Social Media Today: A Business Community for Thinkers

28Feb10

While browsing the web earlier today, I stumbled upon a website called Social Media Today. Designed as an online community for marketers, bloggers, media professionals etc., it allows for discussion on the current and future state of social media, and the way in which social media are influencing the way people do business.

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From Cocooning to e-Cocooning

21Feb10

This week, an article published in De Standaard depicted the increasing popularity of an old phenomenon: homeparties. In Belgium only, more than 300 000 homeparties were held over the last year, the most popular remaining the legendary Tupperware parties. According to a senior manager of the Belgian Federation of Distribution Enterprises, this evolution fits perfectly [...]

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Making Money: Part II

03Feb10

A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about how the Chinese web portal Tencent is currently generating more profit than the Big Three of Social Networking (i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn and Myspace). These sites now want to increase their revenues. On Wednesday, January 27, the owners of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter met at the [...]

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