Happy 80th Birthday Mickey Mouse!!
“I hope that we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a Mouse.” – Walt Disney. We remember these famous words on 80th Mickey Mouse birthday. On this day 80 years ago, the scrawny little mouse broke onto the scene with his first film Steam Boat Willie, On November 18, 1928 Mickey’s debut was showcased in a colony theater in New York City. It was a great hit and thus the date was officially declared to be Mickey Mouse’s birthday. The image of a mouse came...
Read MorecomScore Releases September 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings
Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property with 144.2 million unique viewers. Yahoo! Sites captured the #2 spot with 54.4 million viewers, followed by Facebook.com with 52.2 million viewers. Microsoft Sites jumped 3 positions in September, securing fourth place with 45.5 million viewers. Google Sites had the highest number of overall viewing sessions with 1.9 billion and...
Read MoreSocial Networking by People 50+ Doubles in One Year Pew Research Reports
A new Internet & American Life Project by the Pew Research Center reveals that social networking use among Internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled from 22 percent in April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Social networking use among Internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88 percent over the past year, from 25 percent in April 2009 to 47 percent in May of 2010. During the same period, use among those 65 and...
Read MoreKing James and How He Leveraged Twitter …
Tweet What can business owners learn from LeBron James? Any thoughts on what the most active water cooler buzz was about recently? World events? Global warming? The BP oil debacle? Not so much … Arguably the biggest question on the tip of everybody’s tongue was where NBA all star LeBron James would end up? While the rest of the NBA’s free agents had their people release their future plans to the media, LeBron took an unusual and heretofore untried marketing approach. Keeping his...
Read MoreGrass Roots Social Media Initiative To Save The Kansas City Folgers Plant
Horrors! The delicious smell of roasting coffee as you walk or drive anywhere near Broadway in the heart of down town Kansas City is about to be stanched for ever! Since 1908 the aroma that has been delighting passers-by, its caffeinated tendrils wafting passed the noses and awakening the senses of Kansas Citians for more than a hundred years is about to be snuffed out by parent company, J.M. Smucker Co. According to an article in the Kansas City Star, Folgers Coffee Co. will close its longtime...
Read MoreTwitter Turns Tuesday Into Testing and Tweaking Time
Twitter, the micro-blogging service and social media company founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone among others, has seen steady growth month over month and a combined growth over the past year of 294.26%. So, if you are a social media networking site with 23 million unique visitors, what do you do to attract a revenue stream and more users? Apparently, spend a day testing out some new features and updates. And that is just what they spent today doing. Twitter spent Tuesday doing...
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