Posts Tagged LinkedIn
Peanut Butter & Chocolate
Posted by Bill in MeshBlog, Social Networking on November 11th, 2009
Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company’s director of social media, has some useful thoughts about news that LinkedIn users can now update your LinkedIn status via Twitter, and Twitter users can update your Twitter status from LinkedIn: ”The fact that a site as grounded in the business world as LinkedIn would choose to align with Twitter is a [...]
Investor Relations in the Age of Social Media
The Cross Border Group, publisher of IR Magazine for corporate investor relations professionals, has posted an article looking at the issues and challenges that social media brings for corporate investor relations.
“The risk posed by social media for your company … exists whether you participate or not,’ observed Darrell Heaps, CEO of Q4 Web Systems, an [...]
Why Teens Don’t Tweet
Actually, they do. In fact, teens are a larger percentage of Twitter users then they are of Facebook users. But most teens don’t use Twitter – just as most people don’t use any single social media platform. That’s because each platform – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc., is different, and meets different needs.
Your challenge as [...]
Battle in Boston: JetBlue, Southwest, Face Off at Logan and Online
The Associated Press reports on the battle between low-fare airlines JetBlue and Southwest in Boston:
Because of their cheap fares and high customer service rankings, both airlines have legions of loyal travelers. Part of that loyalty can also be traced to fresh marketing that tries to put some fun in flying. JetBlue’s tongue-in-cheek ads have urged [...]
Wife of Twitter CEO Tweets Birth of Her Baby … And Other Notes from the Twitterverse
The wife of Twitter CEO Evan Williams tweets through childbirth … giving her husband’s company additional publicity. A little closer to “normal” on the weird-o-meter, Peter Habib, the corporate spokesman for Australian company Telstra, live-tweeted as the company CEO delivered his quarterly earnings report. Habib posted more than 30 tweets, putting the news out via [...]
The Age of Social Media
Wondering which social networking media would be the best to reach your current or intended customers and supporters? “Social networkers utilize popular Websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in different ways depending on their age,” says eMarketer.com. Also today: Twitter is the top social media platform at Fortune 100 companies, according to a [...]
Social media skills now crucial to a job search
Posted by Bill in Uncategorized on July 29th, 2009
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says, “The landscape of today’s job market is shifting, and the shift favors individuals who are savvy in social media.” Also, at BusinessWeek.com, social media personal branding evangelist Dan Schwabel urges job-searchers to use blogs and social media tools – specifically, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Says Schwabel, “If you rely on [...]
110 Million Consumers
BizReport.com notes new stats from Anderson Analytics estimating that there are 110 million consumers using social networking sites, with most of them using either Facebook, MySpace or Twitter – and 61 percent of them being under the age of 35.
The article also notes that, six months ago, “MySpace was the top dog in the social [...]
Use of social networking sites poses new challenges
An attorney’s guest column in The Tennessean warns businesses about the potential problems posed by employees using social networking tools such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, and urges businesses to adopt policies governing employees’ use of social networking sites via company computers. Good advice – the kind you’d expect from an attorney whose job [...]
The Business of Social Networks
From the Stanford Knowledgebase: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have changed the way individuals communicate in their personal life and increasingly in their business life. The article is a list of links.
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