The Rise Of The Social Business

BEHOLD: THE SOCIAL CEO CEO.com 1% of CEOs aged 50 and older maintain a work-related blog daily. 22% of CEOs aged 40-49 do so. 28% of CEOs younger than 40 years old do so. 2% of CEOs aged 50 and older use Twitter daily. 15% of CEOs aged 40-49 do so. 32% of CEOs younger…

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The Varieties Of Mobile Email Behavior

MOBILE EMAIL DAYPARTING iPass 35% of global mobile workers check their email first thing in the morning before they do anything else. THOUGHT: Data from a new report by Knotice shows that mobile’s share of all email opens rises consistently from noon until 5 AM and then dropping significantly by 9 AM, the beginning of…

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What's Your Brand's Genre?

MUSIC STREAMING eMusic 53% of US online music consumers have bought music files online. 51% have bought CDs or vinyl albums. 49% stream music online for free. 42% download music files online for free. But only 13% pay to stream music online. THOUGHT: People are getting accustomed to the idea of streaming content and the…

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LinkedIn-edness

LINKEDIN’S MOST (AND LEAST) CONNECTED WORDS Dan Zarella People with the word Recruiters in their LinkedIn title or summary are 40% more connected than the average LinkedIn user. People with the word Jesus on their profile are 60% less connected than the average user. THOUGHT: I doubt it would surprise anyone who uses LinkedIn that…

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Class Of 2015

Tom McBride, the Keefer Professor of Humanities at Beloit College, discusses this year’s Mindset List for the Class of 2015, who were born in 1993.

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Holiday Spam

HAPPY SPAM DAY? Experian Email volume is up 18.4% over 2010 so far this holiday season. More than 9% of all email traffic on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday this year went to the top 500 retail sites. THOUGHT: It’s the most spam-mi-est time…of the yeeeeeearr! I’ve been deluged with email offers this holiday season,…

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Black November?

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Online sales are expected to exceed $1 billion mark that set the heaviest day of online shopping ever last year.

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