Power of social media must not be underestimated…. check it out

Francesc

Chrysler F&##ed Up on Twitter, Fires Social Media Employee
By Play This Magazine
If I say it once, it probably means I will likely have to say it again: Social Media campaigns and strategics that use a companies brand should always use internal resources. Chrysler has made another fine example of why it’s important to have the proper tools, and proper human resources to manage your brands social media. Today an employee of New Media Strategies (NMS) that managed Chrysler’s Twitter feed produced the following tweet, “chryslerautos: I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the#motorcity and yet no one here knows how to fucking drive” [Retweeted Source].

Hat off for these brave men

Francesc

Outpouring of Tears and Prayers for Japan’s Heroes: The Fukushima 50
By ABC News
“My dad went to the Nuclear Plant. I never heard my mother cry so hard. People at the plant are struggling, sacrificing themselves to protect you. Please dad come back alive,” read a tweet by Twitter user @nekkonekonyaa.

“My husband is working knowing he could be radiated,” said one woman. He told her via email, “Please continue to live well. I cannot be home for awhile.”

FXCM and Gain Capital (Forex.com) Q4 results - Lessons Learned
By LeapRate
Now that both Gain Capital and FXCM have announced their final results for 2010 (as well as recent results releases and announcements by others such as IG Group, London Capital Group, and FxPro), what exactly have we learned about these firms, and the overall state of the global Forex market?

A few observations:
1) It is possible for a retail Forex broker to build up a significant institutional business.
2) The “Wall Street” types really do not (yet) understand this industry.
3) Growth has slowed, but is still there.

Now, for the details……

Joe Ingles, player of the FC. Barcelona basketball team (current champion of the European League) surprised everyone in a training session this week when he scored an amazing shot with a rugby ball from middle court.

The players were about to shoot a video to promote the game French USAP rugby team is going to play in Barcelona’s Olimpic Stadium April 9th 2011.

Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais (French) or Unió Esportiva Arlequins de Perpinyà (Catalan), generally abbreviated as USAP in both languages, is a French rugby union club that plays in the city of Perpignan in Pyrénées-Orientales. The club currently competes in the Top 14, the top level of the French league system. USAP finished their most recent season of 2009–10 in first on the Top 14 table, but lost in the championship final to Clermont. The club wears the Catalan red and gold colours.

Why is that?

Perpignan is a commune and the capital of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Perpignan was the capital of the former province and county of Roussillon (Rosselló in Catalan) of the Aragonese Crown formed by Catalonia, Aragon, Majorca and Valencia along some overseas territories.
In 2008, Perpignan became Capital of Catalan Culture and many street name signs are in both French and Catalan.

We’ve announced the results of the first Forex Best Awards during a brief online ceremony hosted by Maud Gilson and Noemí Jansana.

A total of 7,880 votes were cast since the launching of the survey on February 5th until the closing on February 16 th at 8 pm EST / February 17th at 01:00 FMT. The nominees of the twelve categories had been selected by the FXstreet.com contents team for their quality and popularity on the website. A total of more than 35 pieces of content as well as 60 different contributors had been chosen. The list was then submitted to popular vote to determinate the winner of each category.

Read the winners list in the official press release.

All the nominees and more details about the online announcement: download the presentation.

Interesting article about Google’s problems to fight spam at their search lists

I agree that SEO malpractices are spoiling search engines searches… we perfectly know that in Forex!

Francesc

Desperately Seeking Search
Internet search is broken.
By Creditwritedowns.com
Battered by spammers, content farms and black hat optimizers, the typical Internet search is a horrible mess. Try basic search terms like “washing machine”. Or try a term relevant to this site like “Finance Blog”. What you get is a bunch of tricksters who have gamed the search engines to bring their clearly less relevant sites to the top of the pile. You as the user have to wade through these sites, hoping to find something remotely relevant to your search. Many give up in frustration. And while this situation is most acute at Google because their large search market share makes them a target for these shenanigans, the situation is better at Bing/Yahoo, but pretty much the same.

Hi everyone

After reaching new all-time highs in November, December and January were months of a small consolidation, eventhough the network overall reached new all-time highs in January thanks that main sites kept their numbers and forexstreet.net Social site helped somehow with its fast growth.

FXstreet Network broke November’s high of 9,059,080 page views to touch 9,148,975 in January 2011.

As I highlighted here in November 2010 when the network touched new all-time highs, I must comment the extraordinary performance of FXstreet Mobile that is at a brisk to touch 1M page views.

Francesc

FXstreet.com English Site Traffic Numbers: January 2011 vs. January 2010
2,122,023 Visits
Previous: 1,889,725 (+12.29%)
532,353 Absolute Unique Visitors
Previous: 497,613 (+6.98%)
6,973,004 Pageviews
Previous: 5,528,921 (+26.12%)
3.29 Average Pageviews
Previous: 2.93 (+12.31%)
00:07:02 Time on Site
Previous: 00:06:39 (+5.77%)

Funny

View it all here: http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/page/1

Francesc

Hi everyone

Just a few days ago I made a post here explaining that FXstreet’s CAG (Currencies At A Glance) had broken in both January 4th and 5th the 49k level to reach a new all-time high of 49,795 and 49,521 the next day. The 50k level was about to be taken.

Well, less than a week after, on Monday January 10th the level was taken to touch a new high of 51,920. The day after, CAG managed to remain above 50k to touch 50,081.

Francesc

Two thumbs up for this guys of Tipp-EX and this interactive campaign they made “A Hunter shoots a Bear“.

Type in some words… It will make you laugh

Nice job guys

Francesc