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Social Networking, Bing, Web Analytics, and Sex

July 13, 2009
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by Janine Y. Swenson
According to a recent study published on Advertising Age digital, everything someone does or doesn’t do while Social Networking online says something about him or her, not from what they are communicating, but rather through which platform they choose to do it. There are so many ways to network; I was curious how the method used could define someone? Let’s face it; social networking is life! People have been networking socially with each other long before some visually artistic cave woman, with limited spatial depth perception; chose to carve the first pictorial of fire on a cave wall telling her mate to turn up the heat–”its cold in here!”

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A Walk Around the Digital Marketing Block

June 22, 2009

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by Janine Y. Swenson
I was early to the event, so I chose to walk around my old neighborhood, south of Washington Square Park in New York City. I feared the neighborhood when I first moved in almost 29 years ago, viewed it as unmanageable, but it now seemed open, welcoming, and easy to navigate. How unfortunate that what I know now, I didn’t know then. I could have taken advantage of so many things. I liken that experience to how many marketing managers of small, medium, and even large businesses view the Internet today. What they see as frightening, unfamiliar, and unmanageable could be a welcoming, easily-navigated direct link to their existing and new customers.

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