According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Read the rest of this entry »

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It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content Read the rest of this entry »

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The system of contextual advertising “Begun” reached an agreement with Yahoo! Read the rest of this entry »

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The crisis severely affected the entire media business, because of the decline in business activity, advertisers have sharply reduced their budgets. Read the rest of this entry »

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Popular social network VKontakte subjected of hacker attacks, the names and passwords of 130 thousand users were stolen and then posted on the Internet . Read the rest of this entry »

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We already knew that social media marketing budgets were on the rise, but now we know by how much. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Social Media Association has been founded in Russia as a group of experts working with social media, with the support of the Regional Public Center of Internet Technologies (ROCIT), Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEK) and Internet & Business Association (AIB). The goals of the SM Association include but are not limited to:

• interchange of experience between the leading market players;
• customer and industry advocating through developing Social Media Code of Ethics;
• promoting new approaches to PR and marketing;
• social media trainings;
• professional community building;
• developing industry standards. Read the rest of this entry »

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