Our Communications Landscape
- Twitter will soon reach 106 million registered users.
- Pleased to have played a part in successfully launching and marketing online the handmade items of the talented Sandy Millman. Her vintage and retro gift boutique was up and running in time for Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gift giving. Looking for a special or unique gift? Pay a visit to Joy of Vintage.com.
- Global gains: According to ZenithOptimedia, the London-based advertising buyer, the internet’s share of overall ad spending projects to be 17% this year. That’s a 31% increase from last year’s ad share.
- In a National Public Radio interview this afternoon, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook does not share members’ personal information with advertisers.
- Of small businesses with social media presence, 65% actively promote their businesses, notes a new survey commissioned by insurer Employers Holdings, Inc.
- The Dalai Lama is tweeting.
- Top news searches at Nonprofit Newswire last month were for press releases containing the keywords: “media” and “earth.”
- Beachwood, New Jersey and Mayor Ron Jones will honor people with disabilities by having Community Options “Option Quest” day-program participants assist in annual flower planting this Friday.
- A new Vision Critical study finds that online users are receptive to brand placement and advertising on social media, and that social marketing is particularly effective in motivating those under 35.
- A timely, ideal online identity is being offered for a nonpartisan political organization to purchase or lease. The domain or website name Independent Voter.org is being offered via Domain Names Only.
- Press release searches at Nonprofit Newswire using the keyword “women” are more frequent than searches by news media for releases containing the keyword “men.”
- Congratulations to Hanna Moosa of West Geauga High School and soon of DePaul University. Hanna is this year’s winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Philip W. Porter Scholarship, named after the long-time Plain Dealer editor and co-founder of the SPJ Cleveland chapter.
- Disabilities at Work and Community Options jointly announced a new national radio program focused on individuals with disabilities in the workplace: http://tinyurl.com/29woxys.
- Northeast Ohio Nurse Practitioners annual conference today was excellent and well-attended.
- According to a survey by the Pew Research Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the internet is now the third most popular news source for American adults, trailing local and national television stations, and more popular than radio and newspapers.
- Perhaps George Burns was thinking of social marketing when he quipped, “Look to the future, because that’s where you’ll spend the rest of your life.”
- Christian Santiago, the internet content authority, has joined Yahoo as Sr. Business Development Manager. We see continued success.
- Yahoo has signed an agreement to acquire Citizen Sports which “brings the world of sports” to fan websites and mobile devices.
- A University of Maryland survey reveals that social media usage by small businesses has doubled, increasing to 24% in 2009, up from 12% the year before.