by Mark Burgess on January 24, 2012
By the end of 2012, analysts predict that Google+ will reach 400 million users. In its first 88 days the social platform’s growth rate outpaced Facebook and every other social network. Impressive, but, is it worth a small business owner’s time and energy to learn yet another social network? While Google+ is still just a fraction of the size of Facebook, its uses are already becoming apparent. Because of this, developing an understanding of the unique qualities of Google+ can help give your business a competitive edge on a new and expanding platform.
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Mark Burgess
Mark is managing partner and co-founder of Blue Focus Marketing, a social branding consultancy that helps brands realize the benefits of social media marketing. Mark is a marketing professor and expert social media blogger for AT&T Business Solutions. Mark's career spans B2B and B2C marketing, advertising, and professional services consulting. Mark led the PwC Global Web team, at McCann, headed the flagship L'Oreal and Sears accounts. At AT&T, led interactive marketing and multicultural marketing initiatives. Mark is ranked #37 in the world for Top Marketing Professors on Twitter, via Social Media Marketing Magazine. Follow me on Twitter at @mnburgess.
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by Cheryl Burgess on January 12, 2012
Forget predictions from Nostradamus or the Mayan Calendar. Now, we have companies like Recorded Future analyzing semantics and sentiments to foretell the future. They do this by sorting through thousands of news publications, blogs, tweets, comments, trade journals, government web sites, financial databases, and more. Recorded Future sees ahead “By applying temporal analytics to what is written about the future, and by algorithmically crowd-sourcing the resulting temporal information, we can draw conclusions and gain insight.” [click to continue…]
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Cheryl Burgess
Cheryl Burgess (@ckburgess) is a digital and social brand consultant, blogger, and speaker. Her knowledge of business strategy, passion for creative expression and social technology, helps businesses achieve the remarkable.
She is Co-founder, Managing Partner of Blue Focus Marketing, a social branding consultancy. She has expertise in B2B marketing, social media, business continuity and crisis management. Cheryl is an expert blogger on social media topics for AT&T Business Solutions. She was named to the Huffington Post “Passionistas” for her “great business expertise and timeless blog posts”. Cheryl was featured in Fast Company. Winner of the 2011 and 2010 Twitter Shorty Award in Marketing [The New York Times hails this as the Oscar of Twitter]. She serves on the Advisory Board of B2Community and B2BTOTY, a B2B Award for the top engaging companies on Twitter.
Cheryl is a syndicated blogger for B2Community, B2B Marketing Zone, Social Media Informer and contributing blogger for Crowdshifter.com and 12most.com. She is the co-founder of #Nifty50 Top Twitter Women and #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men. Also, a recipient of #BA75.
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