Lufthansa Finds Success Blending Social Media With Flight Status Updates

http://www.clickz.com/3640555

Cross-Media Case Study: God, Family, Football, and Facebook

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=127544

Cross-Media Case Study: God, Family, Football, and Facebook

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=127544

Mobile Social Graph: From MocoSpace

Mocospace release The Mobile Social Graph.

Not much of the data comes as a surprise. Click here to download.

Here are the top level trends: (courtesy: http://www.adotas.com/2010/06/mobile-social-android-growth-iphone-lust/)

* Android traffic increased by almost 40% in Q1.
* Traditional feature phone usage dropped by 22% in Q1.
* Mobile users log in 1.85 times as often as PC users.
* iPhone and Android sessions are 28% longer than feature phone sessions.
* iPhone and Android users over-index 72% on purchasing virtual currency.

* Courtesy: http://www.jnjmobile.com/report/

What a Leader Should Do, Along with Many other Things...

What a leader should BE doing:
1) say the truth and
2) know when to STOP talking about the problem and actually fix it

Read this to find out what a leader should NOT do

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04image.html?th&emc=th

Bad Habits...

We are not meant to be sitting for the amount of time we do!!

This is a great article on how our habits could be killing us.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm

A New Wave in Local Search: Search Engines Going for Local Businesses (Mom And Pop Stores)

Major engines going after a HUGE mom and pop stores that do not even have a website. A new wave of local listings...
Google Places launched for local businesses is accessible for just $25 a month.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=126654

Twitter users expected to continually grow

Research analyst firm eMarketer estimates the number of U.S. adult Twitter users will reach 36 million in 2012, up from 18 million in 2009. As a percentage of people who use the Internet, Twitter users will account for 18.8% in 2012, up from 10.5% in 2009.This forecast assumes that Twitter will deliver on its mission to shift its focus from audience building to revenue generation in 2010.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=126764

Management Guru C.K. Prahalad Passed Away

One of the great minds of our times and a management guru C.K. Prahalad passed away on April 16th, 2010.

It is a sad day indeed and a great loos for the management and management research community.

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