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TheCUBE is Traveling Tech TV

Paul Gillin

The interviews are streamed live online and archived on the SiliconANGLE Network channel on YouTube. They touch down at the site of a technology conference, stake out a couple of hundred square feet of floor space and start pulling in speakers and attendees for interviews.

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ComScore Data Illustrates But Also Obfuscates

Paul Gillin

This graphic, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday , says a whole lot about Facebook’s success and Google+ ‘s struggles, but it’s an incomplete picture of the true value of social networks. A spokesman quoted in the story protests that Google+ is simply a social networking layer on top of other services.

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Social Marketing Wisdom from the Insurance Industry – Really

Paul Gillin

The insurance company’s YouTube channel has had more than five million views, many for its TV commercials. Theresa Kaskey ( @TheresaKaskey ), Director of Brand Management and Strategy at the John Hancock Financial Network, joined the company without any plans to get involved in social media. million likes, it’s doing pretty well.

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My New Book, ‘Attack of the Customers,’ is now available

Paul Gillin

Just last week a woman who claimed she had been victimized in a contract dispute with a big Canadian retailer took her cause to YouTube and Facebook. With YouTube views averaging about 25,000 per day, her story caught the eye of mainstream media, which is usually the turning point at which things happen.

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Not Dead Yet: Blogging’s Popularity Surges Among F500

Paul Gillin

Sixty-nine percent of the 2013 Fortune 500 use YouTube, an increase of 7% from 2012. blogging corporate Facebook Research Social Media social networks' These was among the key findings of the latest benchmarking study conducted by Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., This year that number has dropped to eighty-four companies (17%).

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Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules

Paul Gillin

This Is despite the fact that numerous surveys have shown that Facebook is one of the least effective social networks for B2B marketing. 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.

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Gordon Gekko is So Last Century

Paul Gillin

Social networks are transforming the way we work (whether the IT organization blocks them or not). I wish the IT organizations that still block Facebook and YouTube would get the message: Socializing has always been part of the workplace and is essential to worker satisfaction. Comment: Note the “satisfied” qualifier.