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See Social Media Job Salaries in Top 20 U.S. Markets
Feb 10th
Onward Search created this infographic – Social Media Jobs Salary Guide. You can click on it to expand its size. Everyone is talking about how important great content is lately and I personally know how long it takes to plan things out, research and write. This IG shows that bloggers and copywriters are getting the [...]
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Law Enforcement Turns to Social Media to Collar More Criminals
Feb 10th
While the goal of criminals is always to stay one step ahead of law enforcement, some of them inevitably end up leading authorities in their direction by not being able to keep their mouths shut. In a day and age when social media is all the rage, it seems more and more criminals are tripping [...]
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LT SEO Named Best Reputation Management Company in Australia by topseos.com.au … – Press Media Wire
Feb 9th
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LT SEO Named Best Reputation Management Company in Australia by topseos.com.au …
Press Media Wire The independent authority on Search vendors in Australia, topseos.com.au, has named LT SEO the best online reputation management company in the online marketing industry for the month of February 2012. topseos.com.au evaluates and ranks the best … |
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SEO Beam Named Seventh Best SEO Company in India by topseos.in for February 2012 – Press Media Wire
Feb 9th
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SEO Beam Named Seventh Best SEO Company in India by topseos.in for February 2012
Press Media Wire The independent authority on Search vendors in India, topseos.in, has named SEO Beam the seventh best search engine optimization company in the online marketing industry for the month of February 2012. The list of the best SEO companies India are … The Best Search Engine Optimization Companies Ranked in Canada by canada … |
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A Good Social Media Marketing IDEA: Identify, Deliver, Empower, Amplify
Feb 9th
Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research and co-author of bestseller “Groundswell”, shared tips for success in social and instigating positive change by causing trouble in a way that’s disruptive at Covario’s recent INFLECTIONPoint 2012 conference.
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[STUDY] 61% of Social Media Users Feel So Close To You
Feb 9th
Sometimes little things like a sweet comment on Facebook or a Twitter friend calling your tweet a “favorite” can really make a social networker bee’s day.
A new study from Pew finds that for the most part, adults are kind to each other on social media sites. In fact, 85% of adults say that most of the people they come across on social media are rather kind; only 5% say that people are “mostly unkind,” which would imply rude or mean. An additional 5% say that it’s all situational. On the whole, adults have positive experiences on social networking sites. A total 68% of SNS users had an experience that “made them feel good about themselves,” 61% said something on social networks “made them feel closer to another person.” Of the generous and helpful variety, 39% of users said they saw acts of generosity and 36% said they see other user behaving in generous and helpful ways.
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Not everything is peaches and cream, though.
There are some social media users who don’t feel so happy-go-lucky. Not everyone experiences kind, helpful behavior on social networking sites. That would be about 18% of users; another 5% claim to never see any generosity or helpfulness at all.
Sometimes interactions on social networking sites have negative outcomes. Of the people surveyed by Pew, 26% of adults experienced negative outcomes. Of that percentage, 15% said bad experiences ended friendships, 12% resulted in a face-to-face argument or confrontation, 11% said those interactions caused family-related problems, 3% got into a physical fight with someone based on an interaction, and 3% got into trouble at work. About 13% of adult SNS users say that someone else acted rudely toward them in the past year.
Unless you live in a world that resembles the movie Young Adult, you probably don’t think of yourself as an adolescent. On social networking sites, adults tend to be more positive and less negative than teenagers; 41% of SNS-using teens had at least one bad experiences versus 26% of SNS-using adults.
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Pew points out that non-white people, women, parents and millennials are more likely to see content that offends them. Of that group, 42% of black SNS users and 33% of Hispanic SNS users frequently saw language, images or humor that they found offensive compared to 22% of white SNS users. Taking a look at this in terms of age, 34% of millennials (ages 18-34) found some material offensive, compared with only 17% of Gen-X users (ages 35-46). The survey doesn’t even give the tiny percentage of Baby Boomers who felt offended by material on SNS sites. Additionally, 29% of women were offended versus 22% of men, and 29% of parents with small children found offensive material versus 24% of nonparents.
