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Facebook Places for Businesses

Digital Marketing, Netbits, Social Media

Facebook Places is a location-based service. Other examples of location-based services include Foursquare and Gowalla. Users sign into Facebook Places using their mobile phones and let their friends know where they are. On Foursquare there’s also a game element where...

Add Facebook Chat to Your Firefox Sidebar

Netbits, Social Media

If you use Firefox as your Web browser, you can add Facebook chat to the Sidebar, thus keeping it alive and active even while you browse elsewhere. Here’s how to make it happen: In Firefox, press Ctrl-B to open the Sidebar in Bookmarks view. Right-click the...

Ominous Use of Social Networks

Netbits, Social Media

Increasingly, social media content is being used in ways that consumers never expected – and is likely to fuel the growing backlash. Consider Jeremiah Owyang’s post on how insurance companies are eying tweets as a potential data point for underwriting. In...

Blogging overlooked online tool by retailers

E-Commerce, Netbits, Social Media

… even though it can lead to additional sales, writes Investopedia. Of the top 100 internet retailers of 2009, only 44 of them had a blog and just 36 posted on a frequent basis, it said. “Investors rightly should expect retailers to do everything in their...

Social Media Myth #1 – Social Media doesn’t apply to my business

Netbits, Social Media

It’s easy to ignore social media – especially if you’re a B2B industrial company. Social media is new, it’s flashy and it’s just not something a crusty sales guy has any interest in. (Just give ’em a booth at a tradeshow and they’re happy – harrumph!). If you’re...

B2B Spending on Social Media to Explode

Digital Marketing, Netbits, Social Media

Outsell estimates that marketing on social networks will grow 43.3% in 2010. Forrester Research predicts that B2B firms will spend $54 million on social media marketing in 2014, up from just $11 million in 2009. Paid advertising on social networks—banners, text ads...

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