I can't believe that The End of Business as Usual is now officially available. To celebrate, I'd like to share the words of those who helped support its launch. First up is Mark Cuban, someone whom I greatly respect and someone who has shown that vision, passion, hard work and taking risks are the keys [...]

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Author: Kipp Bodnar is Inbound Marketing Strategist at HubSpot, the inbound marketing software leader that helps businesses with lead generation and lead management and co-author of The B2B Social Media Book. When Twitter started in 2006 it was a platform for technologists to communicate with each other in a quick and easy method. Five years [...]

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I asked Jason Falls for a guest post to mark the release of his new book, "No Bulls–t Social Media" Few can argue with the umbrella point of Brian's latest book. Technology and the reclaiming of the marketplace by consumers has brought about the End of Business As Usual. Companies are collaborating internally, with customers [...]

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What's New This Week? Nearly Half of Small Businesses Use Social Media Marketing: Check out the results of this Zoomerang survey. Klout Releases New [...]

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This guest post is by Farnoosh Brock of Prolific Living. I thought I had my social media game covered on all fronts: Twitter, check. Facebook, check. Even Skype, which I like to include as a necessary tool for connecting real-time, check-check! Until I realized that I am missing one giant piece of the puzzle, and [...]

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Booz & Co. and Buddy Media just released a report titled “Campaigns to Capabilities: Social Media and Marketing” report where they surveyed managers from Fortune 100 companies and found that social media will become a higher percentage of total digital marketing budgets over  the next three years. The good news is that much of this spend will be focused on internal, social business activities.  According to the report, 65% of respondents said they have plans in place to improve and revamp so [...]

Read More: Study Reveals Huge Investments for Social Business Initiatives; Not Just Social Media

Foursquare is one of the most emblematic technology companies of our generation with over 10 million users, a $600 million valuation and 3,400% growth in the past year. It's hyper-local, social,...

Read More: This guy wrote the book on Foursquare for Business, literally.

One of the most interesting decisions Google took when it launched its cloud-focused Chromebooks was to offer them to businesses and education on a 3-year monthly payment subscription basis with...

Read More: Google drops Chromebook business, education subscription-only policy, lets them pay up front

Don't get me wrong: Facebook, as well as other social media sites, do wonders for any business wanting to gain a strong web presence. The site gives your brand loyalists somewhere to go and to feel as though they are a part of something bigger than themselves.  it also allows you to reach additional audiences [...]

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Shortly after Apple's release of its Q4 financial results, it held an earnings call and took questions. Among those asked where why Apple felt that it missed analyst markers for...

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Typically, I'm not the one to rave about a company's product in an article of mine, but this particular product deserves my full attention. vCita, a new way to engage and meet your online audience, helps enhance your business's online presence by providing you with various services: online video meeting rooms, phone conference services, online payment systems and more.

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Did you see Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman of GE, on 60 Minutes last Sunday? He's been given the jobs czar title by President Obama, with the sole charge of convincing companies to hire, and Lesley Stahl was there to understand more. Her big question…whether or not the man who has sent more jobs overseas than any [...]

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"If the current trend continues, over 70% of Fortune 1000 companies will turnover from 2003 to 2013." – FORBES Today's biggest trends—the mobile web, social media, real-time—have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex digital revolution and its impact on the future of business, media, and culture. More [...]

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There has been a lot of advanced conversation around the topic of 'Social Business' and it is gaining momentum because more large organizations are striving to put social at the core of their business. On Friday, September 23rd, Kat Mandelstein, who leads global marketing at IBM shared an excellent case study with Social Media Masters NYC attendees on how IBM has integrated social and the positive impacts.  Most importantly, Kat noted why IBM moved toward becoming a more social bu [...]

Read More: Case Study: How IBM Does Social Business

There has been a lot of advanced conversation around the topic of 'Social Business' and it is gaining momentum because more large organizations are striving to put social at the core of their business. On Friday, September 23rd, Kat Mandelstein, who leads global marketing at IBM shared an excellent case study with Social Media Masters NYC attendees on how IBM has integrated social and the positive impacts.  Most importantly, Kat noted why IBM moved toward becoming a more social bu [...]

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  This guest post is written by Molli Megasko Yes, it's another Facebook post. But don’t roll your eyes yet (Howie!). I’m not going to talk about the user changes, I’m here to discuss the free ads Facebook is giving to small business. This January, Facebook is planning to give away $50 in free advertising to [...]

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If you've been following the UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) ‘porn debate' over the past 24-hours, you may be a little confused as to what exactly is happening. Well here's...

Read More: Business as usual: The UK ISP ‘porn opt-in’ debacle is a big hoo-ha over nothing

If you've been following the UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) ‘porn debate' over the past 24-hours, you may be a little confused as to what exactly is happening. Well here's the short answer – not a great deal. One of the early reports in yesterday's Guardian newspaper seemed quite adamant that subscribers to the top [...]

Read More: Business as usual: The UK ISP ‘porn opt-in’ debacle is a big hoo-ha over nothing

Mere weeks after announcing that its DVD rental business would be spun off under the name Qwikster, Netflix has today announced that it's backtracking on the decision. In a blog post today, CEO Reed Hastings says "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are [...]

Read More: Netflix isn’t spinning its DVD business off as Qwikster after all

Mere weeks after announcing that its DVD rental business would be spun off under the name Qwikster, Netflix has today announced that it's backtracking on the decision. In a blog...

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