Tech World Still a Man’s World
Although the percentage of women in the U.S. workforce now stands at 46.8%, it remains much lower than that in the technology sector. read more >
Digital Marketing Platforms to Embrace — Or Ignore (Steven Schilling Commentary)
Steven Schilling weeds through big digital marketing platforms like Facebook and Snapchat to determine what's really effective for small businesses. read more >
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Never a Dull Moment for Cranford Co. on Twitter
Ross Cranford is excited about the Cranford Co.’s innovative new work with Twitter. read more >
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UALR Professor Nitin Agarwal Fights Terrorists
Propaganda from "Deviant groups" like ISIS is being disseminated more quickly than would have been possible with traditional methods, according to Nitin Agarwal of UALR. read more >
When Every Day’s a Super Bowl (Ross Cranford Expert Advice)
Everybody knows that the Super Bowl is one of the most watched televised events of the year — 114.4 million viewers in 2015, the largest U.S. audience in history. And every client is now trying to reach customers where, increasingly, they live: on mobile devices. But as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently said, “We have a Super Bowl on mobile every day.” read more >
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Twitter Effort Tackles Infrastructure Needs
Shannon Newton’s constituents are - obviously as president of the Arkansas Trucking Association - Arkansas trucking executives, who are in favor of raising the federal fuel tax to fund highway upkeep and repair. read more >
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CJRW@SXSWi: Big Data & Privacy: Are You Protected?
Elizabeth Michael, CJRW's social media manager, takes a look at data and privacy issues discussed at this year's South-by-Southwest Interactive festival in Austin. read more >
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CJRW@SXSWi: Biz Stone of Twitter on Creativity, Success
Rob Anderson of CJRW is at South-by-Southwest Interactive in Austin. Today, he shares highlights from a session on creativity and defining success featuring Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. read more >
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CJRW@SXSWi: 2015 Trends Include ‘Big Data,’ Content Marketing
Two trends dominating the 2015 South-by-Southwest Interactive festival are content marketing and "big data." Rob Anderson of CJRW of Little Rock reports on what’s hot at this influential annual event. read more >
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Acxiom, Twitter Expand Partnership
Acxiom Corp. of Little Rock said Thursday that it has expanded its partnership with global microblogging giant Twitter Inc. of San Francisco. read more >
Consumers Demand Video (Craig Douglass On Consumers)
Consumers unite! Wait. They are united. At least when it comes to video as part of the consumer experience. In fact, they demand the information conveyed through embedded visual technologies when making preference or purchase decisions. read more >
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Small Businesses Step Up Holiday Social Media Game
There's more to a retailer's holiday social media strategy than posting photos and advertising discounts. Small and independent retailers are getting more aggressive in using Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram in preparation for the important holiday sales season and beyond. read more >
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Don’t Mangle Your Message (Jim Karrh On Marketing)
The past several weeks have been filled with examples of organizations that somehow managed to lose control of their messages in the marketplace. read more >
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Big Tech Firms Lash Out at Government Snooping
Silicon Valley is escalating pressure on President Barack Obama to curb the U.S. government surveillance programs that vacuum personal information off the Internet and threaten thetechnology industry's financial livelihood. read more >
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Twitter Shares Surge on First Day of Trading
If Twitter's bankers and executives were hoping for a surge on the day of the stock's public debut, they got it. The stock opened at $45.10 a share on its first day of trading, 73 percent above its initial offering price. read more >
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Snark Free Day Aims to Stop Snide Online Banter (Natalie Ghidotti Commentary)
Social media snark creates a serious challenge for businesses when working to communicate via social media portals. It’s often challenging and confusing determining how to respond to these remarks, and businesses can find themselves scratching their heads at how they became the center of a snarky debate. read more >
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Nine Lives, All Used Up (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
Brandon Barber’s story is a sad one: A supercharged business career fueled by pride, family connections and bank fraud that flamed out before he was 35. Gambling debts, hot checks, DWIs, divorce, bankruptcy. It would make a dandy Greek tragedy if the protagonist had shown more potential for true greatness, rather than reckless opportunism, in the first place. read more >
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Brandon Barber Boasts of Nine Lives on Twitter
The account has been disabled, but the long memory of Google tells us that, before he was charged with 30 separate federal crimes, former northwest Arkansas developer Brandon Barber had a Twitter account with the handle @BBarberNY. read more >
David Hinson of Hendrix College Called One of ’20 Rising Star CIOs on Twitter’
Vala Afshar, the chief marketing officer and chief customer officer of Enterasys Networks and a Huffington Post blogger recently opined about the most social chief information officers using Twitter. read more >
Arkansas Lawmakers, Journalists Learn the Modern Art of Governing by Tweet
More and more legislators and journalists are using social media to pump out streams of up-to-date facts and opinions, and it’s both a tool and a challenge for the changing media world. read more >
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