02.08.10… Post-Super Bowl: Boost Mobile, and Focus on the Family are among organizations seeing their social media buzz rise today.
02.07.10… A new survey by Pensions & Investments finds that 51.5% of respondents are using social media and 61% expect it to be more important for their businesses this year.
02.06.10… Pepsi ends a 23-year streak of Super Bowl TV advertising, as of tomorrow, choosing instead to put its money into a new, online social campaign.
02.05.10… A 7-year-old London boy’s bicycle ride raised £200,000 in pledges for Haiti earthquake victims. His goal was £500.
02.04.10… Caribou Coffee has donated more than 13,200 pounds of coffee to local food pantries, so far this year.
02.03.10… An Internet Retailer survey of 404 web-only retailers, chain retailers, catalogers and consumer brand manufacturers finds that 66.5% now plan website redesigns in 2010.
02.02.10… The Grammys were a trending topic on Twitter the past week. Grammy TV ratings surged to the highest number of viewers since 2004.
02.01.10… An Alterian survey of 1,068 marketing pros found that 66% plan to invest in social media marketing this year, 40% of whom will move at least 20% of their traditional direct marketing budgets to social marketing.
01.31.10… According to Nielsen research, social media usage increased 82% in 2009.
01.30.10… Bill Gates on social solutions, there’s “a lot that governments, private companies, and foundations can do to accelerate” innovation, research and development.
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