Entries by The Strategy Web

News Update – Best of the Day

Three examples how to use social media for medical needs and purposes… UNICEF – The association are running a campaign to raise money to eliminate a preventable disease that kills a child every three minutes: newborn tetanus. Physicians – See this presentation on how physicians use social media in medicine (US example). Medicine 3.0 25 […]

News Update – Best of the Day

For top management there is a significant change in how to run a successful company – not only because social media turns the world upside down. On his blog, Gary Hamel, Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School, gives some insight in a two-day work-shop of top managers and what […]

Why Apple could buy Twitter

This is just some thoughts creeping up my neck… Based on … … the development of technology convergence of markets for a full-fledged digital value chain … … an imaginary 5-year marketing and media reach spending projection … … knowing that iphone user love Twitter and offer a great target group … And then the […]

News Update – Best of the Day

Social networking is a challenge. If you need some inspiration, read the 12 stories by David Spark, and you know how to continue and professionalize your social networking efforts. Did you know that web 2.0 is over? No, check it out at Geek and Poke… Do you need extraordinary emoticons for your mails? Well, according […]

Study: Twitter used as a learning tool – not for ego-boosting

According to a recent study by the research firm MarketingProfs in early and mid-April, the main intention to use Twitter is learning in more or less real-time, then comes social networking benefit or pushing the ‘digital ego’. The results of the study revealed that almost… – 100% of the respondents said they value “getting information […]

News Update – Best of the Day

Companies still don’t know whether to ignore Twitter or being aware of a Twitterstorm might save the brand’s value. David Sarno and Alana Semuels show good cases why major brands learn they’d better respond quick – focussing on Amazon, Skittles, Domino, Coca-Cola and Hasbro. How to explain the social web to your parents? Obviously, all […]

Internet keine Konkurrenz für klassischen Journalismus

Eine aktuelle Studie des Instituts für Kommunikationswissenschaft der Universität Münster besagt, daß das Internet für den Journalismus mehr als Ergänzung denn als Mitbewerb oder Konkurrenz gesehen werden muss. Im Rahmen der Studie wurden 183 Internetredaktionen aus Deutschland interviewt, womit sich 44% aller ermittelten Redaktionen an der Erhebung beteiligt haben (nach vorheriger inhaltsanalytischer Auswertung von rund […]

UK: Internet users love browsing social media – less shopping

A recent study by Hitwise reveales that UK Internet users are spending more time browsing online media than ‘going’ online shopping. In March 2009 9.8% of all UK Internet visits were directed to social networking websites and 8.6% to online retail websites. Compared to 2008, the figures turned around (online retailers 9.7% – social networks […]