Facebook and Twitter are seeing a big increase in the number of people who access their web sites through mobile phones. According to data released by comScore Facebook saw a 112% increase in mobile users during January 2010 compared to January 2009. 25.1 million people accessed Facebook via a mobile browser. Twitter also saw a [...]

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A recent survey by Alterian of 1068 marketing professionals worldwide concluded that 66% of those surveyed intend on investing in social media in 2010. This makes me wonder what channels they intend on marketing through. Will the focus be on twitter? facebook? myspace? a blog? or something new in 2010?
We saw a huge shift in [...]

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Imagine a time before social media ruled the world, before you were updated with a never ending feed of Facebook and Twitter updates from your friends, before you posted those glittery Myspace comments, before you accidentally sent those embarrassing photos to people at work because you didn’t know how to use email… OK maybe not [...]

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2009 has been the year of Twitter, and really many other forms of social media. 2010 is set to be just as big for social media, if not bigger. Up until a few weeks ago our Facebook news feeds and those beloved tweets were pretty much limited to our computers and mobile phones. Now, though, [...]

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A long, long time ago, before social media took over the planet, people would make call after call during the holiday season. Stressing, wondering, and stressing some more. Now, with the power of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, holiday shoppers can skip the phone calls and look online to find out what their [...]

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Its really amazing how different we live our lives today compared to 10 years ago. Looking back, who really could have predicted this?
Social Media has had a profound impact on our lives. In his article on Mashable Soren Gordhamer does a great job looking at 5 of the ways it has changed how we live.
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Paula Berg, director of emerging technologies for Southwest Airlines, was the keynote speaker at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater/Comet Branding Social Media Summit Wednesday. More than 20 social media strategists and public relations professionals, including Berg, shared insights on how their companies are using Twitter, blogs, Facebook and other social media tactics to reach their strategic public [...]

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According to data from Internet measurement firm Hitwise, MySpace.com still leads in the United States for average time spent by users on a social networking site per day.  Although it only leads on average by 2 minutes and 56 seconds over Facebook’s 23 minutes, it’s still shocking to hear. I guess MySpace fans are pretty [...]

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