SyCara Releases Social Insights Feature, Provides Social Media Reporting & Monitoring for SEO Tool Platform

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) March 06, 2012

SyCara, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool platform for digital agencies and brand advertisers, announced the release of SyCara Social Insights, an industry-leading feature providing marketers with detailed social media reporting & monitoring for Facebook and Twitter accounts and sophisticated analysis on high quality social data collected from over 180 million blogs, social networks, groups and boards.

SyCara Social Insights provides SEO agencies and enterprise SEO professionals with a simplified platform for monitoring social media performance and interaction.

“The rules of the game are changing when it comes to SEO. We know that social signals are becoming an important part of SEO rankings and online traffic, said Jen Dorre, SyCaras COO. We are excited to launch SyCara Social Insights to enable our clients to receive an at-a-glance view of social media metrics on their brand, Facebook, and Twitter pages. Social Insights will provide our customers with the analytical, real-time data needed to efficiently monitor their search and social strategy on a single platform.

Search strategists understand the influence of social media conversations on SEO rankings and brand traffic. SyCara Social Insights provides SEO professionals with valuable keyword and content insights to develop integrated search and social strategies on a centralized platform. SyCara aims to provide real-time intelligence, with sophisticated analysis and segmentation capabilities on search and social media reporting.

Social Insights will also help marketers understand how they compare to their competitors in SEO and social conversations. The high quality data and accurate results will measure true brand buzz and word of mouth, enabling the marketer to improve and inform their SEO strategies.

Since its first release, SyCara has successfully integrated and released Share of Voice and first-to-market local and universal search features in its robust SEO platform.

About SyCara

SyCara has developed a technology platform for search engine optimization (SEO) that caters to agencies and enterprise SEO customers. The SyCara platform automates SEO management tasks and delivers actionable insights to guide search marketing professionals. SyCara provides a single SEO platform to simply and effectively accomplish workflow management, SEO monitoring, reporting and project management. Using SyCara’s prioritized, actionable plans, SEO professionals are empowered to achieve a higher level of efficiency and ROI.

SyCara is based in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information about SyCara, go to http://www.sycara.com or call 855-479-2272.

SyCara Releases Social Insights Feature, Provides Social Media Reporting & Monitoring for SEO Tool Platform

Social Media Marketing Company Provides Online Reputation Management and Monitoring

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 10, 2012

Dr. Matthew Loop and Dr. Len Schwartz co-created Automated Social Networking (ASN) to help small, local businesses maximize the power of the Internet and social media. Using this new service, local companies can now track, measure and manage their online presence and what’s being said (good and bad) about them.

The Internet can be an exceptionally beneficial force for a small business, said Dr. Loop. But, he added, it can also be damaging to business if the wrong information, such as negative reviews, blogs and reports, are published. The fact is anyone can put anything they want to on the web about a company and that information can find its way to page one of Google. Reputation management services from Automated Social Networking can expose and remedy any image problems businesses are having due to adverse material on the Internet.

Reputation management services include integrated search engine tracking and data, allowing companies to know how much their online presence has grown over the course of a month. Helping to ensure visibility online is ASNs ability to get companies prominently displayed in the top three local search directories and in directories that are specific to any enterprise.

Towards understanding why a company stands where it does, ASN sends each business a report focusing on monthly analytics, which means that company will know its SEO score. They’ll know how they’re fairing with search engines and if they need to adjust what they are doing. Plus, ASN has a unique feature that allows businesses to input data and make corrections on all directories with one push of a button.

Reputation management monitoring is ongoing and subscribers get digital updates through email or directly texted to their cellphone when new ratings or reviews are published. This new service also monitors mobile networks, which is especially important as more and more people are using their cellphones to access information on a daily basis. With local targeting of placement in directories and with map placement, businesses will be seen by those in the local area who are most likely to buy the product or service.

One great benefit, observed Dr. Loop, is the business owner gets peace of mind from knowing that their social networking, search engine optimization and reputation management are all being handled for them 24/7. Our approach is twofold. We help create a positive presence while working towards identifying any negatives that may be out there.

ASN, which is the largest turnkey, social media marketing company in the world, was created and founded by Dr. Loop and Dr. Len Schwartz. Both are experienced marketing moguls and entrepreneurs. ASN gives doctors, professionals and small business owners the ability to create a consistent, comprehensive social media and Internet marketing campaign. This helps to greatly increase new, targeted traffic to their websites.

For more information on Automated Social Networking and their Reputation Management services go to http://automatedsocialnetworking.com/reputation-management/ or call 1-866-822-7246.

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ManageEngine to Debut Private Social Network Exclusively for IT at Interop

Pleasanton, Calif. (PRWEB) May 03, 2012

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the debut of ITPulse, the industrys first private social network exclusively for IT teams. ITPulse engages and socializes IT teams by establishing a one-stop, cascading wall for real-time display of IT infrastructure health and collaboration in a secure and fun environment. Integrated out-of-the-box with the companys OpManager and ServiceDesk Plus, ITPulse can also be integrated via an API for third-party tools, such as BMC, CA, HP, IBM and others.

