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The Fractured Web Community Impacts Marketing Focus

November 10th, 2008

A small group of people drive most online conversations.  What does this implicate for crowdsourcing and conversation with customers?

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Article excerpt:  Rubicon Consulting’s web practice team recently conducted a broad survey of US web users to understand better how people in the US use the web, with a special focus on web community and its [...]

Mom Bloggers Fuel Online Brand Talk

November 4th, 2008

This article fuels our findings: moms like to talk about products, and they trust brands who treat them right.

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Article excerpt:  Many are open to direct contact from brands. More than three-quarters of mothers who blog in the US review products, according to recently released data from Mom Central Consulting.  The company also found that [...]

Why Marketers Love Small Social Networks

May 5th, 2008

50% of US adults will use social networks by 2011 (actually, the numbers may already be that big), but the challenge is finding the right places and the right ways to connect with them.

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Article excerpt:  Marketers who think bigger is better may want to reconsider, at least when it comes to social media. Ad [...]

Users Demand Expertise at How-To Web Sites

May 5th, 2008

Is wisdom of the crowds dead?  Will users start turning away from “amateur” generated content?

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Article excerpt:  If the Internet can make anyone a star, can it turn Barnes & Noble into one, too? The bookseller has taken another step beyond its traditional business into the online publishing world, recently introducing Quamut.com, a site that [...]

On the Internet, It’s All About ‘My’

April 29th, 2008

Is “My” the “I” or “e” or “.com” when every company decided it needed to put these prefixes in front of their names and products to prove they were hip?

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Article excerpt:  IT’S not you, it’s me. Actually, on the Internet, it’s “my.” The Web is awash in sites that begin with that most personal [...]