If you didn’t think Facebook was serious business by now, this story from London following their recent riots should make you think again. Two young men were just sentenced to four years in prison for inciting riots on Facebook. While it may be a harsh punishment, it underscores – in very, very real terms – [...]
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Consumer Engagement and Social Media are the Same
Posted by BPMangus on August 4th, 2011
Today’s announcement that Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Marketing Director and sister to Mark, will be leaving Facebook to form her own social engagement media company adds to the building conversation that social media and consumer engagement are the same (at least for those who didn’t already know that). According to Zuckerberg, “My goal is to launch [...]
Google+ vs. Facebook… Game on.
Posted by BPMangus on July 26th, 2011
Most of you know by now that Google+ is here, and it’s here in a big way. In its first few weeks of life, Google+ has already blown by the 20 million user mark, a feat that took Facebook and Twitter each more than two years to pass. Hey, Google is big, so by virtue [...]
Restaurant Chains Rejoice
Posted by BPMangus on July 22nd, 2011
Facebook Places will be a tremendous new tool for restaurants across the nation, but, according to a recent interview in Restaurant News with Scott Gulbransen, Applebee’s director of social media and digital content, large chains will likely benefit the most. The full interview is below: The Facebook Places update seems to present a tradeoff to [...]
Posted in Digital & Web, Following the Leaders, Social Media 
Tags: Applebees, Business, Facebook, Social media 
No Comments »Social Media Spending: Up, Up and Away
Posted by BPMangus on July 18th, 2011
As of this past May, social media advertising spending reports for the coming years predicted the social media ad spend to rocket from $2.1 billion in 2010 to $8.3 billion by 2015. If that’s a big surprise, you must have also missed the fact that there are well over 500 million users on Facebook alone. [...]
Facebook Ads – The Web’s Top Gun
Posted by BPMangus on July 7th, 2011
For those following the “News of the Web,” the announcement that Facebook now accounts for nearly 1 in 3 online display ads should come as no surprise. While it’s quite a feat for a Web property not yet eight years old, it’s 500 million plus users and over $2 billion in revenue make it the [...]
Posted in Digital & Web, Following the Leaders, Social Media Tags: Advertising, Facebook, Marketing, Online Advertising, Social media No Comments »
