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Mobile Web Use in Office Draws Suspicion
Blogging Qumu is a business service provider that has done a new study and found that 74 percent of people surveyed believe people using their mobile devices at the workplace are accessing websites they would not with a company PC for fear of retribution. Still 37% of those polled think using these devises on the sly in the office is not necessarily becoming an issue. On a lighter note, 63 % of those surveyed have caught colleagues looking at their ...
Continue readingLaptops Hang Around.
Blogging There’s always the need to throw the baby out with the bathwater where technology is concerned. For example, reports are now saying the sales of clock radios are down as people use their smartphones to wake them, and even the MP3 player ( so popular just a short time ago ) is now all but forgotten as BlackBerry’s and iPhones sweep the market. However, there seems to be at least one bastion of the tech world that appears unshakeable ...
Continue readingChina And Google: Freedom of Speech Battle Continues
Blogging With everything that’s going on the world today, you might have missed another little skirmish in the ongoing battle between Google and China. Whereas you might think a country that’s rapidly expanding its economic power might want to save itself the trouble that oppressive forces in places like Egypt and Tunisia have gone through at the hands of new Internet technology in general and social media specifically, it seems China is hell bent ...
Continue readingMen Are Better At Networking According To New Study
Blogging Although women are the more predominant users of social media sites, a new report now suggests men are better at marketing their websites and businesses on sites like LinkedIn. The popular business contact center shows while women have much stronger numbers on places like Facebook and Twitter, men are much more adept at making important contacts through the Internet in most places around the globe. Nicole Williams is the Connection Director with ...
Continue readingMobile Networks/Banking Gaining Momentum
Blogging It might be permanent or the recent Internet advertising industry’s fascination with mobile networks and apps might be another passing fancy. It could be the new app technology that’s just now sprouting wings could be the very thing to knock social media marketing off its pedestal, but regardless of how it all plays out, no serious business owner or marketer can ignore the influence mobile networks are having. Case in point. Read the news ...
Continue readingSmartphones Are Changing The Way Business Does Business
Internet News There are things that look like fads when it comes to ecommerce and getting the message out and then there are the real game changers. For example, video marketing was once poised to take over from written content as the way business got exposure on websites, but that eventually fell back. However it does seem one of the touted changes that doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon are the business applications for the smartphone. Some ...
Continue readingMost Americans On Facebook
Blogging There are more statistics that lend to the belief that Facebook is the predominant social media platform. A recent study reports most Americans are using the popular site and in fact, if you are between the ages of 12 and 50 you’re in the minority of only 4% if you don’t consider yourself a user of Facebook. According to Edison Research, 51% of Americans overall have a profile on Facebook and that’s up from 8% only three ...
Continue readingMen Are Out gaming Women According To Report
Blogging Advertisers and marketers are always looking for ways to quantify where business needs to spend their advertising dollar and as more and more money gets spent on mobile applications and gaming, there’s some interesting trends that are becoming apparent. It might be a surprise to some and not news to others, but a new survey has men out gaming woman on the Web even though the numbers are pretty close. MocoSpace has just completed a survey that ...
Continue readingSocial marketing on the rise, but traditional values still hold
Social Media Like anything else that’s new, social media marketing is taking awhile to catch on and gain the trust of some of the professionals in the industry. A new report is saying that while social marketing is on the rise, traditional techniques still have a strong foothold in the marketplace on the Internet. In fact the social media firm Constant Contact reports nearly 2/3 of businesses that reported for the survey stated they are using social ...
Continue readingDeloitte Gets Involved With Social Computing
Blogging You know that things are really rolling with social media as a means of advertising and working on the Internet when you start reading articles about bigger firms like Deloitte taking notice, and that’s just what’s been happening lately. In fact, a recent press release from that BIG4 accounting firm deals specifically with social media and asks the only real question there is—namely whether business should consider it a useful tool or ...
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