Tom Jones' post in Business2Community today lays out some excellent reasons why Google + needs to be a part of your social content plan. • It increases your ranking on Google’s search engine results. • It can be integrated with all your other Google applications, such as Google Calendar, Gmail, and Google Voice. • It ensures that your business shows up on Google Local and … [Read more...]
Google News – then and now
Google News launched in September 2002. What started as an aggregator of news content has gone through some interesting changes in the last 10 years. Not so long ago some media companies were fighting to keep their content out of Google News, yet Google reports that they index articles from more than 50,000 news sources across 72 editions and 30 languages and the results are … [Read more...]
Social Media Training Gap: 50% of Companies are Ill-Equipped
According to a 2012 study conducted by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Ipsos ASI and Bloomberg, there is a skills gap in business use of social media. While the majority of businesses are using social media, only 6% say their social media skills and competencies are optimal. A full 50% claim to be either below their industry average or feel they are … [Read more...]
Digital and Social Reputation Ignored by Many Executives
According to the Zeno Digital Readiness Survey many executives fail to consider social media reputation when making business decisions. In fact, more than one-third of the 300 US executives (36 percent) say that the CEO of their company does not care, or cares little, about the company’s reputation in social media. (I can only assume that they have not yet felt the … [Read more...]
5 Media Relations Strategies that Help Get Your Brand Story Published
Remember the days when we read the newspaper over a cup of coffee every morning and watched the evening news on TV? We were quite happy to get our news just once a day. That’s no longer the case. Now we expect to see eye-witness accounts of events as they are occurring. This appetite for instant visual news has changed the way news is gathered, reported and consumed. While … [Read more...]
