Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Leveraging Internet Memes to Promote Your Company – Harlem Shake Edition

It’s no secret that there’s a talent war in Silicon Valley, and an increasing number of companies in the Bay Area specifically point out that one of biggest problems is recruiting and keeping “A” talent. Startups have more cash than ever to increase salaries, up benefits and even bring in superstars for company-only activities — [...]

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Bateman Group 2012 Predictions

To say that 2011 was a big year for the media, technology and PR industries would be a huge understatement. We saw LinkedIn’s IPO, the firing of Michael Arrington from TechCrunch, the firing of Carol Bartz from Yahoo!, the launch of Google+, the unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs and much, much more. Here are some [...]

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Will Social Media Fatigue Kill Google+?

Now a little over a month since the launch of Google+ and the most buzzed about online service already has 25 million users, estimates ComScore. These stats mean Google+ is growing faster than Facebook and MySpace did in the early days. Further, according to a new survey from Bloomberg/YouGov, Google+ is on track to claim [...]

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Does Google+ hold the keys to the new social media kingdom?

I was a little bit disappointed that I dropped the ball on getting a Google+ invite on the day of the launch, but was finally granted access to the site yesterday around 5:00 p.m. and have been tinkering with it ever since. I still don’t quite know what exactly the site is trying to do [...]

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Oh, what a tangled Web…

Bateman Group’s Lisa Melsted comments on Facebook hiring Burson-Marsteller to start a whisper campaign about Google and their privacy problems and the subsequent mutual fingerpointing after it was exposed.

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Bateman Buzz Meter – 3rd Edition

Bateman Buzz Meter, Third Edition, December 2009.

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