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

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve spent some time over the last week judging the finalists in BtoB magazine’s annual social media awards. Blogs may be declining in importance in the consumer realm as Facebook and Twitter grow in popularity, but they are still the most valued social platforms for B2B marketers as evidenced by recent research (see p.

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Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I entered the room late, but figured I could quickly catch up on the proceedings by checking the Twitter stream of attendees. A large percentage of them are still actively blocking employee access to sites like Facebook and YouTube. To my surprise, not a single tweet had been logged during the past hour. Playing pays off.

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