Raise your hand if you have either a Facebook profile, a Twitter handle, a LinkedIn account or if you just got an invitaion on Google Plus, and you accessed any of them, at least once, from work. Does your company have a company policy regarding social networking? It seems only 55% percent of the companies…
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It seems Google+ and Facebook have started some sort of “cold war”, with Google preventing a former employee (now with Facebook) to add more people to his circles, and Facebook blocking Google+ ads on its social network, while media and social media experts start showing their preference by publishing either too positive or too negative…
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There’s no day you open a news website or a printed newspaper and you do not find any article about social media or social networks. And increasingly, there are no talks with friends where you don’t mention the word “Facebook”, whether it’s about an event, a birthday or a photo album or some other gossip…
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While waiting for Google+ business pages (and not only) to be officially open (after they let some brands get in, then blocked them, then re-opened again), I thought it was good to have a look at what happened with Facebook’s most famous fan pages.Especially since we all know this “social networks battle” is not just…
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I have been playing with Google Plus for about a week and read many comments and discussions about it. I also posted some comments myself. I believe there are a few reasons why Google+ may fail, and I am really concerned about privacy: 1- Google Plus’ beta testing is lasting for too long. Invites do…
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As you will recall, at the beginning of last week, while Google was creating the buzz around its forthcoming Google+, Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was going to announce something awesome next week. Mashable, one of the most followed news portals around new tech and social media, yesterday announced the “awesome” news was about the integration…
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Taking advantage of the LinkedOut situation this morning (LinkedIn returned a 500 error), I managed to spend some time on Google+. The move about having users being able to get on G+ only by invitation it’s surely been a nice marketing move. And the fact that LinkedIn was not working today, has been a fortunate…
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Do you have a social media manager in your company? How do you measure the effectiveness of your social media efforts? Do you ask for a social media ROI? I remember I read somewhere a marketing person answering the question “what’s the ROI of social media” with another question: “What’s the ROI of your phone?”…
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One of the most interesting changes in the business world that all of us have experienced recently, with the booming of social networks, it’s surely the job market. I had my first experience of how the job market was changing back in 1998 when I had my first job interview on a chat (it was…
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Yesterday FED cut its forecasts for U.S. economic growth. It’s been just a few days after ComScore, echoed by Mashable, reported some figures about the time spent online in the US. A question came across my mind: is Facebook impacting the US Economy? Surely, Facebook is the last, more powerful B2C marketing resource of the…
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