Thursday, September 9, 2010

Is Facebook Sucking Up Your Life?

August 4, 2010 by Ann Liu  
Filed under News & Alert

ShareNo, I don’t think so, I think the most cor­rect way to put might be face­book could very well be suck­ing up the time you spend on the Inter­net. Accord­ing to its 2010 “What Amer­i­cans Do Online” report, Nielse­nar­ti­cle found that Amer­i­cans spend 22.7 per­cent of Inter­net time on social net­works. That’s up 43 percent […]

Mobile Content Usage on Increase is Good for Bloggers

July 12, 2010 by Ann Liu  
Filed under News & Alert

ShareCom­score recently released data from the com­Score MobiLens ser­vice about key trends in the U.S. mobile phone indus­try dur­ing the three month aver­age period end­ing May 2010 com­pared to the pre­ced­ing three-month aver­age. The per­cent­age towards user browsers, access­ing of social net­work­ing sites and blogs are increased – between 2.3 and 2.6% respec­tively that in […]

Can Information Technology Make People Happier?

May 15, 2010 by Ann Liu  
Filed under News & Alert

ShareIn gen­eral, men are stereo­typed as gad­get hounds, well, a global study from BCS, The Char­tered Insti­tute for IT, shows that infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy actu­ally brings more hap­pi­ness to women world­wide, and said access to infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy has a ‘sta­tis­ti­cally sig­nif­i­cant, pos­i­tive impact on life sat­is­fac­tion’. A new study (PDF) from UK-based BCS that based on […]

Social Activities Blur Personal and Professional

March 14, 2010 by Ann Liu  
Filed under Business, Marketing

Share­So­cial media usage has soared not just among the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion but also among at-work Inter­net users, who are head­ing to the sites for both per­sonal and pro­fes­sional rea­sons in greater num­bers. In recent sur­vey Face­Time Com­mu­ni­ca­tion showed social media and Web 2.0 appli­ca­tions have been adopted by 99% of end users to sup­port business […]

Are You Google Buzz Too?

February 12, 2010 by Ann Liu  
Filed under News & Alert

ShareWhen I login to my gmail account yes­ter­day, a big screen pop up, wow, Google Buzz! Fol­low by its instruc­tion, I learn that Google has add social-networking fea­tures into Gmail as it attempts to jump-start its social Web strat­egy. Actu­ally they are mar­ry­ing the Gmail Web inter­face with sta­tus updates and media-sharing tech­nol­ogy in an […]

Are You Investing in a SMM Campaign?

January 18, 2010 by Ann Liu  
Filed under Social Media Marketing

Share­For many busi­ness own­ers and career pro­fes­sion­als, I know you’ve already begun inte­grat­ing social media mar­ket­ing into your mix. But for a LOT of oth­ers — there’s been a hold, or a tip-toe approach. Cur­rently, there are 581 Mil­lion cus­tomers using social media – a num­ber that’s grow­ing every day. How will your busi­ness reach […]

Where are You Stand in the Social Technology Adoption Curve

January 7, 2010 by Ann Liu  
Filed under Business

ShareWeb 2.0 and social net­works have gained per­cep­ti­ble mind­-share in past years, espe­cially in year 2009. As many of you may know — social net­works sig­nif­i­cantly reduce the cost of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and rela­tion­ship build­ing. With social tech­nol­ogy into the place, today, it is pos­si­ble to get a person’s pro­fes­sional back­ground in detail, as well as […]

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