ManageEngine to Debut Private Social Network Exclusively for IT at Interop

New Health Sciences Alerts at Science Alerts Social Network

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) May 09, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Health Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 18,025 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,077,022 articles to the site. The new Health Sciences category currently features 318,940 stories exclusively selected from 1,889 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains 318,940 stories selected from 1,889 scholarly health sciences journals. This category also provides an Health Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles suggests that keeping current obesity rates level could save nearly $ 550 billion over the next two decades. This forecasting study found that 42 percent of the US population could be obese by 2030. The category also features new research about Facebook addiction. Researchers from Norway have developed the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale as an instrument to measure Facebook addiction. As the site has become as ubiquitous as television in many people’s lives, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many to know if they are addicted to Facebook. The symptoms of addiction resemble those of drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and chemical substance addiction.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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Dialogue Marketings Social Media Contact Center Social Lift Provides Businesses with Cutting Edge Services

Troy, Michigan (PRWEB) May 29, 2012

Social Lift, the social media contact center division of Dialogue Marketing Inc., has both re-invented the traditional call center business model and helped its customers gain a more manageable grip on their social media presence.

Ever since the inception of social media, companies have always wondered how to transform Likes, Retweets and Check-Ins into purchases and long-term customer relationships. With the help of Social Lift, businesses can focus on building relationships with their existing customer base using social media campaigns, social customer service engagement, and new technologies such as video and mobile. The goal of Social Lift, a social media contact center, is to take a business current customers and turn them into brand ambassadors, effectively using them to promote the brand, messaging, and products to their online networks. In addition, Social Lift monitors the social media landscape to generate new customers. For example, if someone is having an unpleasant experience with a competitor, the team will jump into the conversation and build an engaging experience in hopes of converting them into a new customer.

Dialogue Marketing firmly believes that customer retention is the new customer acquisition. Through the use of Social Lifts social media contact center services, companies will be able to better handle the mentions, engagements and brand reputation of their company online, allowing them to allocate their resources elsewhere, while also ensuring that their customers needs and questions are being met and answered appropriately.

Social Lift was created by Dialogue Marketing when the company saw room for a third-party social media contact center to build the customer experience by handling customer service and proactive engagement online on behalf of brands. When the service was officially launched in November 2010, it quickly became a flagship product for Dialogue Marketing.

As a result of the programs achievements, President Lauren Ziskie was recently recognized as one of the 20 in their 20s by Crains Detroit Business. Ziskie started at Dialogue Marketing in 2007 as an intern. She quickly saw the need to expand the call centers business services to include a social media contact center to reach a younger demographic that was transitioning into adults roles with adult purchasing power.

Younger people dont want to call a company and deal with its automated phone service, Ziskie said. Theyd rather send in a text or a tweet.

Her persistence within the company led to the creation of the social media contact center Social Lift, Ziskies own division that is considered the most profitable unit within the $ 31 million company and a major growth source for Dialogue Marketing Inc.

About Dialogue Marketing Inc.

Established more than 30 years ago, Dialogue Marketing, Inc. provides award-winning customer relationship management (CRM) services to help companies of all sizes and across a wide range of industries acquire, support and retain customers. With more than 1,100 employees, the company offers lead generation, customer care, technical support and end-to-end sales support to help turn call centers into value-added profit centers that build long-term enterprise value and lifelong customer relationships. For more information, please visit Dialogue-Marketing.com

About Social Lift

Social Lift, the social media contact center division of Dialogue Marketing, strives to help its client create a social strategy for each of its customer engagement portals and enhance the clients overall image through brand reputation management. For more information, please visit Social-Lift.com.

Dialogue Marketings Social Media Contact Center Social Lift Provides Businesses with Cutting Edge Services

The Effect of Social Media on the Disaster Relief Effort Following the March 11 Earthquake in Japan

Tokyo, Japan (PRWEB) July 26, 2011

Beat Communication Co., Ltd., the largest provider of social networking packages in Japan, conducted a research on the use of social media before and after the March 11th Earthquake in Japan. This press release is part one of the two part report on this research.

Following natural disasters, increased communication is common, as people seek to contact family and friends in the disasters zone. The Japanese earthquake however was the first major disaster of a developed nation in the age of social media. Our research shows that social media played a critical role in the disaster relief effort following the earthquake in Japan.

The research found that though the use of mobile phones and email did predictably increase in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the use of social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and mixi (a Japanese social networking site) also increased, and in fact surpassed the use of more conventional methods of communication such as fixed phones (see Q1). Apart from the use of major public social networking services, many companies actively used their own secured corporate social networking services after the earthquake in order to confirm the safety of employees. In total, there was an overall 66-70% increase in the use of social media aftermath of the earthquake.

