- Oct 2011 eCommerce Survey
October 3, 2011
TweetOctober 2011?s eCommerce survey found 4% more stores than the June survey, detecting 26,594 in total. The analysis looks at the home page of the top 1 million Alexa sites and analyses them for...
- New Twitter Data Shows Where You Put Your Link in Your Tweet Matters
October 25, 2011
If you’ve done any kind of research when it comes to those all-important tweets on your Twitter stream, you know that when you tweet and how you word your tweet matters. But did you know that accord...
- The U.S. Requests More User Data from Google Than Any Other Country
October 25, 2011
Google started publishing requests from governments for user information about a year ago. On Tuesday, it revealed the number of user accounts involved in those requests — revealing that the U.S...
- The Importance of Timing in Blogging,E-mail Marketing and Social Media [5 Infographics]
October 25, 2011
I don’t know if you care the importance of timing in blogging(promoting your posts) or marketing your products via e-mail but most social media professionals will tell you that the timing is crucial...
- If Social Media Goals Are To Drive Sales, Should Sales Budgets Pay For It?
October 25, 2011
There are a lot of studies out there about social media. One that recently came out comes from Covario and it’s about Facebook and how well brands are doing with regard to how people like them. I’...
- 10 Ways to Make Your B2B Trade Show Social
October 25, 2011
B2B marketers focus on social media as a way to connect online with prospects and customers, but social media offers a huge opportunity to enhance offline events like tradeshows and conferences. Trade...
- PPCall Comes to Google on the PC
October 25, 2011
Google has formally introduced PPCall this morning for AdWords advertisers in the US and UK. The program is called “bid for calls” and is built on Google’s Call Metrics call tra...
- 12 great examples from our Innovation Report
October 25, 2011
We released our Innovation Report this month, and its chock-full of great examples of forward thinking from brands and advertisers.
With the deadline for this year's Innovation Awards approaching fa...
- Flexing your Innovator Muscles in the Cloud
October 25, 2011
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David Rokita - VP Technology Operations
Several months ago, Information Week emblazoned the term “Innovation Atrophy“. Innovation Atrophy is the grand result o...
- Father of cloud computing dies
October 24, 2011
"If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility... The c...
- #FearTheCloud
October 24, 2011
Narinder Singh
Fear drives change like few forces in the world. Yet it is also often the source of paralysis that prevents action. How a person, country or company responds to fear can define w...
- How to Prepare a Software Business for Growth
October 24, 2011
Making the decision to rapidly scale your business is not easy and requires different strategies, tools, people and even customers than the business has relied on to reach its current point. Keep on r...
- IBM Offers Free Big Data Analysis Tool for iPads
October 25, 2011
A new IBM Cognos Mobile free app from IBM's Cognos division makes it easy to explore any type of data on the go with location-aware analytics. Called Cognos on the iPad , the Cincinnati Zoo has used...
- Oracle Buys RightNow. What Does It Mean?
October 25, 2011
Less than you’d think, probably, but enough so it’s worth hashing over.
It means Oracle will spend less and less time running down the Cloud and more and more time monetizing it for their own coff...
- SoftLayer® Investing $75 Million in New European Operation to Meet Growth Demands
October 25, 2011
...capabilities, which will officially 'go live' at the beginning of November. European customers can now easily order SoftLayer's unique cloud , dedicated , and managed hosting solutions. This launch...
- GFI Software Reaches Further into the Cloud with Monitis Acquisition
October 24, 2011
The addition of Monitis strongly positions GFI Software to solve the unprecedented
IT management challenges arising from the rapid adoption of cloud computing
Clearwater, Fla. – Oct. 25, 2011 ??...
- Google AdWords Advertisers Can Now Bid For Phone Calls In Search Ads
October 25, 2011
Google has announced the ability for advertisers to bid for phone calls, in addition to bidding for clicks, for Google search ads on computers and tablets. Currently, only advertisers maximum CPC bid...
- Gartner flip-flop: Try the public cloud first
October 25, 2011
I'm pretty vocal when analyst organizations provide hyped-up advice, replete with grandiose claims around the movement to some technology. The advice is both hard to follow by enterprises and many tim...
- B2B Social Media Myths – My favorite lessons from Jay Baer at MarketingSherpa’s B2B Summit
October 25, 2011
by Maria Pergolino They say you save the best for last. And this time they were right. Jay Baer ended the first day of MarketingSherpa’s B2B Summit in San Francisco with a memorable keynote. N...
- Forrester recommends a Marketing Technology Office
October 25, 2011
"Marketing must control its own technological destiny."
Not too long ago, that was a radical proposition. (In some IT quarters, it might still be.)
But today, the esteemed enterprise analysts at For...
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