- An interesting story appearing in the Silicon Valley Business Journal highlights a growing trend of increased social media spending, particularly with LinkedIn. A study from the University of Massachusetts also noted that it appeared that fast growing companies are spending less on Facebook. For more on this story, please visit http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/28/fastest-growing-companies-flock-to.html
- Brandwatch has issued a new report - The Twitter Landscape: 2013 - which focused on 10,000 tweets from 1,000 randomly selected companies and then segmented, sliced and diced the data in every way imaginable. The result is their report which can be downloaded at http://www.brandwatch.com/twitter-landscape/. For more information on this story, please visit http://www.dazeinfo.com/2013/03/01/twitter-business-strategies-for-2013-report/
- Japanese carrier DoCoMo recently launched a yellow pages for Twitter called "Twitter Local Yellow Pages", which offers aggregation of popular Twitter accounts based on subject. For more information on this story please visit http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237249/DoCoMo_launches_Twitter_based_Yellow_Pages?taxonomyId=18
- According to a recent study of recruiters in North America, 98% of recruiting professionals made use of social media to "find talent" in 2012. Pretty big number! For more information on this story, please visit http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Tech/124343_Recruiters_Rely_More_on_Social_Media_for_Talent/