Twitter Users Not Tweeting?

In an interesting article released yesterday from CNN Reporter Julianne Pepitone, 73% of twitter users have tweeted less than 10 times. Is Twitter becoming more of a news feed than a place to conversate and engage with other tweeters?? Seems that way.
Late last year, we blogged about the different ways twitter users used the social network. The [...]

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What the Hell is a Microblog?

Granted, we geeks like to throw out web terms, acronyms and other made up words, just to keep you guessing and fetter out the “cool kids”. But, the English language has more than doubled in the last 10 years, thanks to “geek speak”. LOL, XML, BLOG, TWEET, IRL, AGGREGATOR, and of course, one of [...]

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Getting Social Is About Being Real

Social Media

Today’s cultural movement of the introduction of new technology (beginning with the invention of the telephone in 1876 and continuing with the rapidity of subsequent entertainment technologies) has proven to be the cornerstone of our “gotta know” voracious appetite. In the early days of radio and television, advertising was geared to be an [...]

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Teens Don’t Do Twitter, and Are Breaking Up With Blogs

Blogging

Teens and blogging have gone through a nasty break up, some new stats suggest. According to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the percentage of teens who blog is down 50% from 2006. The numbers sunk from 28% of online teens to just 14% of online teens.
So what are teens [...]

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Free Music For JUST A Tweet!

Pearl-Jam-free-download

Yep, a new trend for 2010, that’s here to stay! Music artist are starting to take on the full advantages of social media! If you are Pearl Jam fan and want to download their new single “Just Breathe” without having to pay for it, you can!  That’s right, you read right!!! You can trade one [...]

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Why Foursquare Rocks

Foursquare on PDAs

If you haven’t discovered the joys of Foursquare, you’re totally missing out!

This location-based app, dubbed “the next Twitter” by Mashable.com, is tons of fun. Basically, you use Foursquare to “Check In” at different locations, share insider tips, find out where your friends are, and earn distinctions in the form of badges, including “Newbie”, “Adventurer,”and “Mayor,” among others.

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JB Clients Rank Among Top 20 in “How Social Is Your DMO” Study

How Social Is Your DMO

This week, DMMI (Destination Management and Marketing Institute) released their “How Social Is Your DMO” rankings for their annual conference, “The Total Experience.” All attending DMOs were ranked, and out of 72 attendees, two JB Inc. clients ranked among the top 20, including the Baton Rouge CVB at number 9 and the Panama City Beach CVB at number 16. Congrats to these cutting-edge destinations!

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Google’s New Social Search

I am sure everyone heard or read last week about Microsoft’s Bing search deals with Twitter and Facebook. Google fired back almost immediately with their own deal – I am sure there were no surprises here. Google also completed their deal with Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, Google announced a new feature: Social Search.
Google’s [...]

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Twitter Search Function Now Live on Bing

Bing logo

Yesterday, Bing announced that they had struck a deal with Twitter and Facebook to make status updates searchable by the popular new engine. And true to the speed of the internet, the Twitter search function is now live on Bing, and can be tested here.

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Facebook Defeats Twitter

As I mentioned last week Mashable had a web faceoff where they put Twitter and Facebook up against each other in a viral knock down competition and let readers decide which social media network they prefer. While it wasn’t quite as nose to nose as a previous web faceoff they did a few weeks ago, [...]

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