Archive for tag 'technology'
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More people now get their news online
It's official. For the first time ever, more people are now getting their news online rather than from newspapers. That's according to landmark research by the Poynter Institute in America, which has found that as of the end of 2010, more people in the US were accessing news via the Internet than from the printed broadsheets or tabloids. What's even more interesting is that more ad dollars went to online outlets than to newspapers too...
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Is social media killing the recruitment industry?
There was a time, not so long ago, when businesses always employed recruitment agencies to find quality candidates and the candidates always used recruitment agencies to find decent jobs. Since the explosion of social media, it seems that things are changing. The recruitment industry, apparently worth over £19.7 billion here in the UK, is feeling the effects of the growing popularity of 'social recruiting'. This being more and more employers and company bosses using social media instead of consultants to find people to recruit...
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Why people use the Internet
The Internet. We just can't live without it can we! And to think just 14 years ago, I was one of the first students to have Internet access in my bedroom at university. Those were the days when you had to make three trips back and forth from the car to unload your personal computer; Excite was my search engine of choice and message boards were the only social media we had to network and communicate online...
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Google Launches Instant Results
It's already old news if you're a complete and utter web geek, but Google has launched 'instant search', saving us two to five seconds per search. Yes that's right! A whole five seconds saved. The new feature, created in its Google Labs and called Google Instant, is the latest big reveal from the globe's leading search engine. The idea is that our searching experience will be greatly enhanced, giving us faster results without having to wait until we hit 'enter'. Here's a video explaining a little bit more about how it all works...
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How technology has transformed PR & Marketing
I turned 32 this month. Does that make me Old? Maybe not quite, but it got me thinking about the past and how I used to say 'I wonder where I'll be when I'm 32 in 2010?' Back when I was...
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Twitter set to unveil advertising plans
Well we knew it was coming. Twitter couldn't survive for much longer without some form of sponsorship or funding. And advertising was the only natural next step to turn its overwhelming popularity into revenue...