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Search, Social and Swag

Posted by Karen Webster on 22 October 2009

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Lots of people have been talking about social sites cannibalizing search. I've addressed this in a prior post since it comes up a lot. eMarketer published a report today that has two interesting findings. First, Google, Bing and Yahoo have little to worry about. They still represent nearly all (like 97.8%) of the search traffic out there. No big surprise, but, here's the interesting part, those who "search" via social networks are often more loyal customers to the sites that are referred by them.

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What Social Networking Means for Business and What the Future Holds

Posted by Karen Webster on 14 October 2009

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I was part of an interesting panel discussion on Saturday on what social networking means for business and what the future holds. This panel was part of the Harvard Business School’s African American Alumni Associations Annual Leadership Summit and included Kevin Colleran from Facebook, Laela Sturdy from YouTube/Google, Julitte Powell, entrepreneur and author of 33 Million People in the Room and myself as panelists. We covered a lot of territory in the 90 minutes we had to interact with each other and those who attended the session. Here are a few of the more interesting issues that we discussed.

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