As more people turn to the internet and social media for political information and answers, what role does social media play in the election process? More importantly, can we believe claims that social media can predict the presidential elections?
Experts claim that social media has become the main media source for hundreds of millions of people all over the world. From Facebook to Twitter, SOPA to ACTA, millions of engaged online citizens have had their voices aired on the Internet that if the Internet were a nation, it would exceed the Americas, Europe and the Middle East in combined population.
Despite growing public concern, companies such as Google and Facebook continue to demonstrate an insatiable desire to gather and market our personal information to advertisers. Today, these companies are even able to manage our online identities by creating the equivalent of an ID card for the Internet.
With the advent of the Internet, major movie and record studios have been demanding extensions to copyright laws in order to preserve outdated business models. But copyright law can do little to protect them and they need to move with the times and embrace the new technologies.
Almost all of us use social networking sites – whether it’s for our businesses or our own personal use. However, things start to get a bit uncomfortable when one finds out they don’t have control over their own personal information.
For many years, the only way to be really successful with an online eCommerce website was to spend thousands of dollars to hire a professional to design, develop, and manage the site. Thanks to technology, as well as extreme demand, selling online can be done in a completely different way using free solutions. Although free templates and designs may not be as robust as one professional created, many companies now offer some pretty incredible solutions specific to eCommerce.
Although eCommerce has been around for a long time and remains the foundation on which most internet activity occurs, many people are still unfamiliar with some of the eCommerce basics. Because millions of people around the globe us this type of online service, both as a buyer and seller, and this being a multi-billion revenue stream, we felt it important to provide an overview of what eCommerce is, how it works, and what the future holds.
Social media on the internet has caused a sensation, literally overnight with the success of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter (mainly). The question on everyone’s mind when it comes to social media is: what makes a campaign go viral in social media?
At first, viral campaigns were accidental, and then the phenomenon was hard to unravel. But as time has gone by and we’ve been able to study trends in viral campaigns, businesses and organizations wanting to reach out to the social media networks have started to harness the power of viral campaigns.