More specifically, after the earthquake 70% of respondents used Twitter, 38% used Facebook, 22% used U-Stream, 16% used Youtube, 16% used intra-corporate social networking sites (enterprise 2.0) or Intranet and 12% used mixi to confirm the safety of employees, friends and family, to learn more about the disaster situation (such as the damage done to modes of transportation and electrical grids) and to listen to public service announcements and press reports in lieu of television (see Q3).

The importance of social media in disaster relief is evident. 81.3% of employees responded that the use of intra-corporate social network (enterprise 2.0) & miniblogs such as twitter should be increased in the future use to act as a security backup & alert system for corporations against the future disasters.

As seen from the result, Twitter was the most widely used communication tool following the earthquake (70% of respondents). A combination of Twitter as a quick public reporting tool and secured corporate social networking site as a private communication tool would be ideal in dealing with disaster situations in the future.

The graphs reveal how the use of Social Media changed due to the Japanese Earthquake. The percentage of respondents who use Twitter in order to obtain information faster increased from 56% to 71%. The percentage of respondents who use Twitter to make up for lack of information from domestic media increased from 30% to 54%. Following the earthquake, absolutely new ways of using Twitter emerged: The percentage of respondents who use Twitter to obtain accurate information from foreign media in lieu of domestic media increased to 30%.The percentage of respondents who use of Twitter to obtain expert opinion increased to 30%.

The percentage of respondents who use Twitter to obtain disaster information on tsunamis and earthquakes increased to 30%. The percentage of respondents who use Twitter to isseminate information increased to 22%. All this reveals the uttermost importance of Twitter in disaster relief.

The Top Three reasons for using Social Media (Facebook, mixi, etc) before the earthquake was 1)To communicate with family and friends (57% of respondents replied such), 2)To get information faster (32%), and 3) to disseminate information to the people (25%). After the earthquake however To get information faster moved up 32% to 49% of respondents, to compensate for the lack of information in television and newspapers increased from 20% to 33% of respondents, to disseminate information increased from 25% to 29% of respondents, to get information from foreign media due to the lack of domestic information increased to 22%, and To ensure the safety of family and friends increased to 21%.

In conclusion to part 1 of the report, we would like to stress the importance of social media in disaster relief. Mini blogs like Twitter and private communication tools like intra-corporate social networking services (enterprise 2.0) such as Beat Office provided access to quick communication in the aftermath of the earthquake when landlines broke and cell phones went out of service. Communication is especially vital in disaster relief situations, and social media provided a new kind of relief that ultimately saved lives. There is no doubt that the earthquake changed social media in Japan forever.

When receiving responses from our surveys, some companies provided more detailed information than others. We will disclose these additional information in the next part of the report tomorrow.

At the end of this first announcement, we would like to extend our sympathies to all the families affected by the Japanese earthquake on March 11. We wish for their speedy recovery and the reconstruction of the devastated area as soon as possible.

———- Survey Summary ———————

Research: Surveys were sent to 300 of the largest companies, 100 of which replied.

Research Objectives: to find the utilization of social media during the earthquake

Search Authority: Beat Communication Co, Ltd.

Methodology: Voluntary Internet questionnaire

Study period: April 21 2011, April 14, 2011

Beat Communication

Company Name: Beat Communication Co., Ltd.

Representative: Ryo Murai

Established: January 06, 2004

Start-up Capital: 35,000,000 yen

Location: 5-8-1 Scene Akira 3F Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

URL: http://www.beat.co.jp/en

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The Effect of Social Media on the Disaster Relief Effort Following the March 11 Earthquake in Japan

