With a growing number of Irish businesses using social media, the need to develop strategies for which channels to use and how has become critical, according to the latest issue of the State of the Net quarterly bulletin. In Ireland the user base of Twitter has reached a critical mass, Facebook's active user base has quadrupled to 1.6 million people in ...
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Back to contents of State of the Net issue 16 This year’s IIA Congress will have a dual focus: what’s good in 2010 and what’s possible for 2020. It will critically assess the next wave of opportunities for the industry, as well as more immediate benefits for businesses in terms of improving their processes, productivity and profitability. The Congress will see the ...
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Journalism in the Internet era is about collaborating with users and about expanding the channels, not hiding content behind paywalls. So said senior Guardian executive Meg Pickard in an address today to Internet World in London. The Guardian's digital strategy differs sharply from other traditional media organisations in Ireland and elsewhere, led by Rupert Murdoch's decision to start charging for online access ...
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A few short years ago, social networking meant only one word: Bebo. But now it looks set to be consigned to the scrapheap. AOL has confirmed that it is to cut its losses with Bebo: the social-networking site will be either sold or closed down by the end of May. Two years ago AOL, then part of Time Warner, bought Bebo for ...
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A new report by O2 on the SME market highlights the growing use by Ireland's small and medium enterprises of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. O2's Ideas Room commissioned Behaviour & Attitudes to survey more than 300 owners and director-level executives of SMEs (organisations employing between one and 250 people). Among its key findings in relation to social media ...
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