“Apple hates personality stuff and press intrusion. ‘We want to discourage profiles’. Strong words from an Apple PR. Apparently Apple didn’t want the Sunday Times to publish the 4000 word plus profile for the fact that it may reveal more about jobs past, present, and future than the company is willing to disclose. I think [...]
Some Social Media Numbers
Here are a few fast Facts from the Intranet 2.0 Global Survey Report: Out of organizations who have began there social media endevors, 46% have spent $10,000 or less, 35% have spent between $10,000 and $100,00; and 19% have spent $100,000 or more. Remember these numbers represent organizations of all sizes. The sample found that [...]
August 19, 2009
Categories: Blog, Media, economy, search, social media . Tags: informational, Kyle Goggans, Numbers, Report, social media, Stats . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
OMG- SO I FOUND THIS AWSOME SLIDESHARE ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA!
This is a 2009 must have! Ok I realize that maybe, just maybe, I’m a little over excited about 1 simple Slideshare presentation yet again covering the topic of social media. But this one is really good. It’s not so much about impressive numbers (although it does contain a number of them) but more about [...]
August 18, 2009
Categories: Blog, social media . Tags: Kyle Goggans, Slideshare, social media, update, What is . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Don’t Be Such A Wallflower!
Turns out, I’m a Twitter Wallflower. Seeing that, as stated before, I don’t invest nearly as much time into my twitter as Facebook, this is no surprise. According to Mojo, their proven “scientific method” shows that, though I don’t tweet much, I do show the potential to be the life of the party! See this [...]
August 14, 2009
Categories: Just for fun, facebook, social media, twitter . Tags: Know your mojo, Kyle Goggans, social media, twitter, Yahoo . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Facebook’s Search Toolbar Gets More Muscle
As Facebook balloons to over 250 million users, many voice their appreciation for Facebook’s small social network feel. Unlike its so-last-year counterpart, MySpace, Facebook has successfully maintained a very personal feel, finding hundreds of ways to link the most relevant people, in the most relevant ways. Even so, because Facebook has so many interesting people, useful [...]
August 13, 2009
Categories: facebook, search . Tags: facebook, improve, Kyle Goggans, search . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Facebook – Short & Sweet
So Facebook has ‘accidentally’ disclosed that it has plans for a new site, dubbed Facebook lite. Unlike the current Facebook site, Facebook lite offers users a simplified, no-frills Facebook experience – eerily similar to Twitter, Facebooks biggest competitor. But Facebook claims that its new chip-off-the-old-block is merely the manifestation of a solution to many worldwide [...]
August 12, 2009
Categories: Media, facebook, newspapers, social media, twitter . Tags: facebook, Facebook lite, Kyle Goggans, leaked, news, social media, social networks . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Teens Don’t Tweet
This is a topic that has been in rotation for quite a while now. And you know what, I think it’s kinda true. I’ll be honest, I’m 19, an avid Facebook user, college student, middle-class background, and yet, Twitter doesn’t enthrall me – or even marginally retain my attention. And the thing is, I’m not [...]
August 7, 2009
Categories: Blog, Media, facebook, social media, twitter . Tags: Kyle Goggans, social media, Social Ne, Teen, twitter . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
IE6 No More?
The campaign asks sites to include code that detects IE6 visitors and encourages them to upgrade to Firefox, IE8, or Google Chrome. On Tuesday the movement composed of around a dozen sites, today that number exceeds 70 participants. The sites jumping on board are by no means insignificant: they include established internet startups, consulting firms [...]
August 7, 2009
Categories: Blog, Google, Media, Strategis, newspapers, search, social media . Tags: campagin, internet explore, Kyle Goggans, social media . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Google Buys Web Video Software Firm
Google, on Wednesday, anounced that it has agreed to buy On2 Technologies, which sells video compression software, in a stock deal valued at about $106 million. The per-share price was 57 percent above On2’s closing stock price on Tuesday, and On2’s shares soared on the news. Similar to Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube at a [...]
August 6, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Google, newspapers, search, social media . Tags: Google, Kyle Goggans, merge, on2, search . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
FledgeWing – the LinkedIn For College Students
No ambitious young person wants to wait until graduation to start working on projects, developing ideas, and building teams. As a case in point, consider how many success stories from the dotcom and Web 2.0 eras have begun with brilliant twenty-somethings dropping out of college to pursue their passions. Speaking directly to this concern (or [...]
August 5, 2009
Categories: Blog, Media, Strategis, newspapers, search, social media . Tags: college, FledgeWing, Kyle Goggans, Sites, social networking . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