New Agricultural Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) June 21, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Agricultural Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 18,871 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,142,673 articles to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Agricultural Sciences category currently features 88,628 stories exclusively selected from 218 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Agricultural Sciences Category covers the cultivation and production of crops, raising of livestock, and postharvest processing of natural products. It currently contains 88,628 stories selected from 218 scholarly agricultural sciences journals. This category also provides an Agricultural Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles assesses soil structure in the transition layer between topsoil and subsoil using the profil cultural method. The authors’ results show that the classification of cracking and the quantification of the number of earthworm burrows per square meter can explain observed root development in subsoil. They also observed that cracking and biological activity are closely related to root density in subsoil. The category also features an article which shows that ammonium enhances resistance to salinity stress in citrus plants. The author’s results suggest that NH4+ treatments induce a mild stress condition that primes the citrange Carrizo defense response by stress imprinting and confers protection against subsequent salt stress.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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New Biological Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) June 27, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Biological Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 19,836 members have signed up and have actively contributed 920,225 articles to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Biological Sciences category currently features 383,937 stories exclusively selected from 997 scientific biology publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Biological Sciences Category covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution. It currently contains 383,937 stories selected from 997 scholarly biological sciences journals. This category also provides an Biological Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles assesses testing four candidate barcoding markers in temperate woody bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). The authors’ study is a first attempt to test the feasibility of four proposed DNA barcoding markers (matK, rbcL, trnH-psbA and ITS) in identifying 27 species of the temperate woody bamboos, i.e., Arundinarieae. They suggest that the combination of rbcL+ITS, which had the highest species identification power among all combinations, could be used as a potential DNA barcode in temperate woody bamboos. The category also features an article which predicts toxicity of the biofuel candidate 2,5-dimethylfuran in environmental and biological systems. 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) is a leading biofuel candidate, but was found to induce chromosomal damage in cultured murine cells, suggesting that it may be genotoxic. The authors consequently sought to prioritize the environmental and biological impacts of using DMF as a combustible biofuel. Although their results were inadequate for a stand-alone risk assessment of having associations with tumors and systemic diseases, the data suggest that DMF combustion intermediates pose a much broader range of hazards than DMF itself.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) July 04, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Environmental Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 19,235 members have signed up and have actively contributed 926,769 articles to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Environmental Sciences category currently features 27,323 stories exclusively selected from 154 scientific biology publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental Sciences Category covers the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management. It currently contains 27,323 stories selected from 154 scholarly environment sciences journals. This category also provides an Environmental Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles compares the performance of anaerobic reactors for treatment of sago industry wastewater. Sago effluents from cassava starch production pose a serious threat to the environment and quality of life in rural areas of India. According the the article’s authors, anaerobic digestion has proved to be an effective method of treating the sago industry wastewater with simultaneous production of energy in the form of methane. Another newly included article presents a case study on conservation of socioculturally important local crop biodiversity in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The authors surveyed diversity in a range of local crops in the Lume and Gimbichu districts of Ethiopia, combined with the knowledge of local people regarding crop uses, socio-economic importance, conservation, management and existing threats. Introduction of improved wheat varieties, pest infestation, shortage of land, low yield performance and climate variability were identified as the principal factors contributing to the loss or decline of crop biodiversity in this region of Ethiopia. The category also features an article which analyzes the relationship between a firms greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its profitability in Japanese manufacturing. The authors conclude that although ISO 141 adoption is generally considered to be an indicator of a firms stance on environmental proactiveness, it does not provide a sufficient incentive to reduce emissions.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Forestry Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 19,853 members have signed up and have actively contributed 955,361 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Forestry Sciences category currently features 12,013 stories exclusively selected from 29 scientific forestry publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Forestry Sciences Category covers the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. It currently contains 12,013 stories selected from 29 scholarly forestry sciences journals. This category also provides a Forestry Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles investigates the genetic variation in seedlings of two Turkish Abies species. Seedling mortality was higher in Trojan fir (Abies equi-trojani) compared to Turkish fir (Abies bornmuelleriana) and mortality in both species varied by geographic origin, decreasing from west to east. Terminal and lateral branch bud break were also under strong genetic control. encouraging ongoing tree improvement efforts in North America and Europe to develop planting stock for the Christmas tree industry. Another newly included article presents results of a meta-analysis of consumer’s willingness-to-pay (WTP) premiums for certified wood products. These indicate that frequently purchased wood products and wood products with lower base prices tend to capture higher percentage premiums and that reported WTP estimates have, consequently, increased in recent years. The category also features an article analyzing actors’ power and interests affecting biodiversity in community forestry in Namibia. Following analysis of the biodiversity of 14 community forests in Namibia, the authors of this article conclude that biodiversity in community forestry depends on the interests of powerful actors who use their power to achieve a positive outcome for biodiversity.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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New Geography Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) August 02, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Geography Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 20,951 members have signed up and have actively contributed 963,157 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in a ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Geography Sciences category currently features 66,773 stories exclusively selected from 424 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Geography Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth. It currently contains 66,773 stories selected from 424 scholarly geography sciences journals. This category also provides a Geography Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles incorporates spatial dynamics and temporal dependency in land use change models. It formulates an empirical discrete land use model within a spatially explicit economic structural framework for land use change decisions, using the City of Austin parcel-level land use database. The estimation results indicate that proximity to highways and other roadways, distance from floodplains, parcel location in the context of existing development, and distance from schools are important determinants of land use. The authors suggest that major highways may not only physically partition regions, but may also act as social barriers for didactic interactions among individuals. Another newly included article investigates factors governing the distribution and fish-community associations of the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in Michigan tributaries of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Round goby sites were larger, had lower channel slopes, less large wood, and less canopy cover than round non-gobyt sites, suggesting that these attributes may promote round goby establishment. The authors’ results indicate that round goby are widespread in eastern Michigan tributaries to the Great Lakes, present in streams with a range of physical habitat characteristics, and that this presence is associated with certain fish species. Mottled sculpin, cyprinids, brook stickleback, white sucker and rainbow trout were associated with goby absence while centrarchids, percids, yellow bullhead, and mud minnow were associated round goby presence. The category also features an article analyzing the 3-D lithospheric structure and regional/residual Bouguer anomalies in the ArabiaEurasia collision (Iran). The authors’ results indicate that Moho depth varies from 42 km at the MesopotamianPersian Gulf foreland basin to 6 km below the High Zagros. The lithosphere is thicker beneath the foreland basin (2 km) and thinner underneath the High Zagros and Central Iran (14 km).

