Inc. magazine is out with a new study that tracks the Inc. 500 - the fastest growing private companies in the US:
According to the study, social media usage by companies on the Inc. 500 has grown in the past year, with 91 percent of companies reporting that they [...]
Steve Baker on Bloomberg's takeover of BusinessWeek and what it means for both the blogs and their research departments.
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The Miami Herald on a new study about Twitter psychology...
"The communication and information professors, Mor Naaman and Jeffrey Boase, found that there tend to be two types of Twitter folks. The majority, or 80 percent, were what they called 'meformers' -- Twitter users who sent out messages that revolved" [...]"My job is really jumping on the social-media bandwagon and strongly encourages employees to use sites like Twitter and Facebook to help broaden our company’s brand and build a presence online. I’m really uncomfortable with combining my personal online life with my professional one, but no one else seems" [...]
To often, it seems, we forget that the people we interact with have their own lives. Their social relationships have far more impact on their behavior than anything you or I might say or do. This is one of the tenets of The Four Agreements. Nowhere is this more [...]
If you're paying any attention to the techosphere today there are two stories dominating the headlines. Both involve non-shipping products.
First, Google showed off the first demo of its Chrome OS. Download Squad does a nice job breaking it down....
"So what exactly is Chrome'" [...]
Earlier this week Oxford University Press declared "unfriend" its word of the year. This got me thinking... now that we are entering an era of media reforestation what common phrases could soon be history? Here's 10 that I came up with. You may disagree but I believe all of these have' [...]
Google Fast Flip appears to be nearing a full integration into Google News. I wasn't able to replicate this in other browsers so right now this appears to just be a cookie test. Stories from Google Fast Flip started appearing at the bottom of my page - even when' [...]
I make heavy use of Google Search options in refining my queries. I was surprised this morning to see that the "reviews" option is now gone. This was one of the more handy features. Anyone have any insight here?
Search Options before (image via Search Engine Land). Note under that [...]
Fact: Information sources are exploding. More information will be created in 2009 than all prior years.
Fact: Attention is finite. We're becoming media agnostic, but when we're interested in something we dig down into our interests. This is why I and others like Robert Scoble are really excited about [...]It never ceases to amaze me just how careless some people are with their passwords. These days we all need to be smart and vigilant. Farhad Manjoo put together a simple way to secure your online accounts. It has only two steps.
"Start with an original but [...]
Satisfied with your Google ranking? It just may change before the day is out. Marissa Mayer on Google's race against spammers...
"We have two, three, five changes every week that are visible to the end-user in the user interface. We don't [publicize] the ranking changes. We are making changes to our" [...]LinkedIn and Twitter announced a status update syncing arrangement yesterday. From LinkedIn...
"The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, [...]I have been spending a fair amount of time on Facebook since they updated the news feed feature, mostly because I can get a quick read on what's new. I like how they show you "trends from friends." In the process, I am discovering that it's becoming a one-stop shop for [...]
Two new studies point to a growing divide in how moms and kids communicate and are influenced...
First up, Nielsen/Pete Blackshaw's Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids: "In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3'" [...]
MarketingCharts uncovers some fresh data on how PR people feel about press releases. It's ugly.
"(only) 49% of today’s professional communicators say they think press releases are 'as useful as ever,' according to recent poll of corporate communicators conducted by Ragan Communications and PollStream."
And on why we can't kick' [...]
The images above should strike fear in any one who seeks attention - be it a brand, a politician or an individual. They come from Nielsen. The first (87) is the number of domains the average American visits in a month. The second [...]
Five years ago there was media and social media and the two were distinct. You know what was what. It was like there elephants and zebras. You knew the difference.
Today all media is social, all social is media. It's impossible to separate the two. The media [...]
via Posterous powers "storystreaming" at the Pioneer Press
Julio Ojeda-Zapata explainsl how the St. Paul Pioneer Press used Posterous to solicit photos from readers in reporting the Packers-Vikings game over the weekend.
Here are two fresh interviews that might be of interest. The first covers blogging's place in a microblog world. The second captures the essence of my productivity system, how I work and the tools I use
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