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E-Mail Marketing’s Missed Opportunities

September 8th, 2008 by

E-mail overload is nothing new, leaving communications professionals struggling to find new methods to increase deliverability, opens, clicks and conversions in e-mail marketing efforts. According to the “Elements of E-mail” survey conducted by eROI, these… Continued

Olympic Evolution: New Media Stage Requires PR Execs to Shift Strategies

September 8th, 2008 by

During the past six weeks, three of the most widely viewed events of the year—the Olympics in Beijing, the Democratic National Convention in Denver and the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul—took the world stage… Continued

When Facebook Attacks: Maintaining Social Responsibility in a Social Media World

September 8th, 2008 by

The popularity of social networking websites like Facebook presents a broad array of communications opportunities and challenges for organizations looking to manage their digital reputation. Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia came face-to-face with these challenges… Continued

More Companies are Turning to Blogs for Marketing

September 2nd, 2008 by

  Blogging may have started as a channel for people to start conversations and build virtual communities, but more and more companies are using blogs as marketing tools. In a story in last week’s Washington… Continued

Solving the Social Media Measurement Problem

September 2nd, 2008 by

News flash: Social media isn’t going anywhere. This whole “blogosphere” thing has gone from a social phenomenon to a full-blown media outlet. Yet today, many companies still do not measure the impact social media is… Continued

Maximizing Revenue with Twitter

August 25th, 2008 by

A series of recent moves by Twitter suggests the micro-blogging service is running into trouble with its business model. As columnist Ben Kunz writes in BusinessWeek, when Twitter launched in Japan in April, users saw… Continued

The Semantic Web

August 25th, 2008 by

The phenomenon of personalized search is an important step forward toward the semantic web. In its own way, personalized search creates a mini semantic web that is based on the preferences and behavior over time… Continued

Search Still Segregated

August 25th, 2008 by

A recently released report from iProspect, conducted by JupiterResearch, reveals that 45% of search engine marketers do not integrate their search marketing efforts with offline channels, in turn uncovering a disconnect between search engine marketer… Continued

User Generated Content is Surpassing Publisher’s Content

August 19th, 2008 by

New content creation is a key factor in publishers meeting marketers’ brand objectives. According to BearingPoint global director of integrated marketing Paul Dunay, 120,000 new blogs are created every day—an indicator that user-generated content is… Continued

Annual Reports Version 2.0: Taking IR’s Main Attraction to Cyberspace

August 18th, 2008 by

Never a function ripe with proverbial sex appeal, investor relations has experienced a makeover in recent years, having been bitten by the digital bug alongside many of its conservative corporate counterparts. Now, IR executives are… Continued