Monthly Archives: August 2010

Twitter to FB to website – a practical example of social media at work!

I was looking at my Tweetdeck this sunny (it still exists!) Friday and saw we had been retweeted by someone from Canada, so I went to their site from the link, read their comments on FB pages and instantly changed … Continue reading

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The importance of social media to any e-commerce business

We have all seen the explosion of corporations creating online communities, but let us take a look at how easy it can be to connect with your e-commerce customers and how important social media is to your customers. First, we … Continue reading

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Google is now going to compete with Skype

This week, Google unveiled a feature that will enable its Gmail users to call landlines and mobile phones from their e-mail inbox. The new feature broadens Google’s growing array of communication products and creates a potent rival to Skype, which … Continue reading

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Foursquare founder slates Facebook Places

Talking to The Telegraph,  Dennis Crowley, said he had now had time to play around with Facebook’s new location tool, which directly rivals his own product by allowing people to share their location with their network, through checking into bars, … Continue reading

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More privacy concerns as Facebook users can now "check-in"

Facebook users can already poke, post, like and share. Now the social networking website has added another activity to its arsenal of social activities – users can now “check-in”. With its Places feature, which it launched on Wednesday, users can … Continue reading

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Online sales on the up

Internet sales grew in July at their fastest pace since before the recession, as wet weather encouraged home shopping, a survey suggests. Online sales grew by 18% in the month compared with a year earlier, the biggest jump since 2007, … Continue reading

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Social Media..a recognised source now for news junkies!

According to a study conducted by United Kingdom based iCD Research, social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are catching up to major news websites when it comes to which source users turn to for breaking news. The picture … Continue reading

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Its sensible to embrace Online reputation management

If you are the owner of a business you may already be aware of how your potential customers are using the internet as a way to help them make decisions on which product and brand to purchase. Whether you own … Continue reading

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The future of f-commerce being played out..

So P&G are developing quite a taste for f-commerce – selling on Facebook.  In the UK, with their Amazon-powered Facebook store for the makeup of makeup artists brand Max Factor, and in the US, now a Facebook Campaign Store to support … Continue reading

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Social media is there for you to build your online reputation!

Most large companies have already realised this and make use of Facebook, MySpace, etc. to reinforce their online presence, but a shocking number of PR specialists and business owners are still not using social media to their full advantage. For … Continue reading

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