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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ThinkUp and BitNami Provide Valuable Insight into Your Social Networks

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2012

ThinkUp and BitNami have collaborated to provide one-click deployment of the social network analysis tool that CNET calls a big deal. The new BitNami Stack for ThinkUp makes it easy to deploy ThinkUp in native, virtual and cloud environments.

ThinkUp captures posts, tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. With ThinkUp, users can store their social activity in a database that they control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from their networks. ThinkUp is the ideal social media management tool for personalities like journalists, bloggers, and celebrities who want easier ways to manage interactions and compile feedback from fans and followers. It is also a powerful tool for government agencies who want easy ways to survey constituents, analyze and share response sets as well as track and archive conversations. As tech publication ReadWriteWeb says, ThinkUp is the social media management tool that matters most.

We are always looking for the best and most useful applications to offer to the hundreds of thousands of users who visit BitNami every month, said BitNami founder and CTO Daniel Lopez Ridruejo. ThinkUp is a very cool and powerful app for social media management and we are very happy to be able to offer it in the BitNami Application Library.

As with all BitNami-packaged applications, the BitNami ThinkUp Stack is available free of charge as a native installer for Linux, Windows and OS X, as an Ubuntu-based virtual appliance and as an AMI for the Amazon Cloud. In addition, BitNami has added support for ThinkUp to its BitNami Cloud Hosting platform, which provides one-click deployment and automated management of web applications in the cloud. By combining BitNami and Amazons free tiers of service, users can run ThinkUp in the cloud free for one year with BitNami Cloud Hosting.

Anil Dash, CEO of ThinkUp added, “We’re thrilled that BitNami has made such as simple but powerful way to run ThinkUp in nearly any environment, because it offers a much easier experience for our users to get started. BitNami’s ThinkUp Stack ditches all of the complicated and confusing parts of running in the cloud and keeps all the powerful and innovative parts — that’s the kind of smart work that we know is going to be embraced by the ThinkUp community.”

To learn more or download the BitNami ThinkUp Stack, visit: http://bitnami.org/stack/thinkup

To deploy ThinkUp to the Amazon Cloud free of charge, sign up for a BitNami Cloud Hosting at: http://bitnami.org/cloud

About BitNami

BitNami simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides a growing library of the most popular open source applications, ready to be launched with the click of a button. With BitNami Cloud Hosting, solution providers and businesses of all sizes can deploy and manage business applications such as Jasperserver, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal and many more. BitNami is developed by BitRock, a leader in cross-platform application deployment.

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Hearsay Social Partners with Distribion for Content Exchange

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 22, 2012

Hearsay Social, provider of social sales and marketing software for the enterprise, and Distribion, Inc., a leading provider of on demand, Web-based multi-channel marketing automation software, today announced a partnership to help top companies distribute powerful sales and marketing content in industries such as financial services and insurance.

The Distribion marketing automation solution provides corporate marketers and local sales agents within regulated industries an effortless way to access an on-demand, Web-based platform that generates branded, pre-approved, compliant-controlled marketing content that can be leveraged and distributed over multiple channels. As part of its new partnership with Hearsay Social, Distribion is enabling marketers to gain additional insight from campaign content published to social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and foursquare.

We chose to partner with Hearsay Social because it is leading the way in providing social sales and marketing success for the insurance and financial services industries, said Tim Storer, CEO of Distribion. Elegantly integrated into our platform, Hearsay Social will empower our clients to improve their own customer reach and increase revenue through social media.

In addition to integrating with Distribions own solution, Hearsay Social will likewise be adding Distribion as a content partner for Hearsay Social Content Exchange, a content curation platform that allows marketers and salespeople to easily discover, curate, and post engaging updates to their profiles across all the major social networks. Distribion is the latest partner to join in supporting the Hearsay Social Content Exchange, which already includes premium content from media leaders Demand Media, Tribune Media Services, and Thomson Reuters.

We are excited to be partnering with Distribion to make it even easier for multichannel marketers to connect with their audiences on social media, said Hearsay Social CEO, Clara Shih. Distribion, along with our other Content Exchange partners, is leading the way in helping us power the insurance and financial services industries on social.

About the Hearsay Social Platform

For enterprises with large sales organizations or store networks, Hearsay Socials social sales and marketing software will enable your salespeople to increase revenue using social media by acquiring and continuously engaging customers on social platforms. Hearsay Social is the only software that increases revenue, referrals, and renewals by transforming the entire enterprise into a social business, including sales, marketing, compliance, and HR.

