Will Facebook’s search engine compete with Google?
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I read a very interesting article on All facebook about pages from the internet now starting to appear in searches within Facebook. The example given is displayed below: You can see from the image displayed the second result of a page search is a page not on Facebook. It was a page that is on [...]
Michael Birch, founder of Bebo – National Science Gallery Talk
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Michael Birch was in Dublin yesterday as part of Dublin Web Summit and prior to this event he spoke in the Science Gallery. Michael was in the news recently because he was founder of the social network bebo, sold it to AOL for US$850 million and last week AOL sold it on for a …
23 Social media tips – a random mix
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Here’s a random collection of 23 social media tips. They are a mix of technical and non technical ones. If you only pick out one of them to-day and implement then it was worthwhile me putting the list together! 1. When you are setting up a new wordpress blog make sure you adjust settings->permalink section [...]
Bill Liao – 3 Common mistakes for startup companies
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[A post from Bill Liao, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and Co-Founder of Xing.com, a business social network with 10 million subscribers. Bill is keynote speaker at the IIA National Conference this week.] Over the years I have been involved in a lot of successful start-up companies and while most of what I write about is to [...]
Listen and contribute, Don’t broadcast
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Although I work in social media and I enjoy networking online (Linkedin, Xing, Twitter, Blogging etc) I still need to get out and about and meet people in person. I do believe that in the networked environment that we live in a combination of offline and online networking is very beneficial to a business. I [...]
Rabo saves their money using social media!
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At the Dublin Chambers of Commerce business owners network meeting last Friday Roel van Veggel the General Manager of RaboDirect.ie gave a very interesting presentation about how RaboDirect is coping in a very difficult banking market and how they are using social media as part of their marketing efforts. RaboDirect is a savings only bank [...]
Ryanair getting social with their passengers!
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In a recent post from Hotel Marketing website it claims that Ryanair are going the social media route by setting up a private community for travelers to communicate amongst each other and with Ryanair. They did consider using twitter and facebook but decided a private community is better. Is it the right decision to go [...]
Monitoring your brand online
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I was reading a booked called Just Listen by Mark Goulston over the last few days and it reminded me of the importance of listening online (e.g. monitoring your brand). Before you embark on any social media initiative you should always start listening to see what is being said and where it is being …
Social media statistics – Social media world forum – day 1
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The first day of social media forum was quite interesting and there were lots of interesting statistics that I thought would be interesting to share. Here you go: You have a 35% chance of 1,000 views on YouTube and 0.3% for 10,000 views 71% of companies say that social media is handled by one department. [...]
Using technology for networking at social media world forum
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I’m heading along to the Social Media world forum event in London starting on the 14th of March and have arranged to meet lots of cool and interesting people thanks to social media! The first thing I did was to find out the twitter hash tag for the event which was set as #smwf, I [...]