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Social Media By The Numbers – A Curated List of Social Media Tips
Bankers, lawyers, consultants – Alacra’s core end-users – are generally reluctant to share anything important. Still, we’ve been experimenting with ways to use social media, primarily Twitter, for marketing and communication. In our research we’ve come up with some great tips from the blogosphere and have collected many of them here:
Digital promiscuity is due to lack of switching costs
I was sorry to have missed the Web 2.0 Summit this year. Over the weekend I watched a couple of the session videos. The panel discussion titled Whither Journalism, led by John Battelle with Robert […]
Newspapers are Over
Why doesn’t everyone get this? A recent post on BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis’ blog, is titled The Real Sin: Not Running Businesses. Possible reasons why newspapers are sunk: not innovating, not charging, inaction, tying online to print. Jeff explores the concept that perhaps newspapers are sinking because for the longest time they weren’t run […]
Interesting Articles in Corporate Board Member Magazine
Since Corporate Board Member is an Alacra content partner I get a copy of their magazine and I flip through every issue. This quarter there were a number of interesting pieces:
Securities Analysts? Fuggedaboutem summarizes some recent research that says an “about-face” by a securities analyst has little short-term impact on a stock’s price.
Is Linking Social Networks a Good Idea? I Don’t Think So
The final panel of last week’s SIIA NetGain (#Netgain) conference covered social networking. Representatives of Facebook, Plaxo, Salesforce.com and LexisNexis were on the panel. The conversation focused on how the different social networks were going to enable users to connect and share data between them. There were a bunch of PowerPoint slides shown; one […]
Twitterdipity
The continuous serendipity of Twitter.
Last week I read with amazement Umair Haque’s post on the NY Times potentially buying Twitter. As the numerous comments point out, this is financially impossible for the Times and would be strategically suicidal for Twitter. It’s also hard to come up with a case where 2 businesses, each currently […]
Street Pulse Named CODiE Award Finalist
Jobs Summary
Charlie Wolf, Needham: “Steve Jobs health” factor could cause the stock to fall an additional 10% to 15%. […]
Newspapers and the Web
