Paul Gillin

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ComScore Data Illustrates But Also Obfuscates

Paul Gillin

That’s pretty lame, considering that YouTube has had its own social networking layer for years and that the previous social layer on top of Gmail – Google Buzz – went nowhere. The low number for Twitter is so misleading that it should be asterisked. Also, only about 20% of Twitter activity actually occurs on Twitter.com.

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Not Dead Yet: Blogging’s Popularity Surges Among F500

Paul Gillin

” In the past year, the Fortune 500 have increased their adoption of blogging by 6%, their use of Twitter for corporate communications by 4% and their use of Facebook pages by 4%. Sixty-nine percent of the 2013 Fortune 500 use YouTube, an increase of 7% from 2012. This represents a 4% increase since 2012.

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Social Marketing Wisdom from the Insurance Industry – Really

Paul Gillin

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. The insurance company’s YouTube channel has had more than five million views, many for its TV commercials. YouTube has been one of its early successes. “We

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Multimedia & Web

Paul Gillin

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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When Bad News is Good

Paul Gillin

Twitter is recording about 10 tweets per minute mentioning the author’s name. YouTube views are over 1 million. As of this moment, his book is the top seller on Amazon. The story on BuzzFeed (linked to above) is approaching 4 million views and nearly 6,000 comments have been posted to the coverage on Huffington Post.

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

Paul Gillin

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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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

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.