Daily Digest 03/31/2009

• Internet Ad Sales Rose in ’08, but at Slower Pace

  Internet advertising rose in 2008, according to a report released Monday, but the growth is starting to flatten.

  tags: getanewbrowser, advertising

• Fargo uses social networks to fight floodwaters

  Kevin Tobosa checks out a Facebook page after he arrived to help with a dike leak along the flooding Red River Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. Tobosa established the Fargo-Moorhead Flood Volunteer Network last week to spread the word for volunteers via Facebook.

  tags: getanewbrowser, fargo, hyperlocal, socialmedia

• The Future of Twitter: Social CRM

  Twitter has two of the three key features of a CRM system
  First, let’s break down why Twitter is going to be a Social CRM, let’s start by analyzing what entails Customer Relationship Management:

  tags: getanewbrowser, twitter, crm

• Future of PR: When Agencies Represent Communities –Not Brands

  With communities in the driver seat over product, a shift will happen as communities can define the spec of future products and therefore multiple brands will bid for their business. As a result, we should expect the agency model to flip over, where PR agencies start to represent communities of customers –rather than brands.

  tags: getanewbrowser, web strategy, community

• Skype Brings Cheap Web Calling to Mobile Phones

  Skype, the Internet calling service that has more than 400 million users around the world, is aggressively moving onto mobile phones.

  The Luxembourg-based company, a division of eBay, plans to announce on Tuesday that it will make its free software available immediately for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch and, beginning in May, for various BlackBerry phones, made by Research in Motion.

  tags: getanewbrowser, skype

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