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Myspace Music Australia has launched. Kevin Rudd’s MySpace Music Playlist My Happiness’ by Powderfinger Kevvie On MySpace Music Malcolm Turnbull’s MySpace Music Playlist ‘Chan MySpace is a vital It socializes the find-filter-forward mechanism a lot better, apparently. Find cool music, filter through it (list friends), and then forward on.

Facebook , MySpace , Twitter , LinkedIn and Ning are ranked 4th, 11th, 25th, 89th and 154th among all websites in the world, respectively. From a business point of view, MySpace has become primarily a niche site for the music industry. If a “friend” spams me, I remove him or her, unless of course it’s somebody I know from outside Facebook, in which case he or she gets an The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

common debate among those working in marketing and social media is between engaging people on your own domain - in an online community that you build and manage yourself - and engaging people where they are - out in social networks like Facebook and MySpace or on YouTube, external blogs or forums. There is, of course, a place for both of these things - engaging people in social networks can often be more suitable for campaign-based activities. Image by MattRhodes via Flickr A

Of course, this has never been easy. Rather than a brand trying to engage people separately in Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and every other social network and forum site, it is better to use these as gateways to somewhere else. Tags: Matt Rhodes Online communities Social Media Social networks Brand Branded content co-creation customer communities facebook flickr freshminds FreshNetworks FreshNetworks Blog Google innovation Internet marketing market research myspace online communities online market research qualitative market Research released by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in the UK suggests that people are growing increasingly tired of requests to join brand pages or install brand applications in Facebook and other social networks .

MySpace was second with 30 percent but it had a While MySpace declined in visits, it had 0160; Of course, there was dramatic increase in Facebook visitors tend to be older than MySpace this seems consistent with the other I recently found some useful social social media statistics through @ariegoldshlager on T witter. Exoerian Hitwise released its September 2009 results. 

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You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. Of course, the problem with complicated models like this is that they are suited only to certain circumstances. online communities Measurement co-creation customer communities Social network FreshNetworks Fundraising Our post a few days ago on measurement and ROI in social media, Social Media ROI: Measuring the unmeasurable , prompted a fair amount of discussion. The main thrust of the post, and of

Presentations from Facebook and MySpace at the Marketing 2.0 conference caused something of a stir - first of all for getting both on stage at the same time, and second as Damien Vincent from Facebook, having only just joined them from MySpace, seemed to momentarily forget who he was working for. Of particular interest was a set of statistics shown by Olivier Hascot from MySpace, based on surveys in the UK. Image by Getty Images via Daylife But the content of their presentations was interesting, if only to see how both organisations approach selling their marketing

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