowdscience.com) with its advanced research platform for online audience measurement. One-in-ten Twitter users (11%) admitted to accessing social media while driving during the preceding 30 days, compared with just 5% of other social media users. ... Read More
Orbius Launches Social Website Platform
Orbius, Inc today announced the launch of Version 3 of its white label social website platform for small to mid-sized organizations. The Software as a Service (SaaS) based platform enables non-technical community managers to create, update, manage and govern organization and user content on an intuitive, fully hosted, ‘drag and drop’ Web 2.0 environment. Orbius removes the risk of launching a branded social network by providing governance capability not found in public social ... Read More
Twitter – The New Mathematics
The following comments were delivered today by Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande, dean of Webster University’s School of Business & Technology, to introduce Twitter creator, co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey as the University’s “Success to Significance 2009 Person of the Year.” The event was presented by Webster’s School of Communications and School of Business & Technology. My favorite equation in mathematics is the original equation, one from which all ... Read More
TypePad Announces Integration With FreshBooks
TypePad (http://www.typepad.com), the premier blogging service, today announced an integration with the popular invoicing service, FreshBooks (http://freshbooks.com). The integration allows TypePad small business owners to take customer orders directly from their blog and automatically create FreshBooks estimates and invoices. The integration is powered by FormSpring (http://formspring.com), an online data collection and management application. FormSpring empowers customers to build ... Read More
