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Full story: Twitter drives $6.5m global revenue for Dell, company plans to embrace the social web
News from computer maker Dell that attracted a lot of attention in the summer was their announcement that one Twitter account in the USA, the @DellOutlet handle, was responsible for driving over $3 million in sales. Today comes more such news from Dell on what Twitter is doing for the company, this time on a deeper and global scale: […] Today it’s not just Dell Outlet having success connecting with customers on Twitter. In total, Dell’s global reach on Twitter…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #507: December 7, 2009
Content summary: Neville’s at the Social Media Huddle filing reports via iPadio; Michael Netzley’s report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: social websites like Facebook are signing on to new UK standards code for children, B2B companies are more active in social media than B2C companies, small businesses plan to increase social media spending in 2010, cities and towns take to Twitter for department-level communications, Southwest Airlines scores big with a Facebook video contest, questions about withdrawing controversial videos arise…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #506: December 3, 2009
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Shel’s in Chicago and Neville’s back in the UK; Dan York reports on live video streaming Barack Obama, new TweetDeck features, DailyShoot.com, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Would you hire a "certified" social media consultant?, Coca-Cola tries facial-recognition on Facebook, SEO writing is a must-have skill, children who use technology are better writers says survey; listeners’ comments discussion and FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; Neville’s co-hosting the…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #505: November 30, 2009
Content summary: Neville’s in Las Vegas; no report this week from Michael Netzley; the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; News That Fits: Twitter inspiring more to go mobile, new research from Econsultancy shows opportunities in UK for social media, one bad tweet can cost 30 customers, more women than men use social networks says Pingdom study, have a Twitter Christmas; listener comments discussion and FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; music from Common Ground; and more. Get FIR: Download the MP3 file…