Hearsay Social Sales Module for easy social media page and profile management for non-technical sales users, one-click publishing of content and campaigns provided by corporate marketing teams, and intuitive personal analytics.

Hearsay Social Marketing Module for the sophisticated needs of social media marketing teams. Manage hundreds of corporate social media pages and review thousands of sales-managed pages. Easily manage thousands of apps and posts per day and suggest engaging content to employees, stores, or branches. Now including Content Exchange to discover, curate, and share content from content partners.

Hearsay Social Compliance Module for FINRA/SEC compliant infraction monitoring, capturing, archiving, and Rogue Page Finder.

Hearsay Social Enterprise IT Module including single sign-on (SSO), LDAP directory integration, and integration with CA Siteminder and HP Autonomy to deliver security, compliance, ease of use, and scale.

About Hearsay Social

The worlds largest companies, including Northwestern Mutual, Thrivent Financial, Farmers Group, and 24 Hour Fitness, use Hearsay Socials award-winning technology platform to achieve regulatory compliance, build stronger customer relationships, and bolster their brand across all the major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and foursquare. Hearsay Social, a SIFMA strategic partner, has raised $ 21M from Sequoia Capital, NEA, and top executives from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, and YouTube, and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in New York and Ohio.

Hearsay Social Blog: hearsaysocial.com/blog

Facebook: facebook.com/hearsaysocial

Twitter: @HearsaySocial

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/hearsay-social

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About Distribion

Distribion offers the only proven marketing automation and sales enablement solution built for marketing organizations in regulated industries. Distribion’s on-demand, web-based, marketing platform allows users to generate branded, pre-approved materials, and distribute marketing campaigns across multiple distribution channels at once with the click of a button. Companies who use the Distribion approach to marketing automation are able to gain a competitive edge and sell more. Distribion is proud to be a 2012 Strategic Partner of LIMRA, the leading global insurance marketing and research association.

Hearsay Social Partners with Distribion for Content Exchange

New Health Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) September 03, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Health Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 21,171 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,007,529 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in a ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Health Sciences category currently features 413,908 posts exclusively selected from 3,504 scientific health publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains 413,908 posts selected from 3,504 scholarly health sciences journals. This category also provides a Health Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles presents a multilevel analysis identifying the socioeconomic status and tobacco consumption among adolescents in Argentina. Students attending schools receiving social assistance were more likely to smoke and to purchase loose cigarettes, whereas school poverty was significantly associated with secondhand smoke exposure. Unfavorable contextual school characteristics are associated with tobacco consumption and related measures among youth in Argentina. Another article on tobacco use highlights smokeless tobacco and its relation to panic disorder, major depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder in American Indians. Although approximately 30% of American Indian tribal members were lifetime users of smokeless tobacco, the association with lifetime psychiatric disorders was not as strong as those observed with cigarette smoking. The category also features an article on how exposure to acute electromagnetic radiation of mobile phone alters transiently skin homeostasis. The authors investigated the effects of mobile phone exposure on a model of pigmented skin. Their results indicate that exposure to 900 MHz frequency induces a transient alteration of epidermal homoeostasis, which may alter the protective capacity of the skin against external factors.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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GXS Boosts Retailers Drop Ship Initiatives with B2B Social Community Management Platform

(PRWEB) September 10, 2012

GXS, a leading provider of B2B integration services, today announced that its RollStream solution enables retailers drop ship solutions. GXS RollStream assesses vendor capabilities and delivers supplier lifecycle management tools for drop ship and Omnichannel retailing. As a collaborative business social supply chain offering, GXS RollStream enables retailers to quickly establish guidelines and set expectations to ensure consumer satisfaction.

The rise in online shopping has made it necessary for leading retailers to offer consumers a broader range of merchandise to compete in todays market. To keep up with demand, retailers are growing their drop ship programs with vendors and suppliers to offer increased choice and availability. Fully understanding suppliers capabilities in relation to packaging, branding and shipping help create successful programs from the outset.

Retailers interested in expanding their drop ship programs can use GXS RollStream for surveying and identifying supplier capabilities and interest in direct-to-consumer initiatives. RollStream rapidly evaluates their ability to pick and pack individual units from warehouse locations, ship to home addresses via parcel carriers and exchange the associated purchase order, inventory and ASN EDI documents. Retailers can also use RollStreams productivity tools to rapidly onboard the chosen suppliers into the drop ship programs, by delivering outbound communications, monitoring response levels and walking each vendor step-by-step through a task-based workflow for enabling drop ship. Once onboarded, RollStream administers enhancements to drop ship programs such as expedited shipping, custom packaging and gift wrapping.

With the huge growth in couch commerce and tablet shopping, there has never been more pressure on retailers and e-tailers to expand the choice and availability of items for sale, said Nick Parnaby, vice president extended enterprise solutions at GXS. To make these items available for sale and engage broader communities of suppliers that offer them, retailers need to empower their merchandising and B2B teams with next generation productivity and process management tools. Thats where GXS RollStream comes in. It is specifically designed for assessing, engaging and enabling new vendors activities retailers must excel at to protect and expand revenue streams.

