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Three Business Benefits of Measuring Facebook
Today, we reveal two key pieces of additional information that will help organizations: a. Understand the benefits of measuring Facebook (a necessary element in forming social marketing business objectives) and b. Identify vendors that offer measurement solutions for Facebook. DISCLOSURE: Web Analytics Demystified works with many web analytics vendors including some of those discussed in…
Global cybercrimes operate with impunity
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world’s most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
A Tea Party Without Nuts
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: March 23, 2010 President Obama’s winning passage of national health care is both exhilarating and sobering. Covering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement. But the president had to postpone trips, buy off companies and cut every conceivable side deal to just barely make it happen, without a single…
Why Newsrooms Don’t Use Plagiarism Detection Services
Years ago, in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times, Peter Bhatia, then the president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, gave a provocative speech at the organization’s 2004 conference. “One way to define the past ASNE year is to say it began with Jayson Blair and ended with…
It’s a new year in Afghanistan
It’s a new year in Afghanistan This year, the Nowruz festival holds even more significance and importance in the lives of Afghans since the United Nation’s General Assembly recognized March 20 as International Day of Nowruz. Nowruz, banned under Taliban rule, begins on the day of the vernal equinox (the first day…
Why did so many people die in Haiti’s quake?
The devastating earthquakes that hit China on 12 May 2008, Italy on 6 April 2009 and Haiti one month ago all measured above 6.0 and took many lives. But why was the human cost so much greater for Haiti? When Pete Garratt, Red Cross head of disaster relief, received an alert on 12 January indicating…
Look and think, 2 mortal enemies can bury hatchet
Bush and Clinton visit Haiti for fund-raising effort Former US Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton are visiting Haiti as part of their fund-raising efforts to aid the earthquake-stricken nation. The have toured the badly-damaged capital, Port-au-Prince, and are meeting President Rene Preval. They are also visiting camps for some of the 1.3 million…
CNN colleagues honor camerawoman Margaret Moth
March 22, 2010 — Updated 1639 GMT (0039 HKT) CNN’s Ben Wedeman and photojournalist Margaret Moth, pictured in Gaza in August 2001. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Longtime CNN photojournalist dies of cancer at 59, after surviving wars Shot in Sarajevo, she lived and went back to conflict zone as soon as she could Moth was one of…