Managing profiles and accounts across multiple social media platforms can be a daunting effort. How do fans, friends and others know where you share the most? Are you actually a blogging junkie, or perhaps you’re Twitter addicted? GeekChart is a pretty cool tool to discover the answer to these questions. It’s also a way to share the results with all of your friends and your network.
Ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky, known for their award winning creative and strategic work are earning some major PR today with the announcement that they have launched an eBay auction for the services of their 40 interns. These interns, who have been working on client engagements ranging from “Guitar Hero” to Burger King will now be available to other brands and organizations through the auction.
The average iPhone app has an engagement of 9.6 minutes per session and is accessed 19.9 times over its life cycle. This results in an average total use time per user of three hours and 10 minutes, according to Greystripe’s Q109 Consumer Insights Report which released data about iPhone app usage among its users, as well as user response to ads placed within iPhone applications.
LinkedIn is a great tool and service, if you know how to properly use it. It seems simple to find people from your email accounts, search for specific names and even those with specific skills. But there is so much more to LinkedIn that can assist in getting the most out of it. Here are some best practices to ensure that you get the most out of LinkedIn, that others can find you and that you can help others.
According to a new study by iProspect, over half of internet users (52%) actively respond to display advertising on ad-supported websites. Among them, almost as many initially respond to an ad by conducting a search as those who click on the ad. Results from iProspect’s “Search Engine Marketing and Online Display Advertising Integration Study” suggest a closer relationship between search and online display than many marketers think, noting that internet users initially respond to online display advertising as follows:
People around the world do trust the media, but to varying degrees. According to TNS, the good news, for Internet content producers, is that people now trust the information they get from online news—roughly to the same degree as news from television and information from friends. On a global basis, the most trusted information source was friends, with 42% of those surveyed saying that they trusted word-of-mouth recommendations. About an equal number trusted TV news (41%), online news (40%) and newspapers (39%).