Archive for the ‘About Social Media’ Category

Rubel Mines Google Insights

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January 1st, 2009

Steve Rubel, technologist at Edelman PR and blogger, always surprises me. Rather than making sweeping predictions for 2009, he uses Google Insights for Search to discuss trends we move into the new year. Probably not too surprising was that 2008 Google searches for the term “social networks” was up 178% over 2007. The data certainly [...]

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Facebook up to 47.5m US visitors

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December 25th, 2008

Adam Ostrow over at Mashable posted new numbers from Nielsen Online on the popularity of Facebook. For November 2008, Nielsen reports MySpace having 59.1m US visitors and Facebook having 47.5m US visitors. This is pretty amazing growth with FB up from 39.9m visitors in October 08 and well above 21.9m US visitors in November 07. The [...]

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N.Y. Times’ Bill Keller

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December 13th, 2008

Great NPR piece about the future of newspapers with Bill Keller, editor, NYT. The article includes the audio interview with Bill and is revealing. He sees the future of newspapers in digital products serving users in new ways. He also mentions the use of social media by the Obama campaign as a successful method to [...]

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Can Newspapers Survive On Less?

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November 22nd, 2008

A terrific article from Instead by Stewart Pallester today regarding the impact of digital media on traditional media. Some great examples from  Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School of Communication to support his point that traditional media may never completely disappear, but most will be “smaller [...]

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