In a survey, Social Media Marketing Industry Report , by Michael Stelzner with almost 700 responses an overwhelming majority (88%) of marketers say they are using some form of social media to market their business, though 72% of those using it say they have only been at it a few months or less. The Media Buyer Planner reported that the study found that Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook - in that order - are the top four social media tools used by marketers. Here is another study on the growing use of social media in marketing. See below for links to other studies.

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. This survey does surprise us at FreshNetworks a little. Image via Wikipedia Despite this, 86% thought that social media was here to stay.

3) Provide reference: You must provide your title, and a link to your blog/profile/linkedin that indicates your role and title, perhaps a post that announced your title or intentions. Developer Network at Yahoo! John Summers, Community Manager at NetApp Mario Sundar, Community Evangelist at LinkedIn Tom Ablewhite, Community Manager, Thomson Reuters Craig Cmehil, Community Manager for the SAP Developer Network Lou Ordorica, Social Media Producer at Sun Microsystems John Earnhardt, Senior manager, media relations and blogger in chief, Cisco Systems Deirdre Walsh, Community

In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. LinkedIn, in October 2009 had over 50 million members (plus 385 staff)   $75-100m – 1/4 from advertising. Along the way, Hoffman also used some of his PayPal proceeds We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it?

received approximately 60 completed surveys. LinkedIn • YouTube 5 entered LinkedIn for recruiting and client acquisition and retention. • 3 Note: The full report contains all of the write in data about Twitter, as well as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and the other priority social media sites. The Social Media Ecosystems research study was conducted by the Online Community Research Network in April of 2009. The study was created to provide insight about how organizations leverage external online community and social media sites to support their organizational goals.

love the way Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites organize content around people and relationships. Facebook and LinkedIn are places where you go to "network". person's activities or experiences show up on Facebook or LinkedIn only when somebody makes a special effort to put them there. Socialtext announced two major product announcements today: Socialtext People and Socialtext Dashboard. I'm excited about Dashboard, but People really rocks my world.

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practices. Our new KM Edge groups on LinkedIn and Facebook are We already have more than150 members in our LinkedIn group, so joining using traditional measures and biased surveys to measure KM impact in complex environments, The Bain & Company report ( available here ) shows that benchmarking usage has KMEdge APQC KM Edge: Where the best in Knowledge Management come together APQC knowledge management km best practices Sign In

LinkedIn blocked because it’s an excellent jobsearch tool? THREE: THE COLLABORATIVE, TEAM BUILDING, POLL of a SURVEY FOUR: COLLECT THE SURVEY, PUBLISH THE RESULTS If you have a very large organisation, put the survey on an internal wiki - call it a “collaborative knowledgement management system” to get it past the IT fiends.  For Public Relations who are concerned about Crisis Communication in Social Networks and are responsible for Social Media Training across the organisation. Facebook banned in the workplace?