Paul Gillin

JULY 19, 2013

What is surprising is the sudden popularity of corporate blogs. After stagnating at just above 20% for three years, use of corporate blogs has shot up to 34% of the Fortune 500 in the last two years. This comes just as many of the digerati are writing off blogs as yesterday’s news. That’s nearly a 50% increase.

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Paul Gillin

AUGUST 26, 2011

The goal was to get people talking about financial stability and have a chance to win the popular board game; Hosted a Twitter chat about Halloween safety. State Farm got started in social media when it set up a blog to find New Orleans-area employees and agents who couldn’t be located after Hurricane Katrina.

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Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I use a lot of video in presentations, and have always gotten good performance from the free Foxreal YouTube FLV Downloader. It works with a lot more sites than just YouTube and cleanly downloads Flash video. You can even create collages like the one I use for my Twitter page background. Tweetdeck for Twitter is one.

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 17, 2010

In the early days of Twitter, the Dell TechCenter staff had set up a common Twitter account as a secondary channel of communication. The Twitter initiative really gained traction when Hanson became @DellServerGeek and Sullivan became @SANPenguin. It’s a camaraderie that is nurtured by personal contact.

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Paul Gillin

AUGUST 4, 2011

In a survey of marketers conducted by BtoB magazine last year , Facebook was ranked last in usefulness among the top five social networks, trailing blogs, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter, in that order. It uses apps for Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Foursquare to pull its content from other social networks into Facebook.

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Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

All blogs, wikis, forums, and social networks hosted or sponsored by Oracle (e.g., Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. Twitter, social networking sites). com ) of Oracle‘s Corporate Communications team to discuss work related blogs.

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Paul Gillin

JULY 8, 2010

All blogs, wikis, forums, and social networks hosted or sponsored by Oracle . Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. Twitter, social networking sites). Third party Web sites and blogs that you link to must meet our standards of propriety.

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