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137 Articles match "Europe","Media"
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams. For more social media snippets, follow her on @emodkate - or for general twittery, @KateVWilliams. This week: Chaps, we need feedback! The ponderously-named Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society warned that British news is now controlled by a shrinking pool of media players, and that a Twice-weekly we slave over a hot keyboard without a clue what you, our beloved readers, think of our round-ups - so waddya reckon? Are
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
this just another social-media-will-solve-our social-problems dream? then spoke to Daniel Morris and Charo Moreno about how local young people will engage, and to Mauricio Davilia, director of CDI Europe … and joined in a conversation between Richard Smartt, who is running the course, and Dan McQuillan who has long experience of both social action using social media, and social entrepreneurship. CDI Europe
Young people looking for jobs and new skills … community problems needing innovative solutions … smartphones increasingly popular … apps for these phones a big growth area.
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams. For more social media snippets, follow her on @emodkate - or for general twittery, @KateVWilliams. Over in Europe, a German court has decreed that an existing law which requires that telephone and email traffic-data be stored for six months can’t stand. This week: Revenge of the Zombie Slave Computers; human touchscreens; and robotic teachers. THE HEADLINES ... THE LOWDOWN ... IN OTHER NEWS ... THE HEADLINES ... In a considerable coup for cyber-law enforcement, Spanish investigators have arrested the three alleged ringleaders of a massive botnet which has, for at least a year, spread its monstrous tentacles across the net, allowing criminals and hackers to penetrate up to 12.7m
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Monday, March 2, 2009
We’ve posted in the past about the use of social media in Russia, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev launched a video blog . But data from TNS shows that use of social media and social networking in the country is widespread, making it the fourth largest market in Europe for social networking behind the UK, Germany and France. These statistics are impressive and firmly place Russia as the fourth biggest market in Europe The January Web Index for TNS shows that two leading social networks in Russia are witnessing the kind of acceleration in growth that we have seen in other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter .
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns. The history approach also shows that while the term “social media” was not in play when I jumped in, the social use of online media has been growing for many years - well I These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Yesterday we posted about statistics from MarketingSherpa showing that a lack of knowledge hampers social media marketing , with 46% of firms who had not adopted social media marketing citing a lack on internal understanding as their main hindrance. Another set of statistics from MarketingSherpa paints a more positive outlook for social media agencies.
In September 2008, just as we were recognising the full potential of the economic downturn in which we now find ourselves, they surveyed almost 400 firms asking them about their marketing spend for 2009. Which lines would increase and which lines would decrease.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The headline findings are interesting on their own and suggest a growing acceptance and usefulness of social networks and social media in the enterprise. This starts to show the real power of social media - it’s not just about letting people do old things in new ways, but about facilitating completely new ways of connecting, sharing, and indeed of working.
Taking only the adoption of social networks as part A report out this week from AT&T explores the adoption of social networking in the workplace and the rise of Enterprise 2.0. Based on 2,500 interviews in
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
You can read the full article in the latest edition of Pharmaceutical Executive Digest Europe , but the interview got me thinking about the ways in which people can use Linkedin as a networking tool, and also how you can gain some (but not all) of the benefits that you would get from a community of practice.
The Secret Is Out - Social Media Is Work (einnoventions.com)
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Social Media statistics: Ever wondered how many people are blogging, uploading videos, tweeting right at this very minute ? You might want to factor that into the social media counter!
The counter is wildly popular in Germany, England (The Guardian embedded it) and other parts of Europe, and the US is picking up on it now, as we speak (Wired embedded it). Here’s a counter that displays growth of Twitter, money spent on Facebook gifts, number of SMS’s sent worldwide second by second. Social Network activity measured in real time.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Japan, and other Asian markets, are known for having more established mobile internet usage than in Europe, America or elsewhere. In Western Europe, the penetration rate will creep above 50% of all mobile connection.
Tags: Matt Rhodes Required reading Social Media Social networks 3g FreshNetworks Mobile Computing Mobile Web MorganStanley online communities Personal computer social media Social network service social networking Voice over Internet Image by shapeshift via Flickr
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about the role of mobile in the Japanese social
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
useful survey from global PR firm Burson-Marsteller this week looks at the ways in which the Global Fortune 100 companies are using social media . The tools they are using and how they are developing a social media strategy . The survey looked at 100 firms in the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and examined how these firms are using social media.
Image by Robert S. Donovan via Flickr
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Social Media ROI: Measuring the unmeasurable? - FreshNetworks , March 22, 2009
Twitter: Measuring clickthrus Social Media Metrics - Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy , March 16, 2009
Social media ROI - a calculator for not for profit campaigns - FreshNetworks , March 25, 2009
Now that we are a couple of months into the “signal sharing” of the Communities and Networks Connection , I wanted to share the top posts people have clicked into on the site (courtesy of the magic of Tony Karrer ). I find that sometimes I am paying attention to the site,
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Two-third of marketers in the UK don’t understand social media , according to a survey from McCann Erickson Bristol .
The survey found that almost two-thirds of marketers in the survey felt that they didn’t understand enough about social media to use it effectively in marketing. Despite this, 86% thought that social media was here to stay.
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This survey does surprise us at FreshNetworks a little.
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