RollStream supports human centric B2B activities, allowing cross-functional personnel from both sides of a trading relationship to interact with one another. From assessing capabilities and automation of trading partner agreement creation, to full lifecycle engagement and relationship governance, RollStream offers a single supplier information repository and interaction playbook. This provides retailers with a holistic view of their relationship with each of their suppliers. The product allows merchants to take a methodical approach to their drop ship program by establishing clear guidelines and thresholds up front. RollStream also includes mechanisms for monitoring the performance of the defined program as well as the participating partners themselves.

With RollStream, GXS supports the entire procure-to-pay lifecycle for retailers and order-to-cash for suppliers. Drop ship is a vital aspect of a successful Omnichannel retail strategy. Focused on improving shipping and receiving through adoption of the Advance Ship Notice (ASN) and serialized carton labeling, companies can easily adapt their B2B programs to serve evolving channels such as internet and mobile commerce. Using a cloud-style approach, GXS enhances the flexibility and agility of integration capabilities for buyers and suppliers. Its comprehensive B2B portfolio is used by more than 90% of the Fortune 500 general merchandisers and more than 200 large retail organizations across the globe to enhance procure-to-pay and logistics supply chain visibility, improve data quality and enable complex trading communities.

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GXS is a leading B2B integration services provider and operates the worlds largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid

GXS Boosts Retailers Drop Ship Initiatives with B2B Social Community Management Platform

Kred Joins Expanding Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Insights Ecosystem

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 19, 2012

Kred, the Community Influence and Outreach measure based on over 1,400 days of social data, today announced it has joined the growing Salesforce Marketing Cloud Insights ecosystem. Kred brings instant identification of social media user influence to the Insights ecosystem, helping companies leverage the power of social to connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. The integration of Kred enables Salesforce Marketing Cloud users to discover the most influential and outreaching people in social media by keywords, phrases, hashtags or topic profiles. By appending Kred community influence and outreach scores to every post, brands can easily discover the content making the greatest impact in pre-defined communities such as Moms, Foodies and Fitness.

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gen-Es Resolve Social ITPA Solution for Service Desk Automates Up to 90 Percent of Ticket Handling and Troubleshooting Tasks

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) October 22, 2012

gen-E (formerly generationE Technologies), a global IT process automation (ITPA) software company, today announced the release of Resolve Service Desk Automation (SDA), a new enterprise social-powered ITPA solution that automates up to 90 percent of ticket handling and troubleshooting tasks while super-charging an organizations legacy IT Service Management (ITSM) stack of tools with unified orchestration across tools, silos and departments.

Now available, Resolve SDA will be on display at Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2012, Oct. 21-25 in Orlando, in booth #1120.

Resolve SDA leverages gen-Es industry-leading social ITPA capabilities, bringing together enterprise social, collaboration, dynamic knowledge management, decision support, analytics, process orchestration and process automation in a single platform.

At the foundation of Resolve SDA lies a dynamic knowledge management platform that transforms collective knowledge across the IT ecosystem into actionable intelligence dramatically reducing escalation to and reliance upon subject matter experts (SMEs), and significantly decreasing incident handling times, said Casey Kindiger, CEO, gen-E. Resolve SDA automates workflows, streamlines decision making and empowers level 1 IT service desk personnel to do a better job managing incidents and problems.

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Ten Commandments For B2B Social Media Campaigns

Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) November 13, 2012

The worlds largest network of independent marketing communications agencies, Worldwide Partners, Inc. (WPI) with 87 agencies in 54 countries, representing $ 3.4 billion U.S. in capitalized billings, offers ten rules for utilizing social media in B2B marketing from WPI partner agencies Godfrey in Pennsylvania, Mintz & Hoke in Connecticut and Traction Creative in Canada.

Number One: Be On Target

Know your audience Start by determining where your audience is spending their time online and where they are engaging in conversations, urges Andy DeBrunner, Social Media Manager at Godfrey. Then begin participating as a valued member of their community.

Number Two: Be Relevant

What works in social for business to consumer is not likely to work for business to business, says Jeff Lucas of Traction Creative in Vancouver. According to Lucas, it is of utmost importance to recognize that the motivation to use social media in business circles is different than the motivation to use it in our personal lives. The uses also shift by industry from older conservative industries versus technology industries, Lucas adds.

Number Three: Be On Time

Is the right message being presented at the right time in the sales cycle to the right audience? asks Lucas. Chris Knopf of Minz & Hoke in Connecticut adds, Its important to stay top-of-mind as the B2B consumer moves through an often long sales cycle in B2B.

