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Month: January 2013

We must remeber all #genocides

Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I’d like that this day will be renamed as International Genocides Remembrance Day. In a large part of the world, even if media don’t tell about them, there are actually an uncountable number of ethnic killings (Somalia, Darfur, Syria are probably the most known). Take a look at GenocideWatch.org WE MUST REMEMBER

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Linkedin Answer to be taken down

Starting from 31st January LinkedIN Answer will be dismissed. LinkedIN announced via email few days ago.I think LinkedIN is having problem in defining social networking model. They are exploring ways to keep people more on the network, but with a no real scenario and model in mind. The only working usage seems to be the recruiting tool, less the business networking. Also it seems that Facebook could catch up Linkedin as professional tool, because it permits a more personal interaction. According to you, which are the weaknesses of LinkedIN?  

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2012 in Blogging

WordPress wish you a happy new year with a funny and useful gift. İf you have a wordpress self-hosted blog and you are using jetpack site stats, in these days you will find a nice suprise. Jetpack, indeed, should have summarized your 2012 blogging stats in a animated infographic. Accessing to Dashboard > Jetpack > Site stats from your wordpress admin panel, on the top page – just above the graph – you wll find the alert message: “Check out the fireworks you created on your 2012 Annual Report.”     The report will show data starting from the day you have connected the blog to JectPack. You can decide to keep it private or make it public. I decided to share with you my 2012 🙂

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Leads in the networking process

In last days, it has been occurring to me to talk about lead generation with different professionals. I found out that many of them didn’t know what lead generation is, often confusing “prospect” and “lead”. We refers to “Lead” and “lead generation” as “term used, […], to describe the generation of consumer interest or inquiry into products or services of a business” [Wikipedia]. A lead is other than a prospect. While a prospect is someone who is interested in our products and  who contacted us for a specific commercial purpose, we can define a lead as a person gererically interested in our business. Chronologically, a lead is the first step of a prospect. Within networking activity a lead is an evolution of a contact. Not all contacts are potential leads. A contact is a person we could have met occasionally and who we would have been exchanging business cards with. This contact will become a lead once we would have engaged and made him/her to want to know more about our business. While a contact is an opportunity of visibility, a lead will appear once we’ve moved to a relationship level. Do you track lead generation in your business ? How are you doing?

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DUBAI’s newspaper talking about EXPO 2020 On-Line Competition Report

7DaysInDubai.com, a Dubai’s newspaper owned by british The Daily Mail News, talks about EXPO 2020 On-Line Competition Report. Dubai has outdone its Expo 2020 rivals on the web, according to a report released by an independent consultant. Turkey-based social media specialist Simone Favaro, who conducted research on ‘How candidates use the web for internationalisation’, found that the emirate has the best virtual positioning of all cities bidding to host the Expo. “Dubai is the most active online with the highest rank on search engine, the largest number of fans and followers on facebook and Twitter,” revealed Favaro. Favaro said websites and YouTube are the most common tactics used by the candidates to showcase their Expo 2020 credentials, followed by facebook and Twitter. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates’ respective internet strategies, Favaro said: “Izmir [Turkey] registered the highest social links popularity and YouTube viewers. Brazil has no official facebook and Twitter accounts. Russia and Thailand are using the social networks but with low total amount of fans and followers.” He also revealed that the UAE and Turkey were the only countries to use their websites to drive programmes aimed at engaging visitors. “Only Dubai and Izmir have on-line ambassador programmes,” Favaro said. The UAE’s bid has the theme ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’. If the bid is successful, the UAE would become the first country in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region to hold a World Expo. As many as 25 million visitors count to stream into the emirate for the event. Sources: http://www.7daysindubai.com/Dubai-s-Expo-online-campaign-strongest-2020/story-17808024-detail/story.html http://www.zawya.com/story/Dubais_Expo_online_campaign_strongest_of_all_2020_competitors-ZAWYA20130110050804/  

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