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Food Bloggers Cook up Big Business

Club Med is putting together a week-long conference that will gather together popular food writers and bloggers - to mingle, network and share tricks of the trade - but that also will be open to other guests and members of the public who pay a hefty fee to stay at the resort during the conference and hob-nob with their favorite foodies. The event, "Food Blogger Camp by Club Med," is part of a growing movement by companies to bring together influent  [...]

Facebook App Lets Page Admins Host Live Video

This week Justin.tv launched "Live," an application that enables Facebook Page administrators to create a streaming video tab. The app features a Facebook live stream on one side, enabling watchers to chat, update their status for other viewers to see, and view friends that are also watching the content. It is positioned as useful for companies or public figures that wish to stream live footage -- and host conversation -- on their Facebook Pages,   [...]

Employees Want to 'Talk Back' to Companies

Nearly three-fourths (71%) of US communications and human resources professionals in a recent survey are getting the right amount of information about the current state of their company during the recession, but many would like more opportunities to use social media and have face-to-face communications with company leaders, according to a survey by   [...]

LinkedIn, Sage Ink Engagement-Building Promo Deal

UK-based tech firm Sage has inked a partnership with LinkedIn to promote its ongoing Business Brains campaign. TrainYourBusinessBrain.com subtly promotes Sage's business services and software offerings while streaming video interviews from "business brains," such as Yo! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe, and material from the Krypton Factor. Five mental agility tests also give users their "business IQ." The site will be promoted across certain p  [...]

Trends in Leadership Conferences: Fewer Keynotes, More Tweeting

Two-thirds (62%) of global conference organizers say the demand for executive conferences increased in the past three years. 46% claim it is still growing despite the recession, according to a survey by Weber Shandwick (  [...]

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SanDisk Uses Social Channels to Push Cyber Monday Sale

Data storage firm SanDisk enlisted Cohn & Wolf to promote a three-day sale across social networks. Sale items include MP3 players, Flash memory cards and USB drives, for example. Instead of advertising with ads and flyers, SanDisk hopes to "reach consumers in an engaging way," reports ClickZ. Using social media instead of ad buys also made the effort a lot cheaper, a SanDisk spokesman admitted. Calling it a "seeding campaign," Cohn  [...]

News Releases Not Just for Press, Serve Wide Variety of Functions

Press releases have historically been used by PR professionals to attract the attention of journalists and media outlets, but today's online news releases are now used by many types of marketers and small-business owners seeking to reach bloggers and customers, improve SEO results and drive website traffic, according to a  [...]

Journos Use New Media More than PR Pros Think

Getting real-time, 24/7 online access to company news and reaching responsive and efficient PR representatives still rate high on journalists' wish-lists. However, reporters increasingly source stories from new forms of media as well, according to research from Bulldog Reporter and TEKgroup International, Inc, MarketingCharts   [...]

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Most Online Media Outlets Use Video to Cover News

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of "web influencers" at media outlets with an online presence say their organizations use video in online coverage of news stories, and 77% believe the use of online video will increase over time, according to a survey by D S Simon Productions, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]

Video-Sharing Added to Google Apps Premier

Google has added video-sharing to Google Apps Premier, a suite of online productivity and management tools that directly target Microsoft Office marketshare. To give users a sense of how Google itself uses video internally, the Googleblog -- which released the news -- posted the following video demonstr  [...]

Journalist Views on Social Media's Influence on Reporting Differ by Beat

Journalists actively read and create online content, but their level of engagement varies by beat. And political reporters lead the pack, according to a new study of North American journalists' views of social media, particularly blogs, MarketingCharts reports. The study from Brodeur and   [...]

Break Media Spearheads Launch of Online Video Industry Coalition

Break Media has announced plans to launch an industry group for promoting the efficacy of online video advertising. The coalition shall include agencies, technology providers and online video companies. The Online Video Advertising ROI Council will also contribute research and education on video advertising. Ogilvy One, truTV, AT&T, the National Geographic Channel, AT&T, and Initiative Media will serve as charter members alongside Break Media, among myriad others. The group will gather   [...]

Google Publishes Whiplash Reaction to Microsoft/Yahoo Bid, Microsoft Snaps Back

The Googleblog has published insights on Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo, which was announced Friday. "The openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible," wrote SVP David Drummond of corporate development at Google. "Microsoft's hostile bid [...] is about more than simply a financial transaction. [...] It's about preserving the underly  [...]

European Alliance Adds Four to Tackle Email Deliverability

Return Path, an email services firm, has added Splio Developpement, The Communicator Corp, IPT and Responsys to its Sender Score Receiver Alliance. The group hopes to tackle European email deliverability challenges, one region at a time. It also hopes to build unifying standards in the sector, reports DM News. "The program is focused on working with e-mail service providers to help educate them abou  [...]

B2B Journalists: Blogs Increasingly Make Legit Primary, Secondary Sources

More than eight in 10 business journalists (84 percent) say they have used or would use blogs as primary or secondary sources for articles, according to the 2007 Arketi Web Watch Survey: Inside B-to-B Media Usage of Web 2.0 by Arketi Group, reports MarketingCharts. Shortcuts to charts refe  [...]

Mansueto Launches B2B Network for Private Ventures

Mansueto Digital has just launched IncBizNet.com, a networking site and database specifically for privately-held companies. Mansueto is the online arm of Fast Company and Inc. magazines. IncBizNet is positioned as a directory for private companies based in the United States. Data will be provided, trimmed and hedged by the companies themselves. Special hosted business tools include: A press release newswire Co  [...]

Google News to Host Content from Major Media Services

The Associated Press reports that Google has begun hosting AP-produced news, as well as the content of three other major news services. By hosting the stories and photographs proffered by other news sites, Google no longer has to send users to other destinations in order to read complete versions of a story. Other news organizations included in the deal include the UK's Press Association, Agence  [...]

Communications Spend to Reach $1 Trillion in '08; Internet to Surpass All Ad Segments in 2011

Total communications spending increased 6.8 percent to a record $885.2 billion in 2006, having expanded at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9 percent from 2001 to 2006 (and exceeding GDP growth in both periods), according to exclusive data released today by Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), MarketingCharts   [...]

J&J Shifts More Budget to Digital

Johnson & Johnson is quietly shifting larger parts of its marketing budget from traditional to digital media. And for the second year in a row, it has announced that it will sit out the TV upfront, according to Ad Age. J&J's measured-media spending plunged $250 million, or 22 percent, in the U.S. last year, to $1 billion - pretty much in line with a forecast that the consume  [...]

JetBlue CEO Neeleman Issues Video Apology via YouTube

Addressing the operational problems that his airline faced last week head-on, JetBlue CEO David Neeleman has taken an apology to his customers in their space: YouTube. The move marks one of the first times that the CEO of a major company has used social media in crisis management, ClickZ reports. In the video, Neeleman addresses how his airline will co  [...]