Number Four: Focus On Quality

Content is king, Knopf notes. Social media can help establish community, create brand identity and generate leads. And this starts with content. Create high quality, varied content on a consistent basis, with a call-to-action to drive discussion and engagement. Promote with social links and use keywords to improve SEO and findability.

Number Five: Be Real

DeBrunner advises businesses to, Walk the walk. Its easy for community members to sniff out a social media dilettante. If your company is not committed to making the digital community a better place, then they will tune you out. Simply sending out traditional marketing or sales messages in a new medium will ultimately fail. Knopf suggests businesses use question and answer formats to develop thought leadership.

Number Six: Look For Leads

Lead generation is also the name of the game, explains Knopf. Lead generation starts with building relationships, which is fueled by a content marketing strategy. A solid marketing automation program also will bolster these efforts. Like the likes but keep an eye on the leads.

Number Seven: Know Whats Working And What Youre Working Towards

Metrics matter. Know in advance what you are tracking against. Metrics will vary depending on your goals. Tie specific goals and metrics to higher-level business objectives. The most successful and targeted campaigns integrate social media management with marketing automation metrics. Explains Knopf, Equally important is to track the impact of social media on sales. Develop a strategy with your sales team on board to follow-up and convert leads from social media. Monitor results on an ongoing basis.

Number Eight: Start Small And Go Long Haul

Be consistent, DeBrunner encourages, and dont give up too soon start small with one community where you believe you will have the greatest impact. Focus on making your presence in that community the best it can possibly be. Results will probably not be immediate but will become more pronounced over time. Then, after you begin to see results and learn more about your audience, start growing your reach into new communities. If you spread yourself too thin early on, its likely that you will give up before the program starts working.

Number Nine: Remember Social Is Global

As many consumer goods companies have learned, there are no borders in the digital world. While language can sometimes create a barrier, it seems to be less and less an issue in some of the B2B industries, asserts WPI, President & CEO, Al Moffatt. Were finding that some B2B social efforts are viewed around the globe.

Number Ten: Integrate Social

Social permeates everything, says Knopf. Integrate social media programs with overarching marketing campaigns. As a key driver for offline programs (e.g., trade shows), social media should be part of a coordinated effort to improve results of traditional tactics. Audit everything you do for social potential: cross-promote social platforms and facilitate sharing at multiple touch points such as websites, newsletters and the like. Never use the line Win an iPad, Lucas adds.

About Worldwide Partners, Inc.

Worldwide Partners, Inc. (WPI) is the worlds largest owner-operated advertising and marketing communications network made up of 87 agencies employing 3,900 people in 141 offices located in 54 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America. Based in Denver, Colorado USA, WPI is owned by the partner agencies that make up the network. WPI exists to explore and capitalize on global business development opportunities with multinational clients for its partners and to act as a hub that harnesses the creativity, local expertise and resources of the agencies in the partnership and apply them to solve problems for clients on a local, regional and international basis. This allows partners to expand their existing client relationships geographically and to compete effectively for international new business. Clients gain access to best-in-class, entrepreneurially driven agencies steeped in local knowledge in all markets they engage WPI shops. WPIs partner agencies manage $ 3.4 billion in worldwide advertising expenditures. For more information, visit http://www.worldwidepartners.com.

About Godfrey

Godfrey is one of the leading business-to-business marketing agencies in the United States. Godfrey offers research, strategic consulting, brand management, digital marketing strategy and execution, advertising, public relations, digital marketing solutions, lead management, measurement and the ability to implement cutting-edge technologies. For more information about the spectrum of services Godfrey offers, please visit the company website at http://www.godfrey.com.

About Mintz & Hoke

Mintz & Hoke is an integrated, full-service communications firm offering a wide range of strategic planning, advertising, public relations, interactive, media planning and buying, and direct marketing services. Located in Avon, Connecticut for 41 years, Mintz & Hokes mission is to Make the Complex Sale Happen. Clients include Aetna, the State of Connecticut, Legrand, GE Captial and DRS Technologies. Mintz & Hoke is a shareholder of Denver-based Worldwide Partners Inc., the worlds largest alliance of independent agencies serving clients around the globe. For more information, visit http://www.mintz-hoke.com.

About Traction Creative

Traction is a full-service, creative communications firm providing advertising, design, online, social media, brand activation and other marketing services to companies from a wide range of industry sectors. Since 1995 we have earned a reputation for strategic thinking, creative excellence and forming strong relationships with clients and suppliers. We are independently-owned, and located in the heart of Yaletown in Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit http://www.tractioncreative.com

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ManageEngine Supports Multiple Business Units with Private Social Network

Pleasanton, California (PRWEB) November 19, 2012

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the support for multiple domains in ITPulse, the industrys first private social network built exclusively for IT teams. Now, the IT team at one business unit can collaborate with the IT teams at other business units on a single wall that offers a cascading, real-time display of IT infrastructure health and collaboration.

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1-800-DENTIST Launches WebDirector: Websites, Mobile and Social for One Low Price

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2012

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