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A media tip for home buyers focuses on using the social web for search

February 22, 2010

Here’s a good example of how people are shifting the way they think about looking for information given the power of the social web.
The information about homes for sale is incredibly well-organized and ubiquitous.  Still, this story over the weekend from the Chicago Tribune offers a how-to for consumers to shift their search onto the [...]

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A new web paradigm that emphasizes the social circle over digital data bases takes shape

February 22, 2010

The discussion about Facebook experienced a tipping point last week: third-party data confirmed what many observers had been suggesting, that Facebook exerts a powerful influence on how consumers are using the web.
Sheer scale is the first hurdle. Compete released data that showed Facebook outstripping Google in terms of web visits in January, a [...]

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Facebook the most used site during the Super Bowl, Comscore says

February 10, 2010

The Facebook effect on The Super Bowl was significant, Nielsen reports. Overall, 12% of the people watching the most-watched TV program ever were online at the same time. Even more impressive: a quarter of all those people were on Facebook.

First hand experience tells me that Twitter was burning up with discourse during the [...]

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Social Content Curation, Facebook and Click-Throughs

February 5, 2010

An underlying premise of social networking is the authenticity and credibility of your social graph. When people who you have networked with digitally recommend information, experience or products, you are likely to lend their recommendations more credibility than someone you don’t know. Facebook and Twitter make this kind of socially-curated content sharing incredibly [...]

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Good reads for Feb 1, 2010

February 1, 2010

So, you ask yourself, is the entire world of social networking focused in Facebook. No, it isn’t. Here’s a good essay from the CEO of myYearbook that lays out a way to think about building a private social network in a Facebook-dominated world. (via PaidContent)
David Carr of The New York Times suggests [...]

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Survey shows 57% of workers use social media tools for business

January 27, 2010

Another item in the proliferation social media tools in our daily life:  the research firm IDC points to social media as being a driving force of “cultural and process change” for business, according to its new report, The Intersection of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and Collaboration: The Social [...]

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A social media case study: Spynergy Cycling Studio

January 8, 2010

Bill Pryor, a colleague of mine, posted a great comment to my post on the ground level view of social media the other day. Somehow, the comment disappeared. Bill gives a very detailed look at just how social media has helped his business.
Here’s the comment:

Dan, as an SMB owner myself, I own [...]

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