Who Did Pew Survey?
Pew surveyed 2,260 adults ages 18-and-up over the period of July 25-August 26, 2011. Of the people surveyed, 1,047 were SNS and Twitter users. The margin of error is plus-or-minus three percentage points. A total 64% of adults surveyed used social networking sites. 87% had a profile on Facebook, 14% on MySpace, 11% on Twitter, 10% on LinkedIn and 13% on other social networking sites.
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Google Plus SEO could equal profit for companies with smart social media strategy – Toronto Star
Feb 9th
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Google Plus SEO could equal profit for companies with smart social media strategy
Toronto Star … including key link to al Qaeda Air Canada loses $60M in fourth quarter Tooba Yahya to appeal murder convictions Google Plus SEO could equal profit for companies with smart social media strategy Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, social media and. |
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[STUDY] 59% of Customers Don’t Know About Their Banks’ Social Media Presence
Feb 9th
In ComScore’s report on The State of Online and Mobile Banking, it cites social networks as a space where banks are creating a presence, and improving their capabilities. But do any of the banks’ customers even know about this? Apparently not.
Even though financial institutes have increased social networking activity, ComScore says that only 18% of customers knew that their financial institutions had a presence on social networks. A total 59% had no idea, and 24% were unsure of what their financial institutions were doing on social media sites.
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The data shows that customer visits to banks’ Facebook pages have increased by nearly 25%, whereas on Twitter and LinkedIn that number has enjoyed less much less growth.
For institutions that are creating a presence on social media sites, take heed: customers are not interested in solving customer service issues on those sites. If Facebook did update its brand pages to include private messaging options, this might change. For now, however, customers who do follow their financial institutions on social networking sites are mostly interested in retail, credit card and online shopping offers.
As social commerce continues to try and find its place on Facebook thanks to new social apps, and payment services like PayPal build a presence on Facebook, will banking be the next move? Or are social networking sites just a place for banks to build their brand? Tell us what you think in the comments.
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SEO.co.uk Named Best Enterprise SEO Company in the United Kingdom by topseos … – Press Media Wire
Feb 8th
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SEO.co.uk Named Best Enterprise SEO Company in the United Kingdom by topseos …
Press Media Wire The independent authority on Search vendors in the United Kingdom, topseos.co.uk, has named SEO.co.uk the best enterprise search engine optimisation company in the online marketing industry for the month of February 2012. topseos.co.uk provides their … |
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Harvard Researcher Uses Social Media To Predict Stock Market Volume
Feb 8th
Social media sentiment can predict flutuations in stock market volume as much as six to seven days ahead of time, according to a Harvard Business School doctoral candidate who has been studying the impact social media has on equities.
That could become a valuable tool for hedge funds and investment firms. High volatility often makes it easier for firms to trade stocks. Volatility predictions can also be factored into more comprehensive trading models and better predict whether a stock’s price will rise or fall.
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Frank Nagle is still working on his research but so far his findings echo those of other people who have looked at the issue. Most notably, what people say about a brand on social media is often a better indicator of how a stock will perform than what people say on social media about an individual stock.
“As far back as six or seven days, people’s perceptions of a brand matter,” Nagle said. “The problem has been that public perception has always taken longer than a buy or sell sentiment to factor into share price.”
Nagle’s research also shows in certain concentrated industries sentiment about the overall industry may have more of an impact on share price than sentiment about the individual company. He offered the airline industry as an example, where a relatively small number of publicly-traded companies focus on providing one core service. An increases in tweets about air travel, for example, may predict forthcoming volatility for the volume of shares for companies within that industry.
Nagle cautioned that, at least for now, social media sentiment is probably not enough to make an educated buy or sell decision, but it can – and will – be a factor in trading models going forward.
“It’s useful to know what the public is saying about a company to help make those decisions, and theoretically using that data to make those decisions could be possible in the future,” he said. “But for now, if the only piece of information you’re using to make buy and sell decisions is social media, I would be concerned.”
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