Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Continuing on my post from two weeks ago about my favorite PC productivity tools, here’s another list of goodies. 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.

Skype 50

Skype Product RSS Copyright 50

Paul Gillin

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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.

Paid Search Agency 50

Paid Search Agency Word of Mouth Amazon Viral Marketing 50

Paul Gillin

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

IBM engineers celebrate Watson's victory (from an IBM YouTube video). This was documented in more than 30 videos that IBM posted on YouTube as well as chat sessions and group Q&A interviews on the website reddit.com. Researchers reacted as if their child had just graduated from Harvard. Their passion was contagious and genuine.

Trade Show 50

Trade Show Youtube Statistics Social Media 50

Paul Gillin

JUNE 29, 2013

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. If they continue to build better products at lower cost than we do, we should pay attention to that. Comment: Note the “satisfied” qualifier.

Social Media 50

Social Media Internet Marketing Facebook Class 50

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.

Facebook 50

Facebook B2B Marketing Rules Salesforce.com 50

Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. Your postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors on external blogs, wikis, discussion forums, micro-blogs (e.g., Twitter, social networking sites). sato @ oracle.

Social Media 50

Social Media Copyright Media Wiki 50

Paul Gillin

JULY 8, 2010

Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. Your postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors on external blogs, wikis, discussion forums, micro-blogs . Twitter, social networking sites).

Social Media 50

Social Media Media Copyright B to B 50