Archive for the 'Studies' Category

The Fortune 500 & Blogs

Monday, May 11th, 2009

A recent study, conducted by Nora Ganim Barns at the University of Massachusetts and Eric Mattson with Financial Insite, found that only 16% of Fortune 500 companies have a corporate blog. Moreover, the higher a company is on the list, the more likely they are to have a public-facing blog.
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Only 34 Percent of Executives Monitor Their Online Reputation!

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Online reputation management is becoming more and more important to corporate executives according to a report recently released by the The Conference Board. This detailed report highlights the results of a study that confirms online reputation management concern is significantly on the rise among corporate executives.
This is great news, and certainly to be expected considering [...]

Most Popular Sites for Journalists

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Marketing Pilgrim has covered a study from Brodeur and Marketwire on Beat Reporter Views on Social Media, asking reporters to rank blog and social media sites by beat. While the study didn’t have a great number of respondents (they sent out 3,500 invitations and had only 451 reply), there are a few nuggets if you [...]

eMarketer: Internet Surfers Read With a Grain of Salt

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

In a recent article on Internet surfers trust with online information from eMarketer, aUSC Anneberg School Center for the Digital Future study was reviewed and the contents weren’t that surprising. A major finding was that after a five year study they determined that Internet users have grown more trusting of Web sites managed by [...]