Required reading online communities customer communities Social network FreshNetworks Web Rate of return weisgerber qualitative market research Social Media Twitter corinnew JetBlue Marketing 2.0 online market research innovation market research United Kingdom Public relations Matt Rhodes co-creation corinne weisgerber Case stud Again this week, Twitter has been high on the media agenda. As is always the case during a time of innovation, brands are experimenting with lots of different ways of using Twitter.

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Tags: social media qualitative market research Social Media Virtual community online market research freshminds Blog innovation market research United Kingdom Social networks Matt Rhodes web2.0 Two-thirds of the world’s entire online population have visited ‘Member communities’, including social networks , online communities and blogs , according to Nielsen’s Global Faces and Networked Places report. This places social networks and online communities as the fourth most popular category of online activities, ahead of personal email.

Tags: social media qualitative market research TED Social Media Twitter online market research Evan Williams freshminds innovation market research United Kingdom Social networks Matt Rhodes web2.0 There’s a lot of talk about Twitter at the moment in the press and across the web. From how brands should be using Twitter , to the impact that mass adoption is having .

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Tags: social media qualitative market research Social Media Virtual community Twitter marketing online market research freshminds innovation market research United Kingdom Business Matt Rhodes web2.0 A new report out this week suggests that the biggest hindrance in the adoption of social media is a lack of knowledge. The statistics, from MarketingSherpa , look at the barriers that organisations cite as having stopped them from adopting social media marketing techniques in their firm.

Twitter is even more disastrous - it can give you cancer as social isolation (read interacting in online environments) alter our genes.  (PDF link to piece of sensationalist research) Tags: research The Guardian cancer Uncategorized online environments isolation online experience decline of humanity online dating United Kingdom twitte Lately, there has been lot of bizarre writing on how the hotspots of the internet, be that Facebook or Twitter or anything else, is bad for you.  The Guardian covers some of the